More like, oh no.
I had just gotten off the Internet yesterday afternoon when I heard a rumbling noise that sounded like a truck was passing by, and I quickly learned that it was a tremor in the earth that was centered near Richmond, Virginia that shook the entire East Coast. It was the lead story on the PBS NewsHour Tuesday evening, and the earthquake became a constant source of gossip online. Not much damage was done, so everyone laughed it off.
They won't be laughing off Hurricane Irene so easily.
Hurricane Irene, the ninth named tropical storm of the 2011 hurricane season, is expected to make landfall in North Carolina sometime early Saturday and run along the East Coast and possibly affect New York City - severely - on Sunday. The current forecast for northern New Jersey is for "heavy rain and wind" on Sunday, but to leave it at that that would be like calling Pearl Harbor a skirmish, as this storm is turning out to be so huge and powerful.
The good news is that it should be gone almost as soon as it appears. The bad news is that I may be out of commission for a couple of days or so, depending on whether the power goes out and how long it stays out. I'll keep you posted.
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