OT: Earthquake on East Coast

[barrysloate]

Actually you were clear...I read it too quickly. Sorry.

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Actually you were clear...I read it too quickly. Sorry.

Are you near Irene Barry? I just talked to my Dad, I guess there were evacuations two blocks from where he lives. My girlfriend's sister was evacuated and she lives in Brooklyn. I also know that my pops can't go to his office...

[barrysloate]

Some parts of Brooklyn are being evacuated, those areas that are closest to sea level. I'm in Cobble Hill which is not in that danger zone. But we may still get walloped tomorrow, who knows. It's dark right now with intermittent rain. The storm won't be intensifying until during the night. We shall see.

[Matthew H]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Some parts of Brooklyn are being evacuated, those areas that are closest to sea level. I'm in Cobble Hill which is not in that danger zone. But we may still get walloped tomorrow, who knows. It's dark right now with intermittent rain. The storm won't be intensifying until during the night. We shall see.

Board up the windows if you can Barry, I can't convince my Dad to. I do, however; have an unreasonable fear of broken glass, which stems from the Northridge quake of '94.

[barrysloate]

I have storm windows, that's the best I can do. Thanks for the well wishes.

[scooter729]

How are folks faring today? No power for me in Boston now, and we had a lot of water in the basement earlier. Thank God nothing of value was near there, although I may now finally have reason to get rid of about 25,000 (now waterlogged) late 80s commons...

[barrysloate]

Where I live we were very lucky. We had a lot of rain during the night but no flooding. The winds weren't as strong as expected and no trees or large branches came down around here. The rain stopped a while ago and just in the last hour the winds picked up to maybe 30 or 40 MPH gusts. I know some people were flooded but we dodged a bullet.

[bh3443]

Irene's really made a mess all the way up to Cape Cod, but we are in Framingham and got mostly high winds and bursts of heavy rain.

I hope you are ok, Barry, and all our friends up and down the coast.

All my thoughts and prayers go out to you all!

Your Friend,

Bill Hedin

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Some parts of Brooklyn are being evacuated, those areas that are closest to sea level. I'm in Cobble Hill which is not in that danger zone. But we may still get walloped tomorrow, who knows. It's dark right now with intermittent rain. The storm won't be intensifying until during the night. We shall see.