Book Board Chat

Good Day Everyone! Had a spot shower from an outer outer outer band of Irene this morning. not enough rain to drive the chickens under shelter.

Regardless whether or not Irene hits or not at whatever strength. there will be rain and there will be wind and there will be power outages. And because there is such a large area effected [affected?] there won't be power crews from the next county/state over running to help fix things [assuming the roads were clear]. Jeannie knocked out power for however many thousand of homes in Tampa [at just tropical storm level] and they were out of power for several weeks because the crews still hadn't gotten things fully working from Charlie [much less Francis, Ivan et al]. Remember poor aquiltmaven had to go to a hotel just to get air conditioning/hot water for a few days as a respite?

Hand crank radios are nice. Look for them for the next storm. Ditto with the hand crank flashlights [most of the hand crank radios are flash lights too]. And those stick in the ground solar lights can be used inside too.