Hurricane Isabel Thread

[Spence]

I'm generally the type of person who rolls their eyes at these overheated weather warnings in the media and I've been doing the same thing with Hurrican Isabel. The DC area Metro system [rail and buses] will be closed after 11.00 AM tomorrow morning. I have no idea if this will affect any NFL games or the hR tailgate [though I doubt it will], but if our plans change we will let you know.

[dj_stouty]

My buddy in the Navy just called and said they have off tomorrow. I'm assuming the entire federal government is now off tomorrow since Metro is not accessible.

I'll bet Sunday's weather is beautiful. It usually is after a nasty storm.

[Skins57]

I just heard on the radio tonihgt the local schools are thinking about closing friday some are closing early tomorrow

[bfauble83]

Yup, schools in my area are closing early tomorrow and have already called it off Friday.

[JoeDaSchmoe]

This makes for a happy week for me. :cool:

[rskinsfan10]

Schools here are closed for the entire day tomorrow and some have said no to Friday as well.

[PennSkinsFan]

WIMPS!

[JoeDaSchmoe]

Ssshhh, PSF, don't stop them.

[hail2skins]

Yep, the Federal Government is closed tomorrow. I'm happy.

[Patrick]

Sucks when you work for a City municipality and are considered essential personel. Oh well, someone got to stay around and clear up the mess.

Forecast for Saturday AND Sunday is: MOSTLY Sunny with a high in the 80's.

[dj_stouty]

This sucks...

Schools are closed....Fed Government is closed including military personnel...and the Metro is closed.

YET, my company is allowing employees with children and employees who use the Metro TO STAY HOME! Us non-kids and car owners have to get our a$$e$ up and go into work! What kind of crap is that?!?!?

[Patrick]

Originally posted by dj_stouty
This sucks...

Schools are closed....Fed Government is closed including military personnel...and the Metro is closed.

YET, my company is allowing employees with children and employees who use the Metro TO STAY HOME! Us non-kids and car owners have to get our a$$e$ up and go into work! What kind of crap is that?!?!?

Ah my friend - NICE to feel important - Someone got to sell whatever you sell. 76 hours from now it won't really have mattered!

[GolfFreak]

All I can say is it was nice to drive 60 MPH this morning vs. the crawling 1 - 10 MPH that I normally deal with in the DC area.

[AGibbsGirl]

Rugrats are getting out 2 hours early today, and they were off for "Fair Day" on Friday anyway.

(Yup, my area is still so AG. that they let the kids off for the fair, which by the way, packed up to leave town yesterday ~grin~)

After 10 snow days last year, I'm glad we won't be using any this week!

[JoeDaSchmoe]

I'm glad we're using two snow days this week. With the kind of winter we're predicting, we'll use at least a dozen, and once we hit the magic number ten, state law changes and we don't have to make them up. Good times. :cool:

[AGibbsGirl]

Joe where do you live?
That's not the case in Maryland.
We must go to school 180 days, in my county only 4 closings were built in last year. I think we used 11, we had to make up all but 2, which were waved, by request, by the state.
Needless to say, We didn't have a Spring break

[Skaggsrules]

My school had a half day yesterday and was closed today, because our school doubles as a storm shelter. Right now the storm is about to pick up.

[JoeDaSchmoe]

I live in Alexandria. Sounds like Maryland's got get with the times when it comes to not making up snow days. ;)

[Patrick]

Originally posted by AGibbsGirl
Rugrats are getting out 2 hours early today, and they were off for "Fair Day" on Friday anyway.


(Yup, my area is still so AG. that they let the kids off for the fair, which by the way, packed up to leave town yesterday ~grin~)

After 10 snow days last year, I'm glad we won't be using any this week!

Hey Girl - you must live in Frederick Co. , Im in the same situation!

[AGibbsGirl]

I'm not far from you Patrick, Jefferson is right outside of Frederick

[Patrick]

??? Up by Libertytown or Walkersville ???
Anyway - what time are you heading to the game Sunday?

[Shabba]

I hope everyone stays safe in that part of the country. This is serious stuff. Safety comes first.

I will never forget Hugo when he slammed into the Carolinas years ago. Any preparation is necessary.

[AGibbsGirl]

Originally posted by Patrick
??? Up by Libertytown or Walkersville ???
Anyway - what time are you heading to the game Sunday?

Other way...Off of 340 sorta near Brunswick, not sure when we're leaving maybe around 11:00, gotta pick up my Bro in Germantown

[ShaggySkins]

I've been going to UMD College Park now for 3 years.
My first year we had a tornado
My second year we had a Blizzard
This year is a Hurricane
Next year I'm predicting Alien Invasion
it only seems to fit.

[NamVet4]

Its Thursday 9-18 at about 4:35 pm here at the Jersey Shore... The wind has been blowing since very early this morning. The sky is a mottled gray and white with some streaks of dark blue overcast. The rain has just begun to fall. The waves are beginning to roll onto the shoreline......The breakers are churning up foam and sea weed as they crash onto the shoreline. We have been under a flood warning since last night - we will see increasing rain probably within the net 12 hrs. A typical Jersey Shore hurricane scenario.

So........... I look forward to leaving here on Saturday to head for the Tailgate Party where I'm hoping beautiful weather will abound.

To all of you in harms way I wish you well, be safe and take care of yourselves.

[hail2skins]

Originally posted by ShaggySkins
I've been going to UMD College Park now for 3 years.
My first year we had a tornado
My second year we had a Blizzard
This year is a Hurricane
Next year I'm predicting Alien Invasion
it only seems to fit.

I'm in Greenbelt, Shaggy and I remember all of those events.

[NCskinsfanatic]

Hey guys the storm has passed here.It wasnt too bad strong wind gusts,4-6 inches of rain,limbs down that sort of thing.The coast got it a little worse.My parents live an hour and a half northeast of me and they got higher sustained winds and lost power,etc.It looks like the outer banks got pounded.

[Minnesota Mike]

Originally posted by ShaggySkins
I've been going to UMD College Park now for 3 years.
My first year we had a tornado
My second year we had a Blizzard
This year is a Hurricane
Next year I'm predicting Alien Invasion
it only seems to fit.

When is the Earthquake?

[AGibbsGirl]

Originally posted by ShaggySkins
I've been going to UMD College Park now for 3 years.
My first year we had a tornado
My second year we had a Blizzard
This year is a Hurricane
Next year I'm predicting Alien Invasion
it only seems to fit.


Lived in Marelinn all my life, we never use to have stuff like this...I'm holding you responsible Shag

[LadyNRedskinsfan]

the schools in my area, howard county, closed on thursday and friday. thankfully for me, classes were cancelled for me on friday!! woo hoo! 4 day weekend! ok ill stop now....