Hurricane Irene

Currently getting hammered here in Bristol Connecticut, mostly by heavy rains. Wind not so bad so far. 200 plus thousand out of power. So, far no water in my house and audio gear is unplugged and placed off the floor.
I think another 6 > 10 hours and we'll be through the worst of it. Mother nature is truely impressive at times.

Glad you left safely on Thursday, Joe. My sister's family also left then, as the town ordered everyone out by midnight. Hopefully, you didn't have any excitement in Cinnaminson.

Frank Pittaluga's Shell station? As a kid I used to call him Frank "Spit a luga". The Ocean View Wawa you also mentioned - if you called it "offshore" as we do, it would sound bass ackwards to anyone not from these parts, as they would (rightly) assume offshore means out in the ocean.

So far, this has been more or less a complete non-event here. I'm thankful to not have lost power. It rained OK in the early evening, but that seemed to be the height of things. 5.5" of rain in Philadelphia over the course of many hours. Not sure what part of town that number comes from, but I can't believe I got that here. We got over 4" last weekend, and 2" several times in the week or so prior to that - all of them in very order. This was not a bad storm at all. I WAS scared last Thursday night, the lightning was hellacious. In this, the wettest August here on record, most of the storms I've seen over the past two weeks made this look like a pretty nice day.

Thankfully, the overall damage at the shore is minimal, if anything. Looking forward to tomorrow, and starting what should be an absolutely beautiful week there.

FUNNY story, I was just watching the local (Philadelphia) news, and they obviously have a lot of their team down the shore. The beachfront house the 6 ABC reporter was standing in front of in Goldeneraguy's hometown of Ventnor had its lawn's sprinkler system come on about 10 minutes ago. You can't make this stuff up!!!

Here's hoping you fellows north of us don't see anything of note, either...

Trejela,

Priceless regarding the sprinklers. Truth is stranger than fiction, and funnier too. Glad to see everything's ok in your neck of the woods.

Trelja-

Sprinklers? Good one!! I did mean Frank's Shell. Thursday people acting like that was the only gas around. Dude - drive 10 miles "offshore" and there were no lines.

I think the quake was wilder than the storm turned about to be. We did get 7+ inches of rain, not sure about Seal Isle yet. I was in the 2nd floor living room when it started shaking. The dog freaked out, we went outside (along with everyone else).

Exciting week none-the-less. Earthquake, people getting arrested on the beach, 4 really sketchy people doing the dine-and-dash at the Red Sky Cafe, and topped off with a hurricane.

Cape May County is still closed up though. Glad everybody is OK

Power came back here in W. Hartford @ about 8 after 10 hrs down. A gallon or so of water in the basement last night but I found the problem & fixed it so we are all set here.