I live right on the beach in NJ, we are making plans to board up the house and evacuate and all that. The grocery stores around here have been PACKED since yesterday.

HazMat

United States17077 Posts

August 26 2011 02:33 GMT

#26

Took me a while to realize why Target was PACKED.
<-- Northern Virginia

StyLeD

United States2965 Posts

August 26 2011 02:55 GMT

#27

Here in DC some of my college mates just went shopping to store up on food. I'm hoping we can stay in our dorms.

TwoToneTerran

United States8841 Posts

August 26 2011 02:57 GMT

#28

As a Gulf Coast resident, my first thought was "Cat 2? That it?"

Steveh

United States112 Posts

August 26 2011 02:57 GMT

#29

mandatory evacuation for my county in jersey (near shore)

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i'll be staying put.

RandomAccount#49059

United States2140 Posts

August 26 2011 03:44 GMT

#30

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kOre

Canada3642 Posts

August 26 2011 03:47 GMT

#31

Holy shit ... I really hope everyone at MLG this weekend will be okay! Be safe everyone and put your safety ahead of the gaming!

Enki

United States2548 Posts

August 26 2011 03:48 GMT

#32

I was worried abou it a couple of days ago since I was pretty far into that cone (Live on GA coast).
Happy to see it head away though, looks like at most we will be getting some bands coming in and alot of rain.

Hope it doesnt impact MLG that much T_T

Nothingtosay

United States875 Posts

August 26 2011 03:58 GMT

#33

Well I'm certainly fucked. I'm right between DC and Baltimore hurricanes always knock my power out ( and scare the scrap out of me). I"ll catch up on some reading this weekend and make sure to charge my psp before hand.

On August 26 2011 11:00 Chargelot wrote:
Remember the damage caused by the earthquake?

It'll be like that.
Just more wet.

Do you live on the eastern seaboard? Everytime we have a major hurricane thousands of dollars of damage per country occurs easily.

EDIT: Also every time people don't evacuate someone dies without fail.

JasonX

Korea (South)90 Posts

August 26 2011 04:03 GMT

#34

Good luck to all MLG contestants!!

Fly safe =(

acgFork

Canada397 Posts

August 26 2011 04:05 GMT

#35

gl hf and most importantly: dd

Muir

United States9 Posts

August 26 2011 04:11 GMT

#36

Being from Houston and dealing with hurricanes nearly every year this doesn't really scare me, although i do wish everyone in its path GL.

Corvette

United States433 Posts

August 26 2011 04:42 GMT

#37

Well living in FL im glad it moved east but it sucks that it went back west as it headed north so its gonna run the coast for a couple days

GL to all of those traveling to MLG

Xivsa

United States1009 Posts

August 26 2011 04:57 GMT

#38

On August 26 2011 11:08 Sfydjklm wrote:

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the measures NYC is taking seem quiet extreme. Makes me feel slightly uneasy. But excited.

Yeah, I'm from Brooklyn, NYC, so if the OP is too city-centric, that would be why. I agree that so far, city officials are practically freaking out like only city officials can. Dealing with a metropolitan area of over 8 million people who cannot be easily evacuated even with a slow-moving disaster like Irene is never easy. Like I said, hopefully they will have overworried about it all but we'll see.

Sorter

170 Posts

August 26 2011 05:01 GMT

#39

Good luck to anyone traveling over the next few days, hopefully everyone is okay after the weekend.

Also that first photo is absolutely incredible.

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