Now that Irene has passed, I look back and take note of a few things.

The storm was not nearly as bad as predicted. This is typical. The media plays up these things because they make money from the scare. What was different was the government reaction. Leaders from both parties are too quick to evacuate after the Katrina (political) disaster. All the attacks on Bush are now causing us to close down commerce far too easily. I blame this on the left that used Katrina to score cheap political points. Those cheap points are now costing us.

The second lesson to be learned is that computer models have a long way to go. If the forecasters can’t tell us the strength of hurricanes that already exist, isn’t a bit of a stretch to pressume they can tell us the strength of hurricanes in 2020 or 2030? We have come a long way with computer models and I have no doubt that they have saved lives…but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Lastly…I prepared and I’m glad I did. I started putting 1 gallon milk jugs filled with water into the freezer earlier in the week. We lost power for nearly 24 hours and all the meat in the freezer stayed frozen. I see this hurricane as a test run for a bigger power disruption. I have learned that I need a different kind of power inverter to run my refrigerator from my Truck battery.

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