anyone in Northeast USA hit by hurricane?

Hurricane Ivan (Don't know why the hell they gave it THAT name) apparently passed by my town (bergenfield, bergen co. NJ, about 15 minutes from the GWB), drenching us. I guess most people just tohught it was a lot of rain... for me it was the cherry right on top of what was already a downhill weekend.

Well I guess the guys working at my house left some tiles and shiz at the rear door at the outside of my house... covering the drain. Friday night I went to bed and when I woke up, every ince of the carpet in my computer room was saturated with water. I felt like Jesus walking on that carpet.

This becomes a huge problem. Everything touching the ground got soaked; Electrical appliances, books, instruments. We couldn't just leave it, we moved everything and ripped up the carpet, then that little foam layer underneath, then mopped up everything (grand total of 4 hours). Right now i'm typing to you from right next to my front door.

Lesson learned: A little unprofessionalism can go a long way. That's real unprofessional to leave tiles blocking a drainage system. Now there's tons of damage to account for in that room. Remember that when doing your jobs, kids. Professionalism. Make yourself a favorable employee.


p.s. anyone in the nj/ny/pa/ma area that got slammed by this thing?

What, you mean the li'l bit of drizzle a while ago? [/newyorker] :D

And don't they give out hurricane names in the order of the alphabet?

Yea, it is the alphabet, and we were driving around yesterday, and it was just kinda lightly raining on and off. But, I did see a tree fall on a car in a parking lot. *immitates crashing noises*

Rochester, Western NY. Lil' rain. Nothing to write home about.

That definitely sucks about your living room though. Kinda an odd place to have flood though. Does your house have a basement? Any electronics irreparably damaged? At least the computer appears to be working properly.

Arizona, we got a lot of rain last night, but not from the hurricane. :p :p :p

Good luck getting everything fixed sekzy.

Talk to MBB. He lives in Mobile and nearly took the blunt of it.

damn storm knocked out my DSL! Other than that, not much happened (to me anyway). On the news I heard a few stories.....like a house collapsed (imploded actually) due to the amount of rain.

As much as flooding sucks, atleast you still have your house (and internet connection lol)

(and connecticut btw)

That definitely sucks about your living room though. Kinda an odd place to have flood though. Does your house have a basement? Any electronics irreparably damaged? At least the computer appears to be working properly.

The room that got flooded is the one that you' would enter if you were to walk from my back yard into my rear door. thats how the water got in, the drainage next to that door was blocked and thats how it got in, seeped through that door. only a little dripped into the basement.

damn...

That just straight up sucks. On one hand, here's this room that you keep all your expensive electronics in, and on the other hand, here's this concrete crater in the ground that you keep all the crap you haven't even looked at in at least 6 months, and which one gets flooded? Of course the one with the good stuff in it. That's definitely a drag.

Anything damaged though? Cuz maaaaaybe insurance could buy y'all a new computer...er, big screen tv, or some such other goodie.

PA got hit pretty hard in some places, notably near Gettysburg and in the county west of there. Tornados and lots of rain. That's about 50-70 miles west of where I live in Lancaster. I was paying very close attention until the threat passed; there's not much that scares me in this world besides tornados.

We didn't get very much rain at all, but the local weather guys were all over it, since their broadcast coverage reaches the affected areas. Text crawls and overlays with running flood updates, street closings and events postponements news over every local TV show broadcast.

The Susquehanna (a dang big river, for those of you who don't know...its wider than the Mississippi for much of its 444 mile length) has crested from 5- 10 feet above flood stage, prompting evacuations in low-lying areas near the river and many of its larger tributaries, west and north of Lancaster. Should be receding to below flood stage later today or tomorrow morning.