http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/g...ml?5-daynl

Hurricane Earl is now a Category 4 storm, and it looks like it's headed straight up the Eastern seaboard of the US.

Who here is getting worried???

If it comes straight up into Long Island, we are totally F*CKED. The last time a major storm hit us was 1985 when hurricane Gloria skimmed the island, and it was only a category 1. Otherwise, in 1932, a category 3 hurricane hit L.I. and caused untold damage & deaths...even though at the time this was all farmland!!!

My house is down by the water...there's a canal across the street. My house is only 5-feet above sea level. Every year we worry that a major storm is going to flood us out, but thank God that we've never experienced anything MAJOR. Now we are looking at each other and quietly making plans to leave if this thing takes a direct path towards us.

Anyone else???

I'm going to Topsail NC in 2 weeks

"hmm"

There are so many fragile places up the coast ~ some of the barrier islands ...

Mach said:

I'm going to Topsail NC in 2 weeks

"hmm"

There are so many fragile places up the coast ~ some of the barrier islands ...

Hopefully by then any damage will have been cleaned up.

Meanwhile, I'm mapquesting driving instructions to get to your hilltop compound. Should I bring my own pillows???

PurpleJedi said:

Mach said:

I'm going to Topsail NC in 2 weeks

"hmm"

There are so many fragile places up the coast ~ some of the barrier islands ...

Hopefully by then any damage will have been cleaned up.

Meanwhile, I'm mapquesting driving instructions to get to your hilltop compound. Should I bring my own pillows???

My house is bout empty ~ all my birdies flew ... you should bring the kids pillows n toys n stuff

Cya soon

Mach said:

PurpleJedi said:

Hopefully by then any damage will have been cleaned up.

Meanwhile, I'm mapquesting driving instructions to get to your hilltop compound. Should I bring my own pillows???

My house is bout empty ~ all my birdies flew ... you should bring the kids pillows n toys n stuff

Cya soon

Actually if this thing does hit, we're going to my parents' place which is in the middle of the island on fairly high ground.

If for whatever reason this thing comes barreling straight through the island, then we're ALL heading out...maybe go upstate or somewhere in Pennsylvania.

PurpleJedi said:

Mach said:

My house is bout empty ~ all my birdies flew ... you should bring the kids pillows n toys n stuff

Cya soon

Actually if this thing does hit, we're going to my parents' place which is in the middle of the island on fairly high ground.

If for whatever reason this thing comes barreling straight through the island, then we're ALL heading out...maybe go upstate or somewhere in Pennsylvania.

Sounds like good plans ~ hope it just passes by

I don't live by an ocean so I'm all good.

any orgers living that way will be safe.

I'm in VA Beach, VA about 3 hours north of Cape Hatteras, NC, where part of the storm's path is projected. Keeping a close watch on things and will prepare for just about anything, but I don't think we are going to get a direct hit. We will probably get a lot of rain and heavy winds, probably some power outages but nothing like Hurricane Isabel in 2003.

A picture of Hurricane Earl taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

^^^^^ Yikes !!

I'm in South Fla, so we are in hurricane mode for five months every year. Preparedness and an evacuation plan is essential.

Stay safe!

what's crazy is that I just saw a scenario on the History Channel about what if a hurricane hit NYC.... it was not a good scenario.

anyway I'm in the path and got family in the path so I am all "shoo" at Earl

Soulsista said:

I'm in VA Beach, VA about 3 hours north of Cape Hatteras, NC, where part of the storm's path is projected. Keeping a close watch on things and will prepare for just about anything, but I don't think we are going to get a direct hit. We will probably get a lot of rain and heavy winds, probably some power outages but nothing like Hurricane Isabel in 2003.

Good luck with it! And stay out of the water...those rip currents are deadly even when the storms are far, far away.

BklynBabe said:

what's crazy is that I just saw a scenario on the History Channel about what if a hurricane hit NYC.... it was not a good scenario.

anyway I'm in the path and got family in the path so I am all "shoo" at Earl

It's been a LOOOOOONG time since NYC saw a hurricane come near...Coney Island lost it's sandbar/barrier island then.

STAY AWAY! STAY AWAY!

Efan said:

A picture of Hurricane Earl taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

WOW!

that is a beautiful photo!!! but frightening

Shoo Earl shoo! I hope not! I'm in Boston Harbor, I do NOT appreciate not being able to take a dip on a 96degree day because of these riptides from Earl.

Puerto Rico

PurpleJedi said:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/g...ml?5-daynl

Hurricane Earl is now a Category 4 storm, and it looks like it's headed straight up the Eastern seaboard of the US.

Who here is getting worried???

If it comes straight up into Long Island, we are totally F*CKED. The last time a major storm hit us was 1985 when hurricane Gloria skimmed the island, and it was only a category 1. Otherwise, in 1932, a category 3 hurricane hit L.I. and caused untold damage & deaths...even though at the time this was all farmland!!!

My house is down by the water...there's a canal across the street. My house is only 5-feet above sea level. Every year we worry that a major storm is going to flood us out, but thank God that we've never experienced anything MAJOR. Now we are looking at each other and quietly making plans to leave if this thing takes a direct path towards us.

Anyone else???

not me. i'm in the landlocked midwest. but i'm sending prayers your way

paintedlady said:

Shoo Earl shoo! I hope not! I'm in Boston Harbor, I do NOT appreciate not being able to take a dip on a 96degree day because of these riptides from Earl.

Puerto Rico

I don't think NYC is directly in its path, but I think they are making a bigger deal out of it than it will be. (I know, shocking for the news, right? ) I wouldn't be surprised if it's just heavy rain by the time it gets up here.

Shorty said:

paintedlady said:

Shoo Earl shoo! I hope not! I'm in Boston Harbor, I do NOT appreciate not being able to take a dip on a 96degree day because of these riptides from Earl.

Puerto Rico

hey lady! stay safe. I'm in NH about an hour from the coast so..prolly just some wind and rain for us. batten down the hatches folx, be safe!

I agree with Jone70, we are too far north and Earl may go off track into the ocean, but the wind is the worst of a hurricane, trees being knocked down causes major damage as you already know. Lets hope we both do not experience too much wind.

OBX evacs started ...

the OBX have some real fragile areas ~ hope she'll hold her own

Mach said:

OBX evacs started ...

the OBX have some real fragile areas ~ hope she'll hold her own

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38877306/

Nope, not this time. They love to come down here to the Gulf though.

Mach said:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38877306/

okay looks like it will just miss my area but hope it won't hit NY/LI

How can you name a fierce hurricane Earl? It sounds like somebody's kind old uncle. You want people to take it seriously and get out of the way, not prepare coffee and cookies for it.

There's a whole wealth of heavy metal band names you could use. "This year Megadeth and Slayer devastated hundreds of houses and flooded half the state". Much more appropriate.

retina said:

How can you name a fierce hurricane Earl? It sounds like somebody's kind old uncle. You want people to take it seriously and get out of the way, not prepare coffee and cookies for it.

There's a whole wealth of heavy metal band names you could use. "This year Megadeth and Slayer devastated hundreds of houses and flooded half the state". Much more appropriate.

The names are chosen by alphabetical format so "Eraser" may have been a better choice than Earl.

paintedlady said:

retina said:

How can you name a fierce hurricane Earl? It sounds like somebody's kind old uncle. You want people to take it seriously and get out of the way, not prepare coffee and cookies for it.

There's a whole wealth of heavy metal band names you could use. "This year Megadeth and Slayer devastated hundreds of houses and flooded half the state". Much more appropriate.

The names are chosen by alphabetical format so "Eraser" may have been a better choice than Earl.

when I think of the name Earl I think of a serial killer for some reason