Hurricane Irene - please stay safe

[PolarSkye]

US East coast folks please stay safe this weekend - if the authorities recommend you evacuate - pls do so. Thinking particularly of brother-in-law, Chuck Sowers and his family on the Outer Banks, NC, my parents just off Round Bay (Chesapeake Bay) in Maryland, my bother and his family in Charlottesville, VA, niece in Richmond, VA and all our friends and family up and down the Eastern seaboard - especially OH's extensive family in New York and New Jersey.

Oh and of course Wassail . . . here's hoping airports re-open and you find a way to get over here (safe and sound) soon.

Board up the windows, fire up the generators, raid the stores for water, canned food, toilet paper and lots of wine and hunker down.

Much love

P

 

[Syrah]

I've just read it's weakened to a Cat 1, good news all round especially as it'll weaken further as it hits land.

Still a dangerous storm though, so stay safe everyone.

 

[Natch]

Thinking of you all. The news on the radio this morning said large areas of New York were being told to evacuate.

 

[dotty1]

My friend has been preparing for a huge family wedding all summer. She flew out to New York Thursday for the wedding which was on Sunday - it has been cancelled as Irene is due to hit the area Sunday afternoon.
Feel really sorry for them, don't know what they are going to do - stay and sit it out, take a trip away from the area or try and come home early.

 

[robthecob]

This may sound like a stupid question but what do people do with their horses during hurricanes? If we had hurricanes here then there would only be the options of leave them out or bring them in?

Stay safe everyone x

 

[0ldmare]

Brother and family live right in its path, fingers crossed it won't be too bad

 

[mulledwhine]

Keep safe everone, especially my friend who has just this minute landed in Washington, to live for 3 years ( husband been posted with the RAF) what a day to get there

 

[cluedo]

I was reading a very moving thread on saddle up when cyclone Yassi was hitting New Zealand. The lady had two horses and wrote a very moving diary of the night before when she had to basically turn her horses out into the field with no rugs on, and basically hope the best that they would survive. Everybody was on tenterhooks waiting for her to come back online and tell us whether the horses had survived and whether she was okay. . So I think basically people just let them animals fend for themselves in the hope that they will survive. They are safer in the field than being cooped up in a stable.