Hurricane Irene

After the 5.9 earthquake on Aug. 23 in VA that we felt here in NJ, hurricane Irene arrived yesterday. As I kept telling everybody on the days leading up to yesterday, I wasn’t worried at all. Coming from the Philippines where we always experience typhoons, this was nothing new to me. But East Coasters aren’t familiar with hurricanes … or earthquakes. Panic buying of food stuffs and water and batteries and generators happened. People were boarding up their windows and evacuating low lying and coastal areas. I’m not saying it’s not good to be prepared. Of course the evacuation of coastal areas were a precaution so that if Irene did become destructive, casualties will be lessened. Public transportation were halted from buses and subways, to planes. NY basically became a ghost town. A friend of mine and I were bummed that we didn’t live in NY coz this would have been a great opportunity to take pictures and videos of an empty NY =P

Anyway, so we didn’t prepare anything for Irene. I really felt that she wasn’t a threat where we live. So Saturday came and the rain began in the afternoon. Not even heavy rain, just normal rain. No winds either. That continued till this morning. Our garage had some water just coz the drain right outside was kinda clogged. Jojo had to snake the drain and vacuum all the water out of the garage.

The rains stopped sometime before noon and then the winds picked up. It’s still very windy right now, but no more rain. See? What did I tell ya? My hunch was correct (^_^) There was no cause for worry.