Hurricane Irene

[KRonn]

Some downed trees and pwoer lines around here. I understand there are wide scale power outages elsewhere about Mass and NH.  But its not really doing anything.

I heard that some of the outages might last a week or more. Yay for efficiency.

My town has its own electric dept, so they seem to be fast in restoring power, reason is (I assume) they only have to take care of the town.

[Ed Anger]

If y'all see a visiting DP&L worker working on your lines, kick him in the nuts for me.

[DGuller]

I officially lost that $20.

[DGuller]

Holy crap, just watched some of the videos.  It seems like I was luckier than I first thought, some areas of Jersey City not too far from me truly were submerged.  It also appears that my new building is very well insulated against winds, because I didn't even hear the sound of them, while apparently they were quite strong given the wind damage.

[Ed Anger]

Any dead guidos floating down the street?

[Razgovory]

And the outside cat was inside.

Oh the humanityfelicity! 

FYPFY

LaCroix should be happy.  I passed up an opportunity to correct Marty.

[Ed Anger]

And the outside cat was inside.

Oh the humanityfelicity! 

FYPFY

LaCroix should be happy.  I passed up an opportunity to correct Marty.

Who in the fuck is LaCroix? Follow your heart.

[Razgovory]

A guy who seems to think I hate Marty and Slargos.  I don't really.  I just find Slargos tiresome and Marty easy and fun to insult.

[dps]

The electricity was out here from about 11:30 yesterday morning until just a bit ago.  Fuck it, first weekend I've had off in ages and there wasn't anything to do.

[derspiess]

Well, that was a useless 18 hour overnight shift in the Incident Command Center.  Most overrated Cat 1 cane in Maryland EVAH.

Sounds like my 5 days I was stuck in Cleveland for Y2K "issue response and management".

[Eddie Teach]

Who in the fuck is LaCroix?

Probably one of those people that only Raz can see.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Massive floods throughout Vermont, as well as other places in the northeast.
Pictures:
Western Massachusetts
Vermont

Also, prepare for another budget battle over FEMA funding, since FEMA doesn't have enough to cover Irene's damage. God help us if soon-to-be Katia hits us at strength, because the Republican party won't.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/post/fema-moving-money-around-to-pay-for-hurricane-irene/2011/08/28/gIQAWwmhkJ_blog.html?fb_ref=NetworkNews

With less than $1 billion currently available for federal disaster assistance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is temporarily suspending payments to rebuild roads, schools and other structures destroyed during spring tornadoes in Joplin, Mo. and southern states in order to pay for damage caused by Hurricane Irene.
...
The shortfall means the Obama administration will soon request supplemental funding from Congress, likely causing another fight over federal spending as a new "supercommittee" prepares to identify trillions of dollars in government spending cuts.

Already House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) has said that any new money for FEMA will be offset by spending cuts elsewhere.

"We've had discussions about these things before and [FEMA] monies will be offset with appropriate savings or cost-cutting elsewhere in order to meet the priority of the federal government's role in a situation like this," Cantor said at a news conference last week after an earthquake struck his congressional district.

But at least there's a ray of light:

On Saturday, House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) urged the Senate to quickly approve the House GOP version of the annual Homeland Security spending measure that includes $1 billion for additional disaster funding this year and $2.65 billion for fiscal 2012.

[Tamas]

Marty easy and fun to insult.

yeah but it's getting boring quickly. There is just no challenge whatsoever.

[CountDeMoney]

It's the first time in memory that a hurricane washed out the first day of the school year.

And a shitload of traffic lights are still out.  Ought to be a blast to watch the carnage.

[CountDeMoney]

Also, prepare for another budget battle over FEMA funding, since FEMA doesn't have enough to cover Irene's damage. God help us if soon-to-be Katia hits us at strength, because the Republican party won't.

They only bitch about federal money until they need it.

Too bad Obama's gonna lose points helping out the regions hardest hit.  ZOMG OBAMA'S INCREASING TEH DEFICIT OUTTA CONTROL SPENDING