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the hurricane that wasn't
Aug. 28th, 2011 09:09 pmOr wasn't for us. Lots of wind and rain, but no power outages. I didn't even need to bake brownies!
I'm aware that there were/are power outages locally but I'm not seeing a real pattern - some friends lost it for a few hours, fencing club lost it this morning, but I didn't see anything during my evening grocery run (why was the cat litter sold out? Was everyone planning on being stuck inside and decided they might as well knock out this unpleasant task?).
Yes, the media hyped it, but so did seemingly every authority except the weather forecasters, who simply couldn't predict specifics until it was right on top of us. Frankly I think after Katrina county/state governments never, ever want to be caught unprepared again.
I'm aware that there were/are power outages locally but I'm not seeing a real pattern - some friends lost it for a few hours, fencing club lost it this morning, but I didn't see anything during my evening grocery run (why was the cat litter sold out? Was everyone planning on being stuck inside and decided they might as well knock out this unpleasant task?).
Yes, the media hyped it, but so did seemingly every authority except the weather forecasters, who simply couldn't predict specifics until it was right on top of us. Frankly I think after Katrina county/state governments never, ever want to be caught unprepared again.
