I have been watching the news today....waiting for my youngest to get up from oral surgery...And I have to say...Every one seems to be heeding this Hurricane warning...and they are moving out in an orderly fashion!
For those of you closer to what is going on...How does it seem for you???
It is nice to see in the wake of Chaos we can still ban together to protect one another:)
Around here - in Washington, D.C. people haven't been evacuated like in NYC - but I've seen things that I haven't seen in 10 years - since 9/11 - I know a hurricane is VERY different than an attack - but I think the earthquake AND the upcoming hurricane - people have realized....gotta work together!!!
I think that after Katrina, we all take a big hurricane a little more seriously. And it's been a little more than a year since we had flooding here like we've never seen before, where areas that never get wet were washed out so that's fresh in people's minds. I'm sure that the extreme recent weather everywhere has people a little more alert to what mother nature can do. Up here the only thing going on is that people are preparing for power outages and a lot of Sunday events were moved ahead of time (a Kenny Chesney concert, some Red Sox games, and all local events that I know of). There were no flashlights at Target tonight and the water aisle at BJs was about half empty. It'll be interesting to see what happens in another few days. Hopefully this will just fizzle out, but in case it doesn't there doesn't seem to be that hard-headed "bring it on" bluster that we sometimes see. I'm sure that if the coast gets evacuated (especially the Cape and islands) we'll see those "I ain't movin' for no dang storm" people on the news LOL but for the most part, people have been pulling boats out of the water since Wednesday so that might be minimal too.
Dear East Coasters, we love you! Stay safe!
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I'm a little late on this one--the storm is over, and I just wanted to say that I love how close people can become when there is a natural disaster. It's pretty much the ONLY upside to them. We evacuated from our city and went to our friends' house 1.5 hours away (we live in an area that's VERY prone to storm surges) where we were welcome with open arms. Our friends don't have any kids and don't really want kids for a while, but they went to the store before we got there and got all kinds of "kid food" (I think it's all the stuff HE always wantss to eat but SHE never lets him :p ) and they even got my kids toys and movies to be entertained at their house. We lost power pretty quickly up there but we had a lovely time sitting on their porch, watching the storm and chit-chatting while playing candy land over and over and over again. It was great for us to have our friends be part of our real life--usually we only see most of our friends when we have a babysitter since we are the only ones who have kids yet. Our home is safe and sound and all of our neighbors faired well except for a few fallen trees. Hope everyone else on the east coast is okay :)
