today would be the day of irene's arrival. as said before, the media professionally hypes things up, so you never know whether it really might be dangerous. we saw that with the snowstorms; yes, there was a lot of wind, and a lot of snow, and some areas lost power; but thats only because the power cables are above-ground here, so that happens rather easily.
even though we do not have a tv, warnings about irene were hard to avoid.... what to do on the day irene would come?! no public transport, and the mall in boston was closed as well. but the news this morning was pretty laughable: "although it technically is not a hurricane anymore, it's still a big threat!! there is still the possibility of incredible wind and water damage, even though we have not seen any wind or water damage yet. The winds are very mild so far, but they can potentially still have hurricane gusts among them".
so... off we went to the mall. we still had a coupon that was valid until today, and as true dutchies we had to spend that!! ok, the rain and wind were pretty heavy at times and many branches and even some trees were down. in the mall many shops were closed, unfortunately. thus we drove on to the beach for some further entertainment; ooh! what a surprise! there were quite some people there, and several were even swimming.... here some more photos.
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well I think they are pretty scared because of what happened during Katrina. Better too careful then too careless.....
yes, you are right about that. and its weekend anyways so it does not really matter for most people that there is no public transport etc...
but still... watching the news was painful at times, reporters desperately wanting to show that it really is a VEYR BIG storm indeed, though not really a hurricane, but, LOOK at this tree that came down.. etc.. almost wishing for bad things to happen while indeed we should be glad it all turned out (at least here) to be fine....
Wow, love to see those waves, at least some people were having fun. I agree with your opinion, here the weather stations are almost every week warning for code orange or any other colour which means don't move, stay in and nine of ten cases nothing happens. People cancel barbecues or parties for nothing. It is going to become a hype, we don't have hurricanes here do we? But nobody will be accused of not have warned fo danger.
i don't like hypes.
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