So far it hasn't even been as bad as a NorEaster.

/wow .... I didn't know grills could fly

Floridians call it dew.

As someone who is in NY right now...this weather sucks.

Yeah, the weather sucks, but that's about all.

Still hitting Nokia Theatre tonight to see Carcass.

It's some heavy rain. I pretty much know how to deal with it: stay inside, or get an umbrella, or go out and get wet. Seeing as I don't own an umbrella, it's 1 or 3. I'm not feeling well, anyway, so... I'm just glad the storm will kill that humidity. It was brutal this morning.

It should 'hit' us tomorrow. I put the lawn mower in my shed and picked up the loose items around my house. They're forcasting 80 kph winds which is a nice strong noreaster.

I just hope it doesn't blow down my pool fence. But that would be an excuse to borrow my friends portable lumber mill. Blow baby blow!

Fill up your bathtubs, stock up on water and nonperishable food, get batteries for flashlights and portable radios, fill up your cars now.

Remember the bathtub water? It's to flush your toilets with, by the way.

AirForceVet: Fill up your bathtubs, stock up on water and nonperishable food, get batteries for flashlights and portable radios, fill up your cars now.

Don't forget ammunition, though you should have that on hand anyway.

I got soaked here in Virginia by it today. We got 7 inches of rain in just 6 hours. Just as a comparison our average rainfall total for the entire month of September is 3 inches. We got double the month's worth of rain in just 6 hours.

Light fog.

Meh, we get this all the time, usually at the exact moment I fire up the grill.

Channel 4, on the leading edge of local news....reprinting Red Cross press releases word for word.

So it's raining. Big deal.

Letmeburyem:
So it's raining. Big deal.

^ THIS

Nothing like jumping in the pool with a bottle during a good hurricane.

Last night got bad enough. Women were taking off their heel shoes and walking around Bleeker street barefoot. Yech.

I'm staying in tonight.

Fark New Yorkers. When the Cloverfield beast ripped the head off the Statue of Liberty and flung it down the street, did NY'ers run? No, they stood around and took pictures. They won't listen to good advice.

try a northern michigan alberta clipper for some real fun!

LOL

I didn't know it was coming (no TV, just iPhone for weather while cable's installed in my new apartment in Crown Heights). Unthinkingly, the GF and I went to Ikea to get some shelves for our apartments.... we got soaked.

But it was nice snuggling on the bus though.

I "lived" on LI until 1990, so I was around for two pretty big 'canes. We had these big poplar trees on one side of the house that slapped the side of the house over and over throughout the storm. It was like living in Madonna's butt.

Did it wash the smell out of Jersey?

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I did not like seeing the latest projections on Ike having it headed right at New Orleans. Granted, it hasn't even reached Cuba yet, but it looks pretty nasty.

Finally, scum-free streets!

Rat: Did it wash the smell out of Jersey?

No, Jersey just gets a wet dog smell after it rains.

Just raining right now.

It's farking rain.

I love it. It hasn't rained in weeks, and thank farking Jeebus that the humidity and the temperature are now way down.


/I for one welcome our new raindrop overlords

It's raining pretty farking hard here in coastal CT, coming down in sheets and it's windy but not nearly bad enough for the fuss the news is putting up.

It reminds me of when it snows around here and WNBC and everyone has a weather news orgasm about it (STORM WATCH!!1!) while people in North Dakota laugh at us.

Just rained all day down here in Va. Biggest issue is going to be standing water in the roads trying to get to the pub tonight.

Lord Snoopy's G.P.E.H you, my hilarious friend, owe me a key board. Madonnas butt indeed.

Rat: Did it wash the smellTurbos/Guidos out of Jersey?

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FTFY

This is a typical summer storm. The only thing "tropical storm" about it is the humidity.

As a current New Yorker and former Floridian...I thought it was pretty nice outside today - a "slight" downpour.

Be fair. If Floridians had to deal with the kind of snow fall NY gets every winter, they'd be shiatting their pants.

As a Florida native ( go ahead Nothern folks and insert snide remark here ) my question is why do hurricanes get so much attention and those ass kickin' NorEasters you get up there barely get any coverage? I was in Pa. a couple of years ago and DAMN that was a kick ass storm. My guess is it's better to be in a storm where it's warm and when it's ball frostin' cold.

Bah. Our thunderstorms, especially the ones that form in the afternoon during summer, can be waaaaay nastier than Hanna. Crazy lightning, flash floods, microbursts, tornadoes, you name it.

antialias: Be fair. If Floridians had to deal with the kind of snow fall NY gets every winter, they'd be shiatting their pants.

True, but if New Yorkers had to deal with Florida drivers for, oh, say, more than ten minutes they'd be dead.

Florida Happens:

antialias: Be fair. If Floridians had to deal with the kind an inch of snow fall NY gets every winter, they'd be shiatting their pants.

ftfy

Tequila and fig newtons, at a ration of 1:2.

beerrun: Meh, we get this all the time, usually at the exact moment I fire up the grill.

same scene - different play / my wife always has 27,000 honey-do projects exactly at kickoff.

Inazuma: It's farking rain.

I love it. It hasn't rained in weeks, and thank farking Jeebus that the humidity and the temperature are now way down.

/I for one welcome our new raindrop overlords

Ugh it's still humid as all hell by me.

Tornadoes, though, are flippin' scary. I was in DC at a board meeting all day and it was just a constant rain with some wind at the end. But a storm with a tornado - that you take seriously. Hello, basement! Toot sweet!

serpent_sky: I'm just glad the storm will kill that humidity. It was brutal this morning.

This. Oh my god, this. We weren't breathing air these last two days, we were breathing soup. Also, despite what the headline says, no thunder and lightning. Just lots and lots of rain. The wind really hasn't even been much to write home about.

Byno - just when I think Fark has failed me you come back with that pic.

Needed a good laugh
Got it
Appreciative

antialias: No kidding. As a former resident of Rochester & Syracuse, I think their hearts would explode from shock after some of the snowfall i've been in.

After today, i'd rather take the snow than being in northern VA, where we got 7 farking inches of rain in 5-6 hours that also beat the crap out of a couple of my tomato plants.

Well, Hanna gave us some tasty waves here in Jax Beach the past couple of days. I worked on my mad bodyboarding skilz. I just came in off the deck overlooking the ocean, enjoying my pipe and a copy of Wall Street Journal. Watched the beach patrol shining its lights in the waves. I guess someone is missing. We lost a New York babe in the surf last week during Fay. The sea taketh away...

Yeh, NY'ers...board up your apartment windows and stay out of buildings because they might collapse.

/in NY apartment

any other new yorkers still planning on going out tonight?

Walker: I got soaked here in Virginia by it today. We got 7 inches of rain in just 6 hours. Just as a comparison our average rainfall total for the entire month of September is 3 inches. We got double the month's worth of rain in just 6 hours.

Here in Cocoa Beach, FL a couple of weeks ago, Fay dumped 25 inches of rain in two days.
The year's total up until then was 17 inches.

I lived in Chicago for 35 years, and I still wouldn't trade it for the hellish winters.

cpw49684: try a northern michigan alberta clipper for some real fun!

I always wondered why they call it an Alberta Clipper. Alberta is inland, so it's not a ship reference. And before you get to Michigan you have to travel through 3 provinces. Why don't you call it an Ontario Clipper? Believe me, nothing good ever came out of Ontario.

Alberta's weather phenomenon is the Chinook. It can take the temp from -10 to +55 in 6 hours.

beaverfetus: any other new yorkers still planning on going out tonight?

I went out to eat and ran a few errands. It's not exactly "hunker down" weather out there. We had worse storms than this a few weeks ago.

Zagloba: Yeah, the weather sucks, but that's about all.

Still hitting Nokia Theatre tonight to see Carcass.

I hope the bands can leave NY safely and get up to Montreal for the show tomorrow night.