Hello everyone from the East Coast of the USA. I am from the midcoast of Maine waiting for Irene.
We so seldom get hurricanes here, but we are hoping it will be downgraded to a Tropical Storm at the very worst. I remember Gloria 26 years ago and it knocked down plenty of trees and power was out for quite a while. A good northeaster can do the same thing and we have plenty of those.
I hope everyone is well from SC on up the coast to Maine. Batten down the hatches and evacuate if you have too.
RoRo
We had a storm here in the UK early 80s it was was frightening enough but nothing on the scale of what the USA & around the world gets, watching it on TV is frightening enough.
Have to batten down the hatches & hope for the best. (Good Luck)
We did have a sort of storm a few weeks ago I think they call it a -----Riot.
Hello roro,
My wife Alice is still in NY and will hopefully be able to leave on the 30th
to return home.
She sure picked a good month to visit her Dad in NY.
1st there was an earthquake that was felt in NY and now she’s going to have to ride out a hurricane. ;D
Bet she’ll be happy to get back to Meadow Lake in NM. 
I wish all of you on the East Coast well.
Be careful.
Stay safe peoples
Good luck all. I think i seen the videos and pictures of youtube/news. Im very impressionate that if one of you are still alive. I wont like this to happen to anything that i own and i think im feeling bad just to see your life ruined like this. I would just want to kill the water if he was a human. (LOL) Its poor for peoples who will see all their things destroyed.
Omg… (Oh my god) I couldnt resist to say that.
Good luck again to all of you.
Mr.Agent
Greetings from Williamsburg Virginia! We were reasonably fortunate here in that we had Tropical Storm Force conditions. The power went out sometime around midnight, and Dominion Virginia Power managed to get it restored here (where I live) by around 1 p.m. today (Sunday). There hasn’t been a lot of flooding, but there was a lot of debris strewn about on most of the roadways.
Best wishes to those in the Northeast!
It was an interesting week. First the earthquake, then the hurricane. But I got through it OK. I’m on a generator now, so I’ve got to make this quick. Most of the area where I live has no electricity and and many are flooded. I was on the side of the hurricane with very high winds, so we have trees down (was was left from the recent tornadoes), electrical and telephone lines, and debris everywhere. Most schools and businesses are closed tomorrow because it is impossible to drive down the roads because of the debris blocking the roads and or flooding. They estimate it will take at least a week to repair. This could have been a lot worse, so we were very lucky. This week will be a big clean up week! 
SafeSurf,
Where are you in the USA? Where ever you are lucky to have a generator. We have one too, but didn’t have to use it. My brother in NJ and my husband and I on the Midcoast of Maine got very lucky. Not many power outages in our area in Maine, and my brother said he still had electricity. The wind is dying down now and we only got one inch of rain. Our highest gust was 36 mph, but the higher winds did last for quite a while. I guess Irene decide to move West into NH and Vermont. Farther South they had a lot worse weather.
Thank you all for your well wishes.
RoRo
We just had a bit of clouds but today its beautiful.
I’m in Plattsburgh, NY right on Lake Champlain and we had a ton of rain and winds gusting up to maybe 45 mph. We lost power at 3:15 PM Sunday for exactly an hour and when it came back on, the Internet was then down. Later on that evening, the power and the cable both went down and the power stayed off for right at 3 hours. The cable did not come back on so I spent a good amount of time doing the crosswords from the back issues of the local newspaper. The cable, and the Internet with it, did not come back until about 10AM today, Monday.
There isn’t much damage in the neighborhood except for one area. Sunday evening, at the height of the wind and rain, I heard what sounded like 5 or 6 cracks of lightning but there was no flash and no thunder so I had no idea what it had been. About an hour later, a bunch of Police cars showed up and went one house down on the side street bordering the west of our lot. There is a large wooded lot behind this house to the south that is owned by a local Church located one street over to the east. I donned my rain gear and went out to see what the Police were doing and saw that the cracking sounds I had heard were caused by a very large Cottonwood tree that had snapped off about 3 feet up it’s trunk. It had then taken down a very large pine tree near it and the two large trees then took down 5 or 6 smaller trees. The last casualty in the chain was the streetlight pole. The trees were lying completely across the road. The Cottonwood tree was enormous and had been a yearly source of annoyance when it’s thousands of airborne seeds would float down and blanket the surrounding area like snow. I’m not that sad that it’s gone.
I’m attaching some pictures. The first one is the snapped off Cottonwood and the second is of the dam a few blocks away on the Saranac River. The water doesn’t usually flow over it quite so violently.
Second Picture