It's The End Of The World As We Know It..

So, let's review: in less than a week, we have had 2 earthquakes, a tornado & a hurricane; what the flock is going here? I've seen a lot of crazy things weather-wise in my life, but this short span of meterological madness beats all; watching all the coverage of Hurricane Irene before & almost all day after the wife & I ventured out early this morning to stock up on groceries, etc., you see all the images & all the reporters getting variously soaked & nearly blown-away, & you hear all the details, you watch press conferences & updates from the Mayor & the Governor, but even now, as I hear the steady, heavy rains pelting my doors & windows, you somehow still find it hard to fathom what's happening & what's supposed to still be coming--everyone keeps saying various versions of this, to each other, on Facebook & everywhere else, but in all seriousness, we have obviously pissed off the big man upstairs (no, NOT my landlord!! LOL), because this is just some CRAZY shit; seeing & hearing about all the shutdowns of mass transit, major roads, bridges & thruways, all the evacuations (& all the people who refuse to leave their homes), as well as the afore-mentioned requisite soggy weather & news reporters & anchors, we are truly getting bitch-slapped for a litany of transgressions against the powers-that-be (I believe the technical term is "Oo-FAH!!"); and then to see that by Tuesday, the forecast is nice weather the rest of the week, well then, sure, why not?? Let's have almost- debilitating wind & rains, flooding, power outages, & widespread panic (the emotion, not the band), fear & general hysteria for 3 days, minimum--I just think that we all need to make sure we did all we could to prepare for it & deal with it & get thru it as best as we can; 1st & foremost, we're New Yorkers, dammit, & it's going to take a lot more than this (no matter how much of a test this is) to break our spirits & test our resillience; it's scary & unnerving to have to deal with the weather when it's this severe & this threatening, but we've done it before & we'll do it again; with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 (and even typing "10th anniversary", I can't believe it) exactly 2 weeks away, this doesn't come close to what we can endure, no matter how painful & devastating--and so I say Good Nite to you all & tell you to be safe & be smart--peace, my friends :)