Shaken East Coast of US braces for Hurricane Irene

East Coasters, now that you're shaken? You may as well get stirred. Hurricane Irene threatens the Eastern Seaboard, and populations throughout the Caribbean may be hit hardest: Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and islands in the Bahamas.

(via Ned Sublette)

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kP

If we relocate the FLEET WEATHER CENTER from Norfolk to Mobile, can we redirect the storm?
Utenzil

It could be worse, the earthquake and the hurricane on the same day, hah? Wouldn’t *that* of sucked: “Earthquake, run outside! No No, Hurricane!! Aieeee!”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

We need more cities with names like “Cape Fear.”

If that curve continues Irene will bean Long Island. Growing up, that was an excuse to drive to the beach and lean into the wind blowing in from the ocean.
- http://thebeatdown.disqus.com Franklin
  
  good way to get blown INTO the ocean…
- frogmarch
  
  While Cape Fear is a tuff-ass name, it isn’t a city but a …cape. The name is one of the oldest English place names in the US, coming from the Roanoke Colony voyages (1585) where they had a treacherous time rounding the cape in heavy weather.
  
  This has been your North Carolina History Minute; now back to The Andy Griffith Show.
  - Lobster
    
    Indeed, and sailors who decided to forgo Cape Fear in favor of a safer, warmer port found themselves in sunny Cape Rape, an area well known for its production of the rape crop.
James B

The bias in this climate prediction is disgusting. This storm track is just alarmist grandstanding to get more funding for the liberal academic researchers. The models are completely flawed, and this could just as easily change directions and hit Arkansas.
EH

I hope Boehner winds up liking his FEMA trailer.
tp1024

Obligatory XKCD comic:
http://xkcd.com/611/

And no, I can’t help it either nor do I feel particularly good about it.
LILemming

The week after? Cats and dogs living together.
xzzy

I demand a google maps image with NYC run through photoshop’s twirl filter. Animated.
http://twitter.com/_Morrigan Morrigan

Har har har. Stupid earthquake scared the sh*t out of me for 20 or so seconds. Hurricane? Bring it.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MV2AJ6TTUFXGAXGCIS76NYAYCU CaptainK

Authorities with FEMA have stated that the agency is preparing for the worse case scenario and expect to be on the scene sometime in early 2015.
http://thebeatdown.disqus.com Franklin

it’s coming right for us
http://clarinerd617.myopenid.com/ Henry Goodwin

Oh, good, a disaster we’re familiar with!
Little John

Life on the U.S. east coast is apparently like a Bond martini: Shaken, not (yet) stirred.
Lobster

At least the earthquake created a couple of natural drains.
awjt

Now it’s aimed straight at New England. Ugh!!!