Hurricane Irene Blog - Sunday 22.00

There’s an odd feeling around a town that’s been through a long night. It’s like that really chilled out feeling you get the day after a good late party. The dark frightening, windswept and sodden night gave way to a grey, gusty morning and finally a beautiful, bright, breezy afternoon. Wndering around the Inner Harbour there was a feeling of tolerance or relief. Visiting Navy ships moored around the edges and above, unfettered by clouds, the sun was able to make its warmth known. Up the hill Camden Yards was full of enthusiastic baseball fans and along the way workers checked the integrity of the temporary stands erected for next week's Grand Prix. Back in the harbour the only signs of damage were the little electric boats, floating, but filled with water like a line of baths. By and large we dodged a bullet.

The totals were I was staying would up being 4.6 inches of rain and a gusts of up to 55mph. Doesn’t sound like much but I don’t need to live it through it again.

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Bazza

Hurricane Irene Blog - Sunday 09.30

All that's left is some light rain, a breeze and a cleanup. Will make some tea and head out but overall cannot see any obvious damage

Hurricane Irene Blog - Sunday 04.15

It's all about the wind now. Less rain but the wind is gusting very strongly. Half of the mall across the road seems to be in the dark. We still have power. This is about the time the eye passes to the east. At around midnight the estimation was that we,d had just over 4 inches of rain and gusts at 50 mph both these numbers are bound to increased.

Re: Hurricane Irene - Saturday 11.30

In bed now. It has gotten really really loud out there. The rain has gotten as heavy as at any point in the day. It has now been raining really heavily for 12 hours. The wind is now gusting really powerfully.
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Hurricane Irene Blog - Saturday 22.15

Wind is stronger yet and has also swung around a bit so that it is slapping the non stop rain against my windows. Those windows, in my hotel room, face North West and up until now I have been on the sheltereds side. The seriously worrying development is tornadoes within some of the spiraling rain bands. We have totally lost all local channels from satelitte but still have power right now. The Governor of Maryland announced that there will be no attempt to fix any power outages until after the storm is finished (makes sense really).



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Bazza