Hurricane Irene

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

Thanks to all for your thoughts and prayers.

Corazon , I'm in Levittown.

Hopefully after Irene passes we can laugh about it

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.

Joe (Trelja) -

We were smart and left Sea Isle on Thursday night. you should have seen the gas line at the Shell on Central. The Wawa on the other side of the causeway was bad too. We had filled up the tank on Wed., sealed up the house and had no traffic getting back to Cinnaminson, where we have spent the last 2 days nailing down and brining in everything that might blow around. glad that you and your family stayed back here. My neighbor's brother and father are riding it out in Cape May.

I am talking about those who think its cool or a badge of honor to ride out a storm. I hope nobody is injured but there are idiots we all know this.