http://www.farmersalmanac.com/blog/2011/08/29/good-night-irene/ Weather, Gardening, Full Moons, Best Days and more. Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:41:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.farmersalmanac.com/blog/2011/08/29/good-night-irene/#comment-9736 Frutero Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:32:42 +0000 http://www.farmersalmanac.com/?p=12478#comment-9736 I have lived in Florida most of the time since 1956, in Dade County until 20 years ago, and since then, in Volusia County. No hurricane the size and strength of Irene is ever overhyped. She came ashore in Killdevil Hills, N. C., a fairly sparsely-populated area that had already been evacuated, and the force of her winds was spent by the time she passed over the Mid- Atlantic states. Nonetheless, far more hurricane deaths are by water than by wind, and she brought plenty of that. A zig instead of a zag, and she could have been Katrina; a little less precaution, and New York City and the whole coast from Wilmington, Delaware, to Cape Cod, Massachussets, could have put New Orleans in the shade. Dumb snowbirds have hurricane parties. Old sandsuckers like me have long ago learned to treat hurricanes with respect, and those who want to get as old as me should do as much.

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