Irene has been making her way through the east coast since last night yet I hardly felt a thing, I slept like a rock! I woke up to the sound of the rain smacking hard against the window, I rushed over to check it out and to my amazement the trees where rocking back and forth with fury! I live on a third floor so it was a bit scary to see this.
I made a few phone calls to people I know wake up before the sun shines and they tell me this has been going on since before 6 am, I look at my clock and is close to 10:30 am...Did I sleep through all that? My friend tells me that some streets were close because of trees falling and some towns without electricity; glad we are not one of them...then the lights started flickering, minutes later the entire house went dark but it came back on after a few minutes :) happy moment.
Everyone made a huge fuzz about Irene and like every other hurricane we wait for it was just a little bust at least in our area which I am extremely grateful for and very lucky as well. Last year Earl was suppose to hit use hard, supermarkets full, the lines going out the door, same as this year, and Earl went by just waving at us :-/ just saying...In the east coast we make huge deals about storms that by now I have learned to believe it until I see it, I still have candles left from 1999 when they said the lights were going to go off at midnight, to be prepare for 2000 that it was going to be chaos...I am sure there are many people still consuming their can food from that year as well. It is scary to thing something like that is coming our way and we are not prepared for it...makes me wonder
I have some essentials in case of emergency, I am not only prepared for a catastrophe, I am prepared just in case at any given moment something happens. I don't think we will know when something big is going to hit us, just like that tornado that hit Springfield MA, nobody was expecting that! here! in the east coast, a tornado?
MSNBC post on Springfield Tornado.
We are just waiting now for the storm to pass, the wind is dieing out, the rain recently stopped, I think we are going to be alright :)
