Waiting for a storm
I don't remember when the last time was that I waited for a storm. Oh wait....it was this past winter when I told my parents I was getting married. But that's not the kind of storm I mean today. Today I'm waiting for Hurricane Irene. She's visiting folks down in North Carolina right now but I imagine she'll be arriving in the next 12 hours. She'll be stopping by my friends in the DC area before she moves on up to my friends in the Delaware area before she comes here to the New York City, Long Island area. Quite a visit. It's quite a big deal considering there hasn't been a hurricane up this far in years. And I personally have never had to weather one. I remember way back in college there was supposed to be a hurricane heading for New Orleans but it downgraded or veered off its predicted course - I can't remember which one. Still we got the outer bands of the hurricane and boy was it a torrential downpour. I remember wading through the quad, the wat