I guess I’d better get the grass cut today, what with the hurricane coming and all. Not that I’ll be feeling the effects of it. Last I saw, we’re pretty certain to get “a shower” tomorrow, unless Irene turns west a little. If I get lucky, it’ll all stay east of here. Good luck to you folks in Irene’s path, though. They sure do a good job of scaring people, so it’s hard to tell if this is all just fear mongering. The big hassle, I guess, isn’t the wind (this will be a fairly tame storm in that respect), but the flooding. Flooding in a place with underground rat tubes like the NYC subway system would definitely be a bummer. I really wouldn’t wanna be around to see what washes up out of there.<\/p>\n
Around here, this can’t help but remind us of the great “Labor Day Storm” of 1998. That was neither hurricane nor tornado, but a derecho, which is a straight-line storm with hurricane-force wind. Basically, a wall of wind. And it had a “supercell thunderstorm” embedded in it. <\/p>\n
Where we were living at the time, we had no power for two weeks. It was hot and humid and we had no a\/c. No refrigerator, either (what came out of the fridge when the power finally came back on was probably a lot like what’s gonna come up out of the NYC subway). That gotta pretty f*cking old after a while.<\/p>\n
It was pretty surreal, driving around trying to get from one place to another. We are a city of trees, and they were all on the ground blocking the streets. They said we lost “tens of thousands” of trees. All I know is, it was quite a mess. <\/p>\n
Funny, I don’t recall a clamoring to keep the government out of our lives when it came to cleaning up the storm damage. Of course, those were different times. “Pre-9\/11” and all.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, I hope everybody stays high and dry. Or at least high.<\/p>\n
And may all your derechos be with cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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