Hurricane Irene - She's Bearing Down

Irene is still a category 1 because she is so big.  We just now getting the rain and the humidity - even with the air conditioning on it is very oppressive.  That is very unusual for this area.  Ordinarily it is not this humid.  We are bracing ourselves for up to 90 mile an hour wind gusts but sustained winds of between 60-70 miles an hour.  We are still in our apartment.  We are not in an evacuation area so we will just hunker down and ride it through.  I don't know where we would have gone to get a way from this anyway.  With Pam no longer in Pennsylvania, all of our friends are within the arms of the storm. 

I am sure that we will be fine.  There is not church today because of the storm.  All of the weekday anchors and weathermen are handling this because it is such a big deal - including the national media anchors.  Last night there was no other news on the national news stations but Hurricane Irene.  She eclipsed all other news events for 30 minutes. 

We are prepared for the inevitable power outage that will come this.  I am clearing out the refrigerator of things that don't have to be refrigerated or could live without refrigeration for a few hours.  If we do have a power failure I will pull out the eggs and fruits and vegs and add ice to the refrigerator to keep the things in the refrigerator longer. 

In something totally unrelated.  Our neighbor across the hall has lived there almost as long as we have lived in this apartment.  He has been gone most of the week, which is so unusual for him and his precious motorcycle has been left out in the elements.  Yesterday some friends came to get the motorcycle to take it to their garage for the storm.  It turns out Brian has had a massive heart attack and is in a coma in a hospital in Providence.  That leaves your Dad and me the only people in our stairwell to wait out this storm.  I thought I had better let everyone know we are fine in case there were power outages since our landline depends on electricity because of the way it is hooked up through our cable line.  Clyde will go over and use a his second counselors cellphone if the power outage goes on too long.