Tornado warning in Wynnewood, PA. Fuck.

[PCIntern]

I'm almost 60...I've lived my entire life here in PA, this weather resembles NOTHING I've ever experienced. anyone who doesn't believe that things have changed is mentally ill. sorry, but it is just unbelievable...and the storm, the REAL storm, hasn't even come close to starting yet...my sump pump is pumping every two to three minutes and if my power goes out, I have to get the generator on right away or the house will fill with water like a frigging swimming pool.

this REALLY sucks...

We're sleeping in three hour shifts...my turn now...I can't wait until 2:30 AM to start all over again...I hope.

Good luck to everyone affected by this nightmare....

PC

[Divine Discontent]

1. good vibes and prayers for you all... hang in there.

:hug:

[Poll_Blind]

2. My thoughts tonight are with you and everyone else affected by this.

Be safe!

PB

[eleny]

3. aw crap

all i can do is wish you a good solid sleep and electricity that stays on the job.

thinking of you and yours being very safe, sound and dry.

[RKP5637]

4. I think this might be the same one that about an hour ago crossed just south of the Delaware

Memorial Bridge from NJ on over to Newcastle, DE and then on up North through Wilmington, DE area on up to Phila.

[krispos42]

5. I'll be in the same boat very soon

We're dependent on pumps to keep the basement from getting flooded. Generator on standby, I'm on standby, it's getting windy out, and the rain is coming.

http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=okx&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=yes


Good luck!

[marions ghost]

6. PC and family

:hug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. All I can do is offer some moral support

and that sucks!

[snagglepuss]

8. What a horrible thing to have to go through.. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

:hug:

[Lugnut]

9. Stay safe, PC.

We're getting a fraction of what you are in the Pocono Mtns. It's windy and raining lightly right now. The rain was much heavier earlier but not so much right now.

[WillyT]

10. Stay Safe Please...

:grouphug:

:kick: & Rec!!!

[October]

11. New Hope, PA here... flooded basement...sump pump is nonstop but can't keep up

Tornado warning in nearby Doylestown...

Edited to add: Oh yeah... and the hurricane winds and rain come in 45 minutes to an hour. Rain like we've never seen before here -- including Hurricane Floyd in '98.

[PCIntern]

13. I grew up in New Hope:

First S. Main St. - we were the first ever to occupy the orange brick apartment bldg across from the Mule Barge, and then up in Center Bridge: the house that's right on the bridge to Stockton.

We were in that house when the canal broke thru the berm into the Delaware and emptied between Lumberville and New Hope right behind our home. had to evacuate and move to doylestown in 1 day: rented a stake truck and used the brand-new trash bags to pack the house. 30 straight hours of work. didn't tire for aminute. Now I'd just drop dead.

good luck up there: the patterns have changed in re: the flooding of the Delaware in recent years.

[October]

18. We drove all around Centre Bridge today... Dilly's was closed... :)

Sounds insane -- 30 hrs. nonstop!!! I can imagine.

Been here 22 years -- in the Borough.

Lumberville, New Hope, Yardley -- all have been hit hard these past 10+ years or so with floods!

Doylestown had tornado warnings last night -- and then today a lone gunman shot at one of their police officers (having killed 4 peopled from VA - Buckingham, PA). It's been insane lately -- earthquake, tornado warnings, hurricane conditions, flooding, winds...and an insane shooter on the loose in the midst of the hurricane!!!

The Delaware River is expected to crest tomorrow (Monday) at 3-4 feet above flood stage. <cringe> Main Street has been evacuated.

Thanks. Nice to known a fellow New Hoper.

[TorchTheWitch]

12. only a few miles from me

Basement is dry as a bone. I do have a really good solid basement in this ancient house though. At the moment it's not even raining heavy and the leaves on the trees are barely moving. It rained a lot harder a few hours ago, and I drained a few inches of water out of the pool in anticipation of much more to come. Still, earlier this summer we had a few nasty quick thunderstorms that turned the yards into rivers and bent the trees double that far outweighs what's been going on only a few miles from you with this storm so far.

And it's 2:30AM now, so wake up and nose back to the grindstone.

[Tx4obama]

14. I am sorry that your basement is wet, BUT I am jealous ....

the 'majority' of houses down here in Texas do NOT have basements - so we have NO WHERE to go when there is a tornado.
Always 'try' to find the bright side of every situation, it will make you feel a bit better.

[October]

19. True for everything...

When the earthquake hit, we were mostly in brick and/or glass buildings...

We all have some good, bad.... and ugly, I suppose.

[Lucinda]

15. My thoughts are with you all

♥

[PCIntern]

16. Thank you all...

we made it here with nary a scratch. The winds were not as bad as they had said they might have been, and so we were spared a blackout SO FAR. Where I live there are many tree limbs overhanging wires and you never can tell, but at least we made it thru.

Thanks again for all the good wishes...now good luck to the NYers and New Englanders...

[sweetapogee]

17. 1.2 inches

I'm 25 miles north of Allentown. My rain gage is showing 1.2 inches of rain total, this as of Sunday 10:15 AM. This is less than expected.

I worked a rather nasty auto wreck Sunday from 01:30 to 05:00 and we had very little interference from the weather. I think sweating from my bunkers made me as wet as I would have been if I had no PPE at all!