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Natural Disaster Week

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It’s been a big week for natural disasters here in Virginia.  First a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, complete with aftershocks (which caused a lot of excitement but we didn’t suffer any discernable damage), now we’ve got Hurricane Irene bearing down on us.

We’re all set with batteries and flashlights and whatnot, but we have no generator here in the suburbs.  It’s tempting to get one, but a gennie wouldn’t help with an Internet outage, and electricity without Internet is hardly worth the effort.  (Who cares if the food spoils?  I need to surf the web!)  It’s not going to be anything like the 10-day-power-outage that we got from Isabel anyway.  The worst part will be convincing the dogs to go outside in the rain.

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