Getting slammed with rain and wicked winds just now - 11pm EDT in NorthWestern Virginia.
Basement is flooded.
Power flickering.
What's weird is I'm still receiving DISH transmission - the damn thing usually goes out on a sunny day!...strange.

I was walking around when a 2x4 hit me in the head, killing me instantly. This kind of thing never happened before all this global warming started up.

PfizerX
Funny, I grew up in Ithaca and we used to drive to the Arnot Mall because it had "better stores."
Of course, back then, it did.

ITS COMIN' RIGHT FOR US!

It's been a little rainy today.

Nanny Nanny Boo Boo from Alabama.

It's a beautiful night here, clear sky, lightly cool... perfect early fall evening.

I have a BUNCH of family up there in the DC area. I'm sure to get a bunch of whiney emails tomorrow and the next day about the rain.

Dear idiots:

You live next to the OCEAN! Hurricanes happen with frequency almost EVERY YEAR. It's only a matter of time before you get hit, again.

Save your farking stories, I don't care.

It rained here in Missouri.

We're getting the boards out. Ain't no hurricane going to get me.

I do live in a basement.

But, you never know.

Oh, btw...

Love Texas

Northern VA, and so far we've had lots of wind and rain, but nothing's come down in my yard yet. Suffered about five power hits that have knocked me offline so far, including one just as I was calling up FARK here. Crossing my fingers and hoping the power doesn't go out completely.

oh the memories!

first i woke up, and there was like this thing on tv, and it was like weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!...

then there was this reporter and it was like weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

vote for me if ya got the guts

I run a store called Tuesday Morning in harrisonburg VA, before the storm hit, we had people flooding the store. But they werent buying batteries or candles, we sold lamps, stuffed animals, a vase, crystal bowls. One lady came in with her 8 week old, and 3 year old, who got blown over by the wind just outside the door, they bought a stuffed horse. WTF, I think I'll risk my kids lives for a stuffed animal.

"How high's the water momma?"

RIP

So far, this has been pretty disappointing up here in Southern Ontario.

Some light drizzle, hardly any wind.

I was hoping to see some serious disruption, such as when we had that power outage a few weeks back.

Well, at least it won't be like Hurricane Hazel in 1954. That was some mean-ass storm.

Oh well, I suppose the night is young...

it is freezing and massively windy here in san diego..

My dads house waas just totalled in Virginia Beach. heres a nice pic of what did it!

I remember once that a nasty hurricane came by RI many moons ago. I was inside my house looking outside at the trees and I saw a small bird trying to fly against the wind. It LITERALLY was standing still then it's little wings failed and I saw it zip away with the wind. Poor bugger.

I survived Iniki..oh yeah

Make that six power hits.

Glad it didn't come this-a-ways.

/enjoying the nice weather here in Miami

You don't care, boo-farkin'-hoo for us in VA. It's not a natural disaster, or at all worthy of mention, until it happens to you, right?

Here's hoping you get 17 inches of rain in 9 hours with 90%+ ground saturation where you live. Or a tornado... spawned from a tropical storm or not, where your head might actually be pierced by the mythical, flying two-by-four. Or a blizzard where you can't get out to buy beer for a week. Or an earthquake, where you might be crushed on your way home from work as you travel under an overpass, or while you sleep when your beach-side highrise pancakes.

Then, if you're not dead (2x4 or pancake), you'll come to fark.com and biatch about the hardship that's been forced upon you by God or Mother Nature or whatever scapegoat you contrive to justify your inconvenience.

What-the-fark-ever. Have the ability to relate. Be an adult.

Stuck in my apartment in Baltimore listening to Phish but no herbal remedy to help pass the time :-(

Here in Baltimore County (directly north of the city). Power is fluctuating on and off (just went out for about 30 seconds, then came back on). My network (2 Linux boxen, wireless router and cable modem) are on UPS and i'm online with my iBook.

The wind is nucking FUTS. The gusts are insane, they just tore off a major root branch of a tree next door.

This is fun. Bring it on!

so far this isnt a hurricane, i live outside baltimore and i know the full force hasnt hit yet, but i just went for a run at 1145. and if i can run against the wind, uphill, in just sneakers and swimming trunks then this "hurricane" aint $hit

PFIZERX

Kicked out of the mall for opening a door? That is f*ed up. The food court was always terribly crappy from what I remember. But I do recall buying many a pair of shoes from Mr. Panosians....ah..the memories... Thank God, I never made it to Lums....eew...

Whittlemonkey- What do you think about the winds now? They sure have picked up here in Ellicott City the past 15 minutes.

whittlemonkey so, for future reference, all weather reports must be in regards to your current position. so if a typhoon hits japan, but it's sunny in baltimore, it's not a typhoon.

Joey JoJo Junior Shabadoo are you suggesting that since hundreds of thousands of people had to leave their homes due to major flooding, they were silly to try to stock up on bread and milk?

4 inches of rain so far and counting

Whittlemonkey: Actually, the storm has been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm.

There are some (possibly drunk) morons standing on the roof of the building across the street from mine. The building is about 20 stories tall. They are getting their jollies by getting blown around the roof of the building, screaming at the top of their lungs. I called the security officer of that building about 20 minutes ago but he appears to have done nothing. I just called the non-emergency number for the police. I'm sure that it is all in good fun, but my wife and I are trying to sleep!!!

Now I can't sleep...guess I'll surf the web instead :-(

Hope this works, first time linking jpeg.

View from where I work, no Hurricane here.

I went to a bar and picked up a girl named Isabella.
Yes, Isabella is really blowing!!!

I'm on the lake in Granbury, TX but all throughout the DFW area it poured this afternoon. The company I work for will be sending restoration crews out to all of you in the hurricane's path who've sustained damage.

Heavy rain and winds on and off in Frederick, Md, but power has remained on.

The only casualty to report is a kamikaze goldfinch that flew into my screen door earlier in the day.

I live in Los Angeles. It was 80 degrees and sunny. I drove up and down Ventura Blvd. in a convertible. Hey, East Coast, have fun with that little hurricane.

The fact that so many FARKers place such emphasis on booze and getting drunk so frequently in their posts is just pathetic.

Do you still think you're in high school, bragging?

Oh, and York, PA...pretty windy, rain but not even as heavy as the biatch-storms we had all summer.

ExParrott

Keep posting about Frederick. I still have family there.

I remember hurricane Agnes well; she was my first hurricane. As far as I know, you can still see the waterline marks in Ellicott City from that one.

Drop by Jennifers sometime and drink a Guiness for me.

With Evil Homers permission, of course. :)

PT Cruisers suck.

I'm sitting here at work because most of the night shift people didn't make it in and my workplace is 7x24. About an hour ago we lost commercial power and the generator kicked in. About a half-hour later, there was a series of bright red flashes in the sky, accompanied by eerie ka-thunk sounds, accompanied by one of the circuits in my office biting the dust. We still have phones, emergency lights, PCs, and the network up, but that's about it.

Does anyone have any guesses as to what the flash/ka-thunk thing was?

5OClock:

crotchety???

Swamp Pup, et al....

Hope all is relatively well. Hugo in 1989 took out my home town for the most part (Sumter, SC)...I'm feelin ya.

And please, have some tact, those of you who've never been in a hurricane? It most certainly isn't funny to have your house torn down and/or flooded.

Tidbits for the uneducated: Hugo spawned so many tornadoes, the local Air Force base stopped counting them as they couldn't keep track on their radar. It levelled the peach orchard across the street, yet left my parents single-wide untouched. The pine trees that made it through all grow at an angle now, to this day. My folks were without power for 2 weeks and without water for 10 days.

Isabel apparently isn't that intense, but it still isn't funny to those stuck in it...please have a heart.

/South Carolina

..and here I live a good 5 hours from the coast and it's a steady wind here with off and on drizzle. Hope all you folks down east are doing alright.

I don't know if Ohio is getting rain because of that or just because it's raining. I didn't notice until after I was drunk. All that I know is that I tried to walk around in the rain with a bean burrito and it's a little cold now but I'm still going to eat it.

drwiii,

I know that pic!!!

That's in Myrtle Beach, SC. We go down there to fly kites and look for shells, about a mile from where that tornado is sitting.

HipShot:
Will do! I can certainly fit that Guiness on the to-do list.

The Great Frederick Fair is this week. So whether to take down the ferris wheel at the fairgrounds was a hot topic. It was left up. No reports of it rolling down Market St -- yet.

Here in Harrisonburg, VA, my friend Rob and I got drunk and ran naked through the storm. Probably will seem like a good idea in a couple of weeks.

Absolutely true.

ExParrott:
Thanks!

The ground under the ferris wheel is an issue, I'm sure. A little softening, a little wind, then down town bound. I'm sure you meant Patrick St., btw. It may end up on the Golden Mile.

Just keep it away from Detrick!

Stay safe. I'm glued to the radar. Remember, Agnes was a tropical storm when she caused all the flooding.