My family and I live in Virginia Beach, VA.
We are currently in the path of Hurricane Irene.

Sunday August 28, 2011 - 10:21am
We made it through hurricane Irene just fine.
We had a lot of wind and rain - it kept blowing and raining at least until 2:10am this morning when I finally went to bed.
We also only lost power for about an hour yesterday and we are so thankful for that.

This morning, of course, the sun is out and the skies are blue.
It's amazing what happened here yesterday actually happened.

Saturday August 27, 2011 - 5:36pm
The winds have picked up some recently.
The rain has been steady for the past few hours.
We still have electricity and we are very thankful for that.

Local forecasters here expect the worst of Irene to impact us around 7:00pm local time.

Saturday August 27, 2011 - 2:54pm
We have experienced a lull in both the wind and the rain.
The winds are low and the rainfall is nearly nonexistent.
Currently, the storm band of Irene are spinning off to the west of the center of the storm.

We still do have electricity, and are very thankful for that.

Saturday, August 27, 2011 - 12:25pm
Thankfully, Hurricane Irene has been downgraded in status to a Category 1 hurricane.

Rain and wind welcomed us this morning.
We lost electricity a little after 10:00am. 
Our electricity was restored right at 11:00am and has been on since.
We are expecting to lose power this afternoon.
We are also expecting the worst of the storm from the middle of the afternoon until about 9:00 tonight.

Friday August 26, 2011
We are expected to begin feeling and the seeing the effects of Irene tomorrow (Saturday August 27, 2011) at about sundown until about 2:00am the next morning (Sunday August 28, 2011).

I was in Virginia Beach in 2003 when hurricane Isabel came through and knocked over countless tress, knocked out electricity to thousands of citizens for days and closed down business (and my job at the time) for a few days. From what I am hearing, the meteorologists expect Irene to be a similar experience.

I remember Isabel passing over land a bit west of Norfolk/Virginia Beach back then.
Irene is supposed to keep to the east of us.
Maybe that difference in course will give us a small break.

Everyone along the east coast in the path of this storms thanks you for your thoughts and prayers.

Track hurricane Irene here and here.