Hurricane Irene, lets see some pics and stories

[albiealert]

I am cooped up in the house until tomorrow and going crazy. I don't think we will get too much damage in Ct. How about you guys, do you have any Irene pictures or hurricane stories?

[surfstix1963]

nothing much to see on long island yet I think Jersey is probably starting to get it now we are not suppose to get much other than wind and rain after midnight then the heavier stuff will be coming through tomorrow morning through the day and should be out of here by the late afternoon we'll see how that works out.

[DarkSkies]

Pebbles and I were driving around today in the beautiful NJ Summer weather pattern....
Not many people around except the nuts who just had to be out there taking pics like us

(Hey, at least I didn't drag her out fishin, and we got to eat the best ice cream banana splits at Nagles in Ocean Grove for only $6!!! )

Belmar area...

Dunkin Donuts, go away Irene, etc....

[DarkSkies]

Wpix







Come on Irene!

[DarkSkies]

Do ya think someone was a little buzzed when they wrote this?

[DarkSkies]

Spring Lake looking towards Manasquan Inlet.
This was about 3 hours into the flood tide, 3 hours before high.













The tower, kinda foggy at the time preventing a clear view of MI

[DarkSkies]

Belmar and the Shark River Inlet

Belmar side





Bradley Beach



Heavy current flow into Shark River

[DarkSkies]

Asbury 8th ave

[DarkSkies]

Allenhurst

[DarkSkies]

Monmouth Beach






To the far left of this pic is where the surf first started to breach the seawall. This was about 2 hours before high tide.

[DarkSkies]

Sea Bright was closed unless you had to get back in, due to the sea wall being breached.







At this point the back Twin Rivers area was still ok, but this was 3 1/2 hours before high tide back there.
View of the back of Monmouth Beach, view of rising water in the Shrewsbury River.

[DarkSkies]

Bennys/Irene go home

Talked to Speedy before he just came off the roof I think he casted a plug up there to test swim it.

In the pic above you can see Speedy testing one of his new plugs.
He's up on the roof of the house, in the middle of the pic, wearing his plug testing gear.....








The bottom pic illustrates what the towns were doing to prevent their saltwater "lakes" from breeching. They had generators and pumps constantly running to immediately pump the excess water back to the ocean.

[jigfreak]

Love those Mikes pizza signs ds. "Blow us Irene", priceless.

[bababooey]

Good night Eileen/Irene, some great humor by those folks who stayed.

[jonthepain]

ha ha you guys are nuts

great photojournalist work, rich. wtg

[jonthepain]

route 12 in Hatteras got hit pretty hard. Ocean went through and formed a new inlet.

[Monty]

Awesome pics Jonthepain, That new inlet shows the power of mother nature.

I took a ride around the neighborhood and took a few pics (was hungry and found some pizza).

[jonthepain]

nice wheels!

[surfstix1963]

nice wheels for sure looks like NC took the brunt of it again.I think something's telling us not to move so close to the shore as we wanted to.But I probably won't listen.

[jonthepain]

I think something's telling us not to move so close to the shore as we wanted to.

nonsense.