What Chicago is talking about this week:
... even though it may not have affected us directly, we're all still buzzing about Hurricane Irene.
It sounds like there is lots of property damage and there are still many without power, but it would seem that most loved ones survived without issue. The early reports say that 18 deaths are attributed to the storm and many stories of loss are heart-wrenching (a man electrocuted trying to save a drowning child [wasn't that a George Clooney episode of ER] and a call placed on a cell from a girl whose car was swept away in the flooding).
In the middle of the list -- a 58 year old Harrisburg PA man that died when a tree fell on his tent. Apparently, he was at some kind of gathering -- an Irene party, perhaps? -- and he was one of a few who decided to sleep outside in the storm. I tend to subscribe that every loss of life is sad, but this one does give me the so-called cause for pause.
Here's hoping the clean-up goes smoothly (and that the tenter referenced above wasn't any friend or relative of yours ...). And -- if you hadn't yet looked, Hurricane Jose is hitting Bermuda now!
AS OF SUNDAY MORNING, 18 DEATHS:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/hurricane-irene-deaths_n_939421.html
MY NAME IS ON A LIST FOR SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN TROPICAL CYCLONES:
http://severe.worldweather.org/tc/sp/tcname.html
THE OFFICIAL HURRICANE PRIMER:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
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