Hurricane Irene Hits Philly … on Twitter

For many Philly neighborhoods, Hurricane Irene was kind of a dud (sorry, East Falls, Manayunk and others in flood planes — no disrespect).

Not to say that is a bad thing — who wants to live on hand-crank flashlights, canned food and board games for seven to ten days?

But the fact did not escape many Philly-area tweeters. Some responded with humor.

@Lord_G_Almighty Hurricane Irene threatens the East Coast of USA. If MTV won’t cancel Jersey Shore, God will.

@billfelty upside of the hurricane #63: power-washed city streets and buildings

@ScooRandall_33 Irene took at look at some parts of Philly and said oh No. Gotta Go

@Clarknt67 BTW, I heard on FX Network it was always sunny in Philadelphia. Don’t believe the hype. #NLGJA2011 #Irene

@AshIsAmazin This year I survived a tornado, earthquake, hurricane, and a rapture. Officially winning.

@EllisFromPhilly Philly is in a mad panic over the storm. I hope the flash mobs drown

in the flash floods #ahbooo

@jerseycoach

@rowanuniversity First you get hit with a flood and then an earthquake. What’s next? Locusts?

@hey_daniel

Earthquake, hurricane, whatever. Anything but another 40 hour work week..

@blunted215

Irene is now a Tropical Storm. Philly broke that bitch down.

Others seemed unimpressed with the storm’s force.

@SkreeDeath

I must have missed that massive hurricane. All I saw was some rain. Philly doesn’t hurricane properly.

@Barbuzzo

Hurricane? It’s like god is sneezing!

@NeishaHillman They Could Have Just Said Flooding And Heavy Winds Like Wtf It Wasn’t

That Serious

@kadud Wild hurricane survival dreams, but no damage here in old city. People walking around aimlessly outside- lost w/out Cafe Ole open. #Philly

@tugis87 Ppl was really pissed they bought out Walmart, Target, Market for a thunderstorm, the news did kinda hype this hurricane up

Many took the warnings and aftermath seriously.

@Mz_MonieLuv The same ppl that didnt believe Noah and about the flood and he built

the arc are the same ppl who drowned and died

@djrtodaizza It’s not as bad as people thought it would be but people are still without power, gas. Trees are falling, killing people. Mass flooding.

@KING_LuxeDiddy Some People have trees in their living rooms, lost their lives, there’s
massive flooding….you dunno cuz Twitter is ur main info source -_-

@Missklepta @__ARROGANT
it’s so unbelievably corny to see people say “Irene ain’t shit”..uh
I’ve had no power for weeks several times & that shit sucks

@MsJanelleBaby So instead of all the “I told you so’s” about the hurricane, how about thanking god it wasn’t that bad! -__-

@angiewrites People died. Trees fell on cars/homes.Floods destroyed property(in this
economy).Be glad she skipped you.I don’t understand the snark #Irene

Some reported damage.

@shonishon The Schuylkill River is floating down Main St. 🙁

@JadeyyJade My ceiling is fucked & my floor is flooded boyy!

@LarryMendte @Beejer I have a crew outside my house right now removing another

downed tree from street. Yes damage in Philly. Flooding, power, trees

@Beejer @LarryMendte oh man. Glad to hear you are okay sir! I drove thru the

worst of it last night getting a few stranded friends.

@I_Me_Mine_J There’s a lot of debris and a downed tree in our complex. We can’t go

anywhere because we are surrounded by the flooding Schuylkill!’

@ArthurCaplan power back on. minor tree damage winds still a bit feisty ground

soaked we survived

@EricWaxy Still no power and I can’t even get through to PPL. It was easier this