Hurricane Irene - Page 20

On August 28 2011 23:21 lowkontrast wrote:
I have a couple of questions and I'm hoping someone hear can answer me.

Under normal circumstances, if we use two electricity hogging tools, such as the air conditioner and iron, on my side of the home (includes my room, half the living room, kitchen, and bathroom), the circuit breaker goes out (don't know the proper term), and I have to go to the basement to flip the switch back.

However, the power went out in that exact area (half the living room, kitchen, and bathroom), and I knew it wasn't the circuit breakers, but I checked to make sure; and it wasn't,

But what I'm wondering is: how is it possible for the storm to cause a power outage in only half my house? And is this something that is going to be fixed by the people going around repairing damage from the storm, or is it something that we have to report?

Edit: Guy from upstairs has the same issue.

On August 28 2011 23:56 eZmode wrote:
I live near the center of Brooklyn in New York, and all I can say is nothing happened. I felt as if the storms that passed a couple of weeks ago were worse. I am sure it is way worse by areas closer to water, but in my area, I think people just trolled by the media.

On August 29 2011 00:10 Xivsa wrote:


I'm in the center of Brooklyn as well and branches and trees are down nearby. We'll see later how much damage fallen trees and such caused. People weren't 'trolled' because no evacuation orders were given to such neighborhoods at high-enough elevations like ours. Be glad that the winds weren't as high as feared.

For myself, the sun is peaking out over the clouds now and Irene seems to have passed Brooklyn by. Connecticut and upstate New York are next in line.

On August 29 2011 00:19 eZmode wrote:


Ehh, I just think the people who bought like a week's supply of food got "trolled'. I guess it is because natural disasters almost never hit New York. As my friend said, New Yorkers are spoiled with no natural disasters, so that's probably why people were so afraid. I know that the storm actually did something in areas like Long Island, but in areas like Brooklyn, not much has happened (atleast in my area). Luckily I knew the storm wasn't that big of a deal for where I live and did not go crazy about it.

On August 29 2011 00:25 Xivsa wrote:


The media is just trolling you and you're buying into it. Out of 370k or so NYC residents ordered to leave by Bloomberg and co., nowhere near half actually left their homes. Shelters citywide never filled up. Just because you hear about empty store shelves does not mean every New Yorker went crazy and bought food and water for a month.

On August 29 2011 00:32 3FFA wrote:
Irene is actually a tropical storm. This should be renamed Tropical Storm Irene . Also, I have a tree down that fell from my neighbors back yard into my back yard and a tree that fell from behind my fence line(marker for where our land ends) where there is only woods, no houses for quite a few yards in that direction, and fell so that if the other tree that is currently holding it up breaks/falls/etc. then the tree that already fell will fall completely. Thus it will knock out my fence and the dog run inside of it. The dog run is basically a big metal crate with brick flooring where we put puppies and what not in so that they actually "use the facilities" instead of just digging dirt. The back yard is where we put our dogs out to "use the facilities" since my family breeds dogs. Worst part is, we have no easy access to the tree that fell down in any way. We would have to take a team all the way to the end of the block(6 or so houses down) down a trail to the local pool, have them turn right, and then take themselves and their equipment to the fence or knock down the fence, take them to the back yard, and hope they aren't scared of dogs .

On August 28 2011 22:35 Termit wrote:


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