Well done, NautiNurse! Good links and info. I’m out in Colorado, but I have close friends in Hampstead, MD, and I’ll be following the news on Irene.
To all mid-Atlantic-coast and New England FReepers, good luck!
Thank you.
Husband and I are on the coast of Delaware, about 14 miles from the ocean. It's been quite a week here in the swamps of Delaware, quite a week, God Bless.
I wrote an article about our experience because we have not only experienced an earthquake this past week, now the hurricane, Sussex County Delaware, the county that finally threw out Mike Castle in the last election, is being invaded by.....EXTREME MAKEOVER HOME EDITION!!!
Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Extreme Makeover Home Edition, oh my!
Indeed three miles from my house this popular ABC series is building a new home and....go to the link to see the pics! Taken by me...citizen journalist, fighting the elements, the moving earth, the grocery store crowds, to take the pictures ON MY CELL PHONE FROM MY MOVING CAR!!!
You must smile.
For I write a reality TV show column at the link above, called "Facing Reality....(TV)" and what should come to town to cause me grimaces and pain? A TV REALITY SHOW!
Last week it was the earthquake, this weekend the hurricane. The ABC site is going on and on because they're fighting to finish the thing before the hurricane comes. Roads around here blocked and closed (see my pics at the link...did I say that?), fights over local school district hauling the workers to and from the site on taxpayer dime, recipient of stimulus funds in a bit of scandal being the main contractor of the site, hardware store site of locals trying to buy hurricane supplies packed and jammed with cute Extreme Makeover Home Edition dressed in cute white painter overhauls and white hats.
My hope is that this time next week I will be able to stand tall and proud with the wind at my back, and tell the world that in one week, ONE WEEK in this sleepy burg, we survived an earthquake, a cat 2 hurricane and EXTREME MAKEOVER HOME EDITION!
Can you see this show when it airs? Ty Pennington with his bullhorn, shouting to the viewers across the fruited plains that the Home Makeover crew survived an earthquake and hurricane to get that thing built? AND IT'S TRUE!
All documented by this humble citizen journalist. Heh. Praise me very much.