Irene

You remember my "death wish" last week, on Tuesday, Aug 16? Quote: "All we need now is a big hurricane!" Quite prophetic, wouldn't you say? The National Hurricane Center is now predicting that in about 5 days, Florida MAY have a close encounter with Irene. She is now churning in the Carribbean and may head for us. By that time, she may be big, a category 3 hurricane, which means she may be a major hurricane. Just what we need! Of course, all grocery stores are jam-packed and all water bottles are gone. Look again at all the beautiful trees I have shown you in this blog. If we get a Cat 3 direct hit, that would be a catastrophe. If you look at the forecast map, realize that the error is quite large, up to 250 miles at 5 day forecast. Translation into English, we may get nothing much... or we may get a direct hit. 50/50 chance. When I start to panic, I'll let you know.