Saturday, August 27, 2011

Saturday Morning

I went to bed last night with the firm intention of getting up a-dawn and mowing the grass. I overslept and woke at 7:00, the sun already firmly above the horizon. Made coffee and stumbled out on to the back patio and decided that the grass could wait another couple of days.

The news feeds on the computer tells me that Hurricane Irene has moderated somewhat overnight. The folks in North Carolina are going to take a hit, but not like the one they might have taken. As the storm moves up the coast, it's going to push water ahead of it and there will still be some localized flooding, but it's now a Cat 1 storm. Dr. Jeff Master's blog over at Weather Underground is showing that while the storm has weakened, it's still a threat to navigation and there will be downed power lines and disruption of daily lives.

It looks like the East Coast dodged a bullet, but we thought that too when Katrina was downgraded and jogged east just before landfall. Then the levees failed and the rest is history. You folks in the east, be careful today and tomorrow. This thing ain't over till it's over.

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