West Coast folks laughed at us East Coasters with our earthquake earlier this week. Lori felt it a great deal more than we did up here. Being only 3 weeks before the 9/11 anniversary, people’s first thought here was that it was a bomb so a quake was actually a relief.
I’m very happy to share this weekend’s hurricane with them. As I write, Irene has made landfall in NC and coastal regions along the Atlantic coast and low lying areas have evacuated in state after state. She will show up here around 10pm, the northern sweep of the storm anyway. The eye comes almost directly over New Haven on Sunday between noon and 2pm. Right now we’re likely to get more wind (gusting up to 75-100 mph) than rain (4-8″ here, up to 15″ in the western part of the state – I so want to send it to Texas0. We’ve been told it’s a matter of how long we’ll lose power, not whether it will happen.l
I’ve done as much prep as I can, or will have by early afternoon. Already done:
- Week’s worth of medications
- Batteries, including the elusive D’s (shipped from Amazon!)
- Lanterns
- Flashlight
- 30 bottles of water + all pitchers
- Protein bars & canned food
- Manual can opener
- Cat food, treats, and catnip
- Medical supplies to change my own dressings
- Cash
- Recyling dumped
To do today:
- Wash clothes, sheets, towels
- Charge phone, laptop, netbook, iPad, iTouch, Kindle, camera
- Change litterbox
- Trash dump
- Move porch chair to the inside hallway (after I clean it in the bathtub)
- Get a pedicure 🙂
I’m very happy that the extremely dead tree right outside my door was cut down two weeks ago. All I have is a stump, which isn’t photogenic but also can’t come out to be a projectile and smash my windows.
Off to get busy. Be safe. In the words of Hill Street Blues‘ Sgt. Phil Esterhaus, “Let’s be careful out there.”
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