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Hurricane Irene


Marksnagel

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Well for those of you that are watching the news and seeing a major hurricane about to wander up the east coast of the US, let me assure you that I will keep everyone posted as it progresses so long as we still have power. I live in Durants Neck, NC (google or acme mapper it) and chances are that it will pass right over me. I am one of a few blacksmiths that I know of in this corner of NC but just about 40 miles to the north there is the Tidewater Blacksmiths and a few other groups. We don't have to worry about the anvils blowing away, just the buildings or in my case trees that cover them moving to the next county.
Since I work a lot on the Outter Banks (beach) I may be away from the forge for a while. We tend to lose roads and I will need to help piece things back together. This storm shows no signs of weakening and is predicted to reach a cat 4. It has the potential to do major damage from NC all up the east coast. Keep us all in your prayers and if you yankees happen to see an oak stump float by, grab it, roll it over and see if there is an anvil on the other end. It just might be mine. :P
Keep the faith!

Mark<><

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Keep an eye on the hurricane by going to http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml. When you look on the radar at the eastern most corner of NC and see the highlighted area, look carefully and you just might see me wave. Yea, thats me, the guy chained to his anvil waving like crazy. Short of Divine Intervention, we're going to get spanked. Good thing I float. Maybe being tied to the anvil isn't that good of an idea. :unsure:
The tourists are bailing out like crazy, the locals are boarding up everything and the rest of us are waiting for it to be over to go back in and get the road system up again. The Emergency Management people are saying that we will most likely get at least one new inlet. The Oregon Inlet bridge may or may not fall.
The only thing I need to be fully ready is a broken vacuum cleaner, an empty bottle of Jack and a dead monkey.
Does anyone know where I can find a broken vacuum cleaner on short notice?

Seriously though, keep us in your prayers, this looks ugly.

Mark <><

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Mark, I'm counting on you Carolina folks to suck all the energy out of this thing before it gets up here. ;) I've been through a few of these -- two of 'em down your way, Bertha and Fran back in '96, one of which turned North Topsail Beach into six beaches, plus another in Georgia around 2000 -- and I was hoping that I was done with them. Earthquakes and a hurricane all in one week. If it starts raining toads I'm gonna be perturbed. Good luck to you.

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Rusty, Did you see the way they were carrying on about the earthquake?


I bet you guys would carry on a little if you got a couple inches of snow, too. It's all about what you're used to, and prepared for. (Well, actually, out here they carry on a bit about snow, too. The stuff that closes school here wouldn't have gotten us a two hour delay in Indiana -- but that's because we were used to it, and prepared for it. This part of the mid-Atlantic is one of those places where nature is generally pretty tame -- most of the time.)
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Oh, and here's a tip that could be useful for some of you: it turns out the scrap pile can be very handy when you're weighting down stuff in the yard. So the next time SWMBO complains about the scrap pile, you can say, "but honey, what'll we do the next time there's a hurricane?" :P

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I bet you guys would carry on a little if you got a couple inches of snow, too. It's all about what you're used to, and prepared for. (Well, actually, out here they carry on a bit about snow, too. The stuff that closes school here wouldn't have gotten us a two hour delay in Indiana -- but that's because we were used to it, and prepared for it. This part of the mid-Atlantic is one of those places where nature is generally pretty tame -- most of the time.)


No, a couple inches would shut down the state :o There is a 1500 ft pass near here that if there is ANY hail or anything at all that is cold and sticks to the ground it takes 9 NINE highway patrol cars on top to keep things moving people freak out because some slush builds up on the side of the road. Dont laugh to hard but maybe 1/4 inch total.
Rob
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I'll be saying a few words for all in harms way.

Quake, you call THAT a quake? What do you call it when a truck drives by?

Frosty the Lucky.


Funny, Frosty. I work on the top floor of our building, and my first thought when it started was, "what the heck are they doing on the roof?" But after a few seconds it became pretty obvious it was something considerably bigger than that. :)
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So we now have power back on, the broken trees in the yard are cleaned up and the leaky chimney mess is taken care of. The storm was downgraded to a cat 1 just before it hit and it moved a little to the east which saved us. Just a big mess in my community. The Outter Banks is a different story. All kinds of mess down there. Roads cut in two and plenty of work to do. Hopefully I'll have some time to work on the forge this week. Thanks for all your prayers.

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It forced me to do a lot of things I have been putting off too. Dang storm :angry: . But we were really blessed. I watched the roof peel off of the old carriage shed, the canal water rose but no higher than a good storm will do, pine cones everywhere and like you said; dead limbs everywhere. Forced cleanup.

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