Why It’s Silly To Think Sandy Is Like Irene
Irene was an amateur ‘cane compared to this guy. I mean girl.
Irene was an amateur ‘cane compared to this guy. I mean girl.
Don’t share these images from storms past, or storms that never existed.
After her hilarious Hurricane Irene joke from last weekend, Michele Bachmann performs more stand-up. Seriously, if she quit her day job for this, that’d be great. (via.) View Media ›
Jesus. It’s really a mess out there. (via dailydawdle.com) View Image ›
Heartwarming. Pictures like this give me HOPE. (via burlingtonfreepress.com) View List ›
Potential near-death experiences and Craigslist really bring out the romantic side of people. Something tells me that 9-10 months from now there will be a few love children named Irene joining us on this earth.
No more joking about Irene being a non-event. The governor says the flooding in central and southern Vermont is the worst in over a century. A dozen bridges have been washed away, tens of thousands are without power, and at least two are dead in the tiny New England state. If you’d like to help Vermont and the many other victims of Irene, please make a donation to the Red Cross. View List ›
Late Saturday night, four friends went out on a bike ride to see what the tropical storm was really like. The video starts off with biking during the afternoon drizzle, and resumes during the torrential downpour and high winds, notably biking down the middle of a wholly deserted Times Square and Chinatown. Sweet soundtrack too, guys. (via doobybrain.com) Watch Video ›
This sucks. Here are before and after pictures of a 141-year-old covered bridge in Vermont. The bridge was washed away when the Williams River flooded during Irene. View List ›
The destruction in East Hampton, Long Island was actually pretty bad. Here’s a compilation I made of Mill Hill Lane.
Look familiar? This is pretty much every single Hurricane Irene news segment you’ve watched this weekend. That is, if the anchors really didn’t hold back on their whipping boy correspondents. (Poor Dave.) Watch Video ›
Irene fell far short of the media’s dire warnings even before it was downgraded. Howard Kurtz on the scaremongering by television and local officials.
Hurricane Irene may not have been as disastrous as everyone feared, but that doesn’t mean now is the time to get rid of FEMA. (via.) Watch Video ›
When Nickelodeon Studios shut down, I always wondered where they dumped all that slime. Now I know. (via.) Watch Video ›
Pete and Pat were Key West-bound in a raft from Philadelphia (!!), but local police put the clinks on the bros long before they arrived at their tropical destination. After showing face on a local newscast, the river rats were arrested just minutes after “for lack of common sense,” the officers said. (via philadelphia.cbslocal.com) View Media ›
Flooding, tree branches, winds, oh my! Taken around the lower Manhattan area, these photos show the “catastrophic” aftermath of Irene’s great force.
Now that Hurricane Tropical Storm Irene is behind us, let’s get to what’s really important: what the Internet thought about it. Facebook and Twitter users were constantly updating their pages during the storm, and from the looks of it, they were pretty furious about it.
“On any other occasion, I would certainly go for the full flavored Yuengling,” he said. “But I am trying to maximize my buoyancy.” View Image ›
Here she is, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. (via businessinsider.com) View Image ›
Not everyone headed for the pubs during Irene. Watch Video ›
The seafood lovers of Wilmington, North Carolina, applaud you. (via.) View Image ›
Disregard hurricanes. Acquire reverence. Despite Irene drenching the Arlington Cemetery, this lone sentinel does his duty. A member of The Old Guard has walked this route every day without fail since April of 1948. View Image ›
More East Coast dudes display their wacky antics to either disprove Hurricane Irene’s media sensationalism or simply because hopping around barefoot in a tropical thunderstorm is totally boss. You be the judge. (via.) Watch Video ›
Blissfully unaware. View Image ›
Notorious prank caller and “Howard Stern Show” wack packer Captain Janks got the better of two Raleigh/Durham news anchors during a Hurricane Irene segment. Bababooey to you all. (via.) Watch Video ›
Hurricane Irene has arrived but no worries. My knight in shining armor will keep me safe. View Image ›
Redditor ohmonsieur says: “Ain’t no Irene gonna take my honda.” View Image ›
OK, OK. Now we’re scared. View Image ›
It’s very easy. And you will be WASTED. (via s0ldiers.tumblr.com) View List ›
“If you survived Hurricane Irene/you’d be in Paris getting effed up too!” View Image ›