The National Weather Service in Wakefield, VA issued a strong report predicting lots of property damages from the storm ranging from eastern North Carolina into New England.

The NFL games in the east will be rescheduled. Glad the Deadskins and Ravens played last night.

This is a nasty storm and I sincerely hope everyone on the Forum escapes with little or no property damage.

At this time we have been told by www.wxrisk.com that we could be getting very strong wind and lots of rain for central Virginia. Just think what is going to happen along the coast?

Everyone keep us posted on what is happening in your area as long as you have power.

Otherwise we will wait until your power is restored to hear what occurred.

Best wishes to everyone to get through his storm.

Stay safe everyone.

Hurricane Irene, Advisory #22 Site Forecast for Dominion Resources Services, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA

Valid: 05:00 AM EDT 26 Aug, 2011

Discussion: Irene remains a category 2 hurricane this morning, but it is expected to re-intensify to a category 3 later today. Hurricane conditions are expected across the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Saturday. These hurricane conditions will spread northward along the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern coast Sunday and Monday.

General Rainfall Amounts:

Squalls will move into the area by this afternoon. Accumulations of 8-12 inches will be possible through Sunday morning. Isolated totals could be as high as 14 inches.

Storm Surge:

Tides will be 8-12 feet above normal for the Outer Banks. Areas south of the Outer Banks could see a surge of 10-15 feet. The Virginia shore can expect tides 4-8 feet above normal.

6,000 airline flights cancelled.

Storm hits NC today and moves up the coast.

Hope all the weathermen are wrong and it will not be that bad.

Everyone let us know how you made out.

Latest Dominion Virginia Power Company's outage map shows power going out along the NC and Virginia coast up into Williamsburg.

Here we go!

http://www.dom.com/storm-center/dominion-electric-outage-map.jsp

Large branch fell off a tree into side yard missing house by 20 feet and Direct TV keeps going on and off.

Heaviest rain and wind will arrive later this afternoon.

So what is happening to you?????

Waiting and worrying. You have a dish? I'll watch for it flying by. Hope it's already been as bad as it gets for you.

Just some good rain and a little wind in Alexandria so far...radar looks like our first good round will be in about an hour.

This is a hurricane? LOL

Never, ever, taunt mother nature, young one