Weather nerds get very excited about storms. Brendan Loy is having fun with Irene.
I can say for certain that I would reconsider any sailing plans around the Outer Banks, the Chesapeake, New Jersey or southern New England this weekend. I remember being on Martha's Vineyard a day after Hurricane Bob. Big waves. They were already selling "I Got Blown By Bob" t-shirts. Let no hurricane go to waste.
Somewhere, somebody is already printing tees with "I Got Blown By Irene" - just in case they do.
Irene seems to be weakening, to Brendan's ill-concealed disappointment.
Everybody needs something to do during the few hours the storm passes, and probably in the darkness thereafter. We do not mean to make light of storms, but definitely to make light of the hype around them. Hurricane Irene is weakening as I wr
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