Hurricane Irene

[rebeccasharp]

I interrupt the flow of photographs from my Spanish extravaganza to give you a live report of Hurricane Irene. After all of the weather reports, all of the evacuations, all of the panic and hysteria, this is what it looks like from my apartment:



Small body of water in my yard and some leaves and branches from the willowy tree. Basically, this is

Comments

[labrax]

I've experienced quite some hurricanes in the Indian Ocean (they're called cyclones there) when I used to fish there and I know from experience that a cat 1 storm isn't that dangerous when passing through "1st world structures" (I was in Reunion Island, a french island near Madagascar), but I understand that after Katrina US authorities have to enphasize the severity of the storms, just to be on the safe side.

Even here in Portugal every winter we have 2, 3 storms with winds of 100 km/h and apart from the heavy rain there's no significant damage, which is good, naturally.

[majrshorty]

my MTA buddy says that they're talking about re-starting service late tomorrow. No official word yet.