Bring it on, Irene! I'm prepared for this hurricane...

[Wahoo]

Fridge stocked with Zima, cans of Spam and kippered herring ready to open with my P-38,...I'm in survival mode!

[ECO]

I'm getting 2 30 packs of beer and riding the f-er out in style. Actually in style would be flying west to Vegas but my funds are limited so just two very cheap 30 packs.

[Wahoo]

Gratefully, Irene--at the moment over Atlantic Beach, NC--has weakened to a category 1 and is taking a slightly more north-easterly turn. As she continues up the coast, the coastal areas will still take a pounding, with a diminished impact farther inland. The worst of it here in the DC area is expected this evening and tonight.

It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss the destructive potential of a category 1 hurricane, so I'm still preparing for it. Just threw my lawn furniture and trash cans into the swimming pool so they won't become flying objects when the wind gusts pick up.

Don't know what I'm going to do with all this Zima, though. Use it to clean my car bumpers, I guess.

[Wahoo]

Well, Hurricane Irene has arrived in toothless, slack-jawed, road-kill northern Va. And as if magnitude 4.9 earthquates (and an ongoing series of magnitude 4 aftershocks) and hurricanes aren't enuf to worry about, now the weather service is announcing warnings for the increasing possibility of Irene-spawned tornadoes inland as she churns her way up the coast! A category 1 hurricane I can deal with, but the increasing likelihood of sporadic tornadoes has caused my pucker factor to spike! Low-level hurricanes are bad, but tornadoes don't fcuk around!

I hope I remembered to pay my life insurance premium...

[Wahoo]

A good thing Our President and First Lady are safely ensconced in Martha's Vineyard, with no plans to cut their most recent lavish vacation short to return to the White House.

[Wahoo]

It's picking up, with the worst to come over the next 12 hours. I've already gone thru a 12-pack of brew and a half pint of bourbon. If this keeps up much longer, I'll be reduced to drinking isopropl rubbing alcohol and Brut and huffing aerosol paint.

[Wahoo]

Shyt! While I was picking up necessities like beer and whole milk (for coffee) at the grocery store, I didn't even think to stock up on snacks like chips and salsa or pork rinds or beef jerky or Snickers Ice Cream Bars (oh God, they're so good!). Well, I've got pancake mix and eggs and Aunt Jimima maple syrup, so maybe I'll cook up a mess of pancakes before the power goes out to tide me over.

[ECO]

Odd, my post from my phone did not show up! Someone secured my boat in RI....figured that out after a 1 hour round trip.....helped a neighbor secure his boat,,,,,made a safe house for my plants.......everything is 95% ready for a storm!

9PM and we only have heavy rain and noooo wind, humid as fuc like last night. Want to wake up at 6 for the heavy storm surges on the bay to see if my boat and the docks in RI float away.

[ECO]

Is it hitting you yet? I just got done helping my neighbor pull his boat and now it's a one hour count down until dark to secure my property. Some nice person secured my boat in ri found out after driving a hour to check on it. Big tidal surges in 12 hours when high tide rolls in.

[ECO]

My last post was still stuck in my phone.........odd!

[ECO]

Blowing like a whore in a massage parlor here....got to go rescue my off brand hobie cat before it blows away

[Wahoo]

Hey, I think I know her!

A band of rain and wind is still circulating around the DC region, but otherwise Irene is out of the Delmarva and now moving thru Nu Yawk and New England. I was lucky...didn't even lose electricity, though many this morning are without power. Trees uprooting and bringing down power lines (due to the ground being super-saturated) will likely keep the power crews busy throughout the day. Williamsburg--an hour's drive inland from Virginia Beach--took a pounding...more than 8 inches of rain and 76-mph wind gusts.

On the whole, we can be thankful because if Irene (while still a powerful category 1 hurricane roughly the size of Europe) hadn't weakened as she moved up the coast, it could have been much much worse.

Time for a celebratory beer breakfast!

[Wahoo]

It's noon and the sun is shining and there's a chorus of treefrogs are croaking...a good sign.

[ECO]

Lost power last night around 7 pm, not exactly sure since I had a few cocktails and enough beer to water an army. A tree has been down over a powerline blocking one of the two routes away from my house. The other route has all sorts of trees over the power lines as well and nObody is making an effort to clear them. The powers to be say that we will have power in a few days or maybe as late as the weekend. Oh well, I can bathe in my lake, got Plenty of warm beer and don't need heat or AC so everything is irie.

[Wahoo]

Eco, if you might not get power till the weekend, you'd better do something with the heads in the fridge before they smell up the place. I'm just saying.

[ECO]

My frig and deep freezer are both empty, the food is a total loss. The heads did not survive but I gave them away to some hungry people on my ward I mean my street. I'm now chilling on my boat which has power and that means cold beer....but no women...

Sorry for not following up in other threads since I have limited Internet time and not much for battery juice going all should be normal when I ge proper power