Well, for us, Irene was not nearly as bad as it portended to be, and that's a blessing! We all prepared for the worst but the storm situation ended up much better than predicted. We did experience some rain water coming into our basement-- it appears there have formed some hairline cracks in the basement wall where the crawl space is. I suspect that is due to the 5.8 earthquake we experienced earlier this week, so I will have to have this insprected and fixed.
The most frightening thing last night was the many and frequent tornado warnings. You can't really prepare for a tornado except have a place to go in the basement. You can prepare for hurricanes, but not for tornados-- they are sudden events. Plus, the East Coast does not have an adequate not efficient tornado warning system as tey do in the Midwest. In the Midwest a specific system of tornado sirens lets residents know about the level of danger. It's idiotic that this system does not exist here.
The biggest challenge from Irene today is the impact f all this rain-- potential flooding for many people, but not us.
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