Hurricane Preparedness

I wrote this in August 2011. I have no idea how I was going to finish that last sentence. This was before Irene, let alone Sandy, so it's kind of wild.

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We are looking down the barrel at Hurricane Irene. I tend to not listen to, watch or read the news. I used to get my news from E! Online, but now I get it from Facebook. It's like a large-scale combo version of Phone-a-Friend and Ask the Audience. There is always a crackpot or two with wildly out of scale information, but it evens out for the most part.

I also don't tend to panic about impending disasters. I will worry the shit out of whether I've applied to enough Kindergarten options for my kid, but I was feeling pretty blasé about the hurricane until this morning. So I went to Target. People were all well-behaved, there was no pushing and shoving. The only real sign that something was doing down was the unusual number of