How's the roof attached?

Unless its reinforced I might want to be in a wood structure. The wood tends to bow and give and bend back and forth in the wind. The brick/cinder blocks they stay and stay, until they dont.

+1

The main challenge for buildings isn't absorbing the blowing of the wind, it's dealing with the suction.

Ain't fluff open, an hour to find a pack of smokes... Bs

We have to stay out on patrol as per state police, and I can't even get a coffee....bs

wawa's closed?

Everything...wawas started the closures

damn, you know it's serious when wawa closes...

the dunkin across the street is open, but I'm up in Essex County

Nah im down the shore, I was shocked as hell to see wawa closed, I've never seen then closed before. Wawa in lbi was closed yesterday, but this is mainland

wind and rain picking up here, although the pizza shop is still delivering, lol

Its over, I died about 3 times. No one knows if lbi still exists, the only bridge going over is closed until dot inspection

Hope everyone else made out ok, it was like a war zone last night

Mother Nature's Irene Division FS'd the NE FTW! NE powerless to CS.

Irene barely touched Baltimore.. a few downed trees but that's pretty much it.

it was fun and i kike the winds 100 mph

Connecticut shoreline got hit pretty hard. The storm came in at high tide. There are over 25 homes that have been destroyed a couple ppl dead and 3 missing. Not to mention about 750k homes without power.

idk if its the same 3 your talking about but a couple guys decided to ride a canoe down the flooding river in my city and when they hit a bridge they went over and disappeared with the current. as of 8pm they hadnt been found afaik.

http://i1090.photobucket.com/...i368/painoftse/photo5.jpg

the bridge they got lost under is in the backround of that pic.

That's one of them, btw they found his body late last night , the other 2 are at the shore. West haven is destroyed.

i heard they were looting in west haven. cant say im suprised.

So what ended up happening with the hurricane? I thought it hit yesterday IDK I wasn't watching the news cuz i'm in Texas and we where praying it would hit here so we could get some rain. Atleast in central Texas we where :-P

Problem in New England is the age of many of the homes means they're built well below base flood elevations (term we used in cat adjusting when doing floods). I'd venture to guess almost all of those houses currently flooding are well below BFEs. But those that are total losses can only be rebuilt above the flood zone BFEs so they'll probably be elevated in the future.

Not surprised some idiots out in a canoe. I remember people taking inner tubes down a creek near a childhood home in West Harford. Every time there was a bad rain storm they would come tubing down the creek as it swelled up to 2-3x it's usual depths.

still without power and landline phones here

of course my office has power, lol

Storm of the century made landfall 10 miles from my house. I lost two classmates and two neighbors, three from drowning and one from a heartattack. Lost a house as well, though thankfully not the one we were living in. Also lost any and all fear of storms that night.

Nope, being a Florida boy I know when to get the hell out of dodge. Got the hell out of Ivan's way the year before Katrina came and redefined what hurricane damage looks like.

I was on the Bolivar Pennisula on a business trip shortly before Ivan hit.

Was amazed at the devestation there ... nothing remained of the houses we were staying in or thinking of investing in.

The communities of vacation cottages were completely gone.

Thought that was the worst, but that was before Katrina. I hope we never have to experience one like that again.

Just got off the beach, had a few minutes from my last call which was a beach house. Almost a 13 foot erosion cliff, and the current beach is about 6 feet wide, it was about 300 feet wide :(

Lost our house in the storm. Lived in an area of town that NEVER flooded in the last 100 years. Storm hit, water came up and debris clogged the rivers... When the bridges let go it released a 27 foot tall "wave" that ended up bringing about 8 feet of water over a 3 mile stretch... That stayed for 4-5 hours. About 70 homes ruined total.

what state was this medic? thats nuts.

Vermont