Others will have posted images and discussion of Hurricane Irene and the damage it caused.
I want to be curmudgeonly about the hype leading up to it.
Politicos and news media need us to be on edge and upset. It doesn't matter if it's worry or anger, as long as it's intense - because if we're not on edge, they're not center-stage.
At last report, only about twenty to 25 people died in this storm that had been the center of the news for days. Of these, at least two had been surfing (surfers love the big waves generated in storms) and another was sleeping outdoors in a tent after a party when I tree fell on him. So at least three of these deaths were due to invincible stupidity. Even so, to have so few deaths from an incident that got this much advance attention demeans the meaning of every future warning.
I have no faith, anymore, that any warning I receive, that is not accompanied by a weapon, has any value at all.
Politicos and news media, your shouting will have more value if you ever spoke calmly - just for the variety of it.
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