You know, from what I here, Irene was a pretty pussy storm.  I mean, the winds were nowhere near what us in the midwest walk to work in.  I mean, this year alone the Midwest has been hit by some bad-ass storms, and new-york gets hit with a category 1 hurricane and shits itself?

apparently the east coast is made of pussies.

I'm in New York, it was pretty pussy compared to the hype, but it was still pretty bad compared to what we're used to. We got a shitton of rain, it was pouring all day (it's rained harder, but never for that long). Winds weren't too bad, I only say two or three tree's taken down.

The reason it was so bad (at least in my area) is because we had a mudslide take out a garage, and every single body of water (stream, river, lake, whatever) is at a record height and still rising. The Hudson River is (or is supposed to get to) 9ft over the flood gates (or something?), which are are 20ft, so it's rising nearly 30ft. There's a couple small dam's that have given out, and there's at least one more threatening an entire town.