Bad Night, Irene: Share Your Concerns About the East Coast Hurricane

Hurricane Irene is not eyeing Imperial Beach. But its calamitous potential can be felt here in the TVs tuned to national wall-to-wall coverage and social media flooded with warnings and well wishes.

Maybe you have family in the storm zone, or friends sharing their fears. Let us know how expatriate Imperial Beachians are navigating back east.

Meanwhile, revisit an extremely rare eastern Pacific hurricane that buffeted San Diego in 1858. Read an account by Michael Chenoweth and Christopher Landsea in a November 2004 article for the American Meteorological Society.

Some sources of Irene news:

Patch.com has hundreds of local editors updating community news sites in the affected states.

Huffington Post's news team and thousands of bloggers are watching events.

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has a blog of updated information.

The National Hurricane Center is Ground Zero for tracking Irene's path.

The American Red Cross is posting appeals for aid and listing resources.

The National Weather Service has latest maps and forecasts.

And don't overlook social media, including #Irene and #Hurricane tweets on Twitter.