"Live" from the Hurricane Irene Nationals presented by RainX

[HR9121]

It has been busy evening here as I have been trying to secure some things at our house on the river. It is secure for now but not sure how long it will stay that way. The last hour or so it has been getting really rough and the local weather man is saying the worst will not get here until early morning when the eye should pass just to our east. As Doyle was saying the water is rapidly rising and we are expecting 7 to 9 feet of storm surge which will most likely flood our downtown area. Danny I told all them people heading westbound to stop and say hello.lol

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by david ring

Very hard to find one here in CT-had to go to four stores before we found a neat light with 21 LED lbolbs-it can be used with either three AA batteries or plugged in.

Try and find a generator too.

[Geerhead55]

Haven't heard from Bob Rice,,,also in New Bern. Hopefully they're prepared and doing well. Good luck and prayers to all of you out there in the path, from us out here on the west coast.
Danny Durham

[HR9121]

UPDATE- This just in, we are getting our balls kicked in! It has rained and blowed very hard for the last 4 hours and looks like by the radar about 3-4 more before the eye will pass over. We lost power about 2 hours ago but I still have phone service for now. Hold on tight everyone, more later hopefully.

[Kegracing]

Hope all of my NC friends are doing OK so far... looking at the weather channel, storm still have a very low pressure, and tons of rain and wind for "just a cat. 1". The WC just said eye shifted a little east maybe? As wide as the storm is, not sure it will help this late in game.
My inlaws are in Dunn, NC, will check on them in a couple of hours, if I can get in touch.
Prayers sent for all of you.
Wish we could have some of the rain out her in TX... critical drought, and you guys are getting flooded.
Ken

[THE LEGEND]

What up KEG?
Woke up this morning not raining. Very windy though. Looks like it moved just enough east for us not to get hammered. We had lots of rain last night though. May get some later but don't look like it. I know our friends in the Kinston-NewBern areas are getting slammed.
Chip

[freddie tyson]

Hey Chip!How about bringing your chainsaw over__got a few broken pine tree limbs in back yard.

[Mickey Whaley]

No power here for the last 8 hours trees and powerlines down 8 to 10 inches of rain gusts here in kinston up to 70 mph thank god for generators

[THE LEGEND]

Freddie,
Don't have one but you know if I did you could get it .
I got a big Pine tree in the back yard leaning pretty bad. If it don't fall it's gonna have to go soon, at least it's opposite from the shop and house.
Chip

[HR9121]

I thought we had seen the worst of it earlier but the last 2 hours have been brutal. Not sure how much rain we've had but it's alot, I'm sure its over 10 inches by now and have had 2 trees bite the dust in the yard. Talked to my father-in-law a little while ago, he lives on the Trent River side and the water had came up to the roof on his boat house. Only minor damage on our house so far and we're hoping things will start to calm down soon. Looking at the radar it appears they've had a tremendous amount of rain over near Danny and Mickey also.