The track is truly the worst case scenario forecasters have warned about. Fortunately, Irene was not able to strengthen as it moved up the coast toward N.C. If this was even a cat 3, on the path it is slowly moving on, things would me much, much worse and we might be left talking about the east coast's Katrina. But for shear, destructive power. I'd take sitting through Irene than the Joplin tornado anytime. |
Thanks all for the well wishes! Hang in there buds, you know we're going to make it. Sunrise on the beach http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBODVcsaPP0 A look at the bay (Intracoastal Waterway), separated from the ocean by the two hundred or so yards of the island http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo0zYjxZ7-E And, a sunset on the wetlands side of the bay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZqk4aVmQMw&feature=related Get a taste of how wonderful the experience of the beach is for a child http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACVJiIn4QdM&NR=1&feature=fvwp and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZFS-jehn2A Amen, Kbarkamian! Idiots?!? Yeah, we probably are, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLJSYklnQ40 But, I will make you this promise. You know when you can routinely get 20K people, 5K of which were willing to dive into the frigid Atlantic Ocean, on an otherwise desolate barrier island on a Saturday in the middle of February, when we're as pasty white as we ever get, we are going to pick up whatever pieces needed to put things back together |
In the whole grand scheme of things, no one can control the weather nor the majority of what it'll destroy. The most important thing is how everyone acts in response to it. Hopefully the powers that be will handle everything promptly, efficiently, and most importantly correctly. The most important thing is that people don't act like animals during the aftermath. There are a lot of very good people in NYC and the surrounding areas, even in the "worst parts." Hopefully the few miscreants don't take the worst case scenario as an excuse to act like animals. |
