Since I moved to NY about 2 month ago I have been witness to one of the worst heat waves of the past hundred years, one of the very rare earthquakes of this area and now one of few very rare occasions when one of the hurricanes makes it all the way up here. That is quite some collection for a brand new NYC boy. The Hurricane named Irene is expected to hit us during the small hours between Saturday and Sunday. The city panicked and cancelled all communal transportation from noon on the Saturday. At five or six it had started to pour but no winds had yet penetrated this far. Now at ten the rain is steadily pouring but the hard winds are still to emerge, although it seams like it is blowing up some. Most of the city has been quite and calm during the day, the calm before the storm is fitting in two ways. The Hurricane has been down graded to a one now so it does not seem to be much danger, except that people on the waterfront will have some flooding to deal with. But the exact outcome of this remains to be seen. I am sure I will have to come back to this tomorrow or sometime in the future.
What I may add is that my visiting friend misses out on some of the he was expecting but he has gotten some other very unique experiences instead.
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