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In case anyone was concerned, I made it through my first hurricane with minimal difficulty. In fact, I have never experienced a natural disaster about which there was so much advance warning (unless you count crackpots predicting earthquakes). So I was able to spend much of Wednesday buying things I already should have had around (bottled water, fire extinguishers, duct tape, extra batteries, a battery-operated radio), go to class Thursday morning, and hunker-down Thursday afternoon. Said hunkering involved going to a friend’s apartment, watching the trees getting blowing back and forth and small bits of the roof flying through the air, reading the new Sandman, and watching the same TV coverage everyone else was seeing. Once it was over there was debris sprinkled all around the apartment complex, but nothing that looked too damaged. We had occasional power interruptions, but none lasting for more than a minute. Eventually the cable modem stopped working, but it is hard to separate that from everyday life with Time Warner. It seemed that the storm had not hit us as hard as we thought.

As we gathered more information, it seems that the area was hit harder than we were. Most of the rest of the town had no power, and a number of roads were blocked off by fallen trees and power lines. I haven’t ventured out on the town to see if things have gotten better there, but it looks like a beautiful day here. The only real repercussion of all this is that I had to cancel a brief vacation. Disappointing, but all things considered that is not too bad.

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