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To all of our friends on the East coast.

C.

Plus one, C.
Mike

Let us hope that Griffin & Howe, CSMC, NECG, Pintail Point, et al, survive unscathed.

Prayers sent for all the people and pets. Bobby

Pintail Point will most likely get hammered bad by IRENE. I sure hope that the management of Pintail Point picked up all the traps and batteries and have them high and dry. Jent

Irene by-passed us here in Georgia, but even where I am 100 miles from the Atlantic coast, we had some wind and a little rain from feeder bands. I noticed a big pine limb down in a neighbor's driveway on my way home from work.

Even weakened as it is this storm is taking a track through some of the most populated places in our country. We don't think much of a Cat-1 storm in the South, but I doubt New York City is ready for it. Best wishes to any of you in harms way!...Geo

The last time I looked the weather forcast for Hamburg, Pa. (about 110 miles west by the way the crow flies, of the shore area) called for rain starting Sautrday noon, with winds at 11 mph. The storm is moving at 14 mph. Overnight rain with winds picking up to 24 mph, lasting all day Sunday and clearing up Monday.
Here, we have had more rain this month than the total of May, June and no rain in July to speak of. This area has a lot of springs that poke out of the ground after the heavy rains have soaked in, so I'm waiting to see springs all over the place after this.

I do hope that the shore areas are ok. My son told me they were evacuating some of the New Jersey shore area.

It's gonna be a damned mess. All the TV is talking about is New York, New York, New York but the Jersey side is going to get hammered. If the predictions on storm track and intensity hold, you can expect places like Hoboken and Jersey City to look like New Orleans after Katrina, with jonboats being the preferred means of transportation. I would not want to be out by Montauk, either.

It's not a minor storm when NYC decides to stop the subway. That has never happened before. Ever. It will stop at noon tomorrow. Nor have they ever ordered mandatory evacuations, until today.

Here in Maine, we're looking at getting hit starting sometime around noon Sunday, with the storm going about 24 hours or so. We're a bit better off in that we don't have the extensive marshes and lowlands like Jersey, nor do we have big beaches to wash away, nor do we have huge populations close to the water like in and around NYC. We'll lose trees and power lines, and some houses will lose their roofs, but I doubt we'll see flooding like they will further south.

I'm all the way on the west side of the state and we NEED the rain. Wish some of those rain bands had made it this far inland.

We need it badly, too, in east central Ga., but it's not gonna happen from Irene. All I saw today, as I was tending to irrigation in cotton fields, was some thin clouds. Terribly dry. Many farmers along the east coast stand to lose their entire crop of corn. High winds can destroy it in a matter of minutes.

My prayers are that not one life will be lost due to this storm.

SRH