Here at least in our little street and house in Rye, we are AOK. Irene has just been downgraded to a tropical storm. However, it's still packing a wallop. Gusts up to 75mph, waves at 11 feet...but high tide will come to us at 11AM. High tide in NYC was at 8AM.
The Hudson River crested, the East River is up over on to the streets in NYC. We live well outside of the city, along the coast just below Connecticut. We had a windy wild tropical sounding night of rain and now the rain comes and goes - sometimes pouring hard and big giant gusts... We do have power and for that I am very thankful. Rain and flooding are the biggies here, but I believe we are going to be OK as long as we keep power. Hate to speak too soon as the winds are really whipping. I'd love to go down to look at the water around that amusement park I've shown some pictures of lately - Playland....but I'm not going to be driving around right now.
Fingers crossed, buckets filled...
Hoping all of our other members and their families are safe and will remain so.
I'm guessing that Long Island is getting hit pretty hard. Many people are out of power across the area...with very serious flooding. Thankfully many took heed to warnings in the low lying areas, at least that is what I am hearing via the news.