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Tropical Storm Irene is making landfall in Puerto Rico tonight. Seems like she might get way stronger as she goes on. If you're anywhere in Florida all the way north to the Carolinas you should pay attention. Irene is headed your way.

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PS3 tag: TipoDLuffy

"...quite possibly the greatest game ever made"

Yep, probably going to hit my sister's house later in the week - she was watching the weather forecasts the whole time she was visiting this weekend. Happens, unfortunately. :\

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Power, water and communications are about 85% restored down here in Puerto Rico. Just saw Irene on the Weather Channel and whoa, can't believe NY is getting some of it too.

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PS3 tag: TipoDLuffy

"...quite possibly the greatest game ever made"

I'm in north-central Connecticut and even people here are preparing for a storm.

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Update:

The storm has mostly passed by this point, there's just some intermittent gusting of wind going around.

In my neighborhood, the storm hasn't done much. We still have electricity, there wasn't all that much rain (though it did basically rain all night last night), and the winds basically resulted in a large amount of leaves strewn all over the place everywhere. We got hit with tropical-storm-speed winds, which is frankly not all that much more than a severe non-tropical storm around here anyway. (We're talking 50+ mph winds, past 60 even.)

Turns out we're among the luckier ones. Over half of Connecticut residents don't have electricity as of right now (outage map for our biggest utility can be seen here), especially those people in the eastern half of the state. In the western parts of the state, closer to the path of Irene's eye, there is or has been quite a lot of flooding. Some places received eight to ten inches of rain in the past day, which is about two months of average rainfall here, according to the meteorologist on NBC Connecticut. There are also lots of reports of flooding (among other things) along the shoreline, as well as downed trees (and resultant property damage and electricity/telephone service interruption) all over the state (and heck, region).

Here is a slideshow of local effects of Irene: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/C...-128478298.html (Includes picture of a road with a chunk washed away!)

Here is a slideshow of the east coast (mainly south of us) before and during the storm: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/weather/stor...-128245093.html (Includes impressive photo of storm clouds looming over downtown Manhattan.)

There has been one death reported due to the storm here in Connecticut, and a total of eight deaths or so. The one here was due to an electrical fire sparked by property damage, I believe.

There were also some tornado touchdowns reported around Delaware, Philly, and Maryland.

My sense is that Irene has caused fewer severe problems (such as life loss and property damage) than originally expected, though it still did a lot, between flooding and high winds. Lesser problems (such as power outages, debris strewn all over the place, and less-disastrously-downed trees) are widespread and cleanup will still take a while.

But hey, it could be worse. I'll count my blessings.

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I live in northern New Jersey, and we got hit pretty hard. My house didn't have power for two days, but I think we were the lucky ones because our electric company told us something like "We hope to get service back to most of our 110,000 customers by Friday" and we got it Monday night. Multiple highways around my area were out of service for at least a day and one of them is still underwater. Also, all those flights got grounded, right?

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Squenix games completed:

FFIII
FFIV
FFVI
FFVII
FFIX
FFX
FF Tactics: Advance 2
Chrono Trigger
Dragon Quest 8
Dragon Quest 11
Super Mario RPG

I'm hearing that the hardest-hit states are Vermont, New York (especially upstate), and New Jersey. This is mainly due to flooding, and mainly to the west of the storm eye's trajectory. Wind damage, on the other hand, has been less in comparison, mainly resulting in downed trees and power lines causing property damage and outages.

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 1st September 2011 02:52

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