Hurricane Irene

Not everyone who'll decide to ride it out is an idiot. Some simply have no where to really evacuate to. There are shelters, but they' have their own set of issues. Did you hear about what happened at a lot of shelters in New Orleans?

I live in Stamford, CT. 2 blocks away from the ocean. Luckily our families are all in Albany, NY. We just got there, as we have a 9 month old daughter and aren't taking any chances. If we didn't have family far enough away from the worst parts, I'm not sure what we'd do to be honest.

Not everyone has this option. I'm pretty optimistic that it'll be more annoying than utterly destructive. Living without electricity for a few days can be dealt with. Hopefully people won't lose their homes, or worse, their lives.

In the whole grand scheme of things, no one can control the weather nor the majority of what it'll destroy.

The most important thing is how everyone acts in response to it. Hopefully the powers that be will handle everything promptly, efficiently, and most importantly correctly. The most important thing is that people don't act like animals during the aftermath. There are a lot of very good people in NYC and the surrounding areas, even in the "worst parts." Hopefully the few miscreants don't take the worst case scenario as an excuse to act like animals.

Trejela,

Priceless regarding the sprinklers. Truth is stranger than fiction, and funnier too. Glad to see everything's ok in your neck of the woods.