Hurricane Irene

We all know about the recent hurricane, Irene. Some people got effected more than others. But, up where I live, everyone was panicking for nothing.

The news people always start out with a worst case scenario, and get more and more exact when the problem gets closer. They said that it was going to hit South Carolina, and work it's way up, until the hurricane hit New York. My dad is very practical, and knew that the chances of a actual hurricane hitting us was very slight. An actual hurricane has not hit Delaware since 1903, over one-hundred years ago. We have gotten hit by many "remnants of" or "moisture from" many other hurricanes, to many to count. Many have become tropical storms before they hit us. To get people to keep watching the news channel, they will do anything, include waste thousands of other people's money. people get stupid when they are scared. It's just what people do. The worst damage was flooding, maybe some fallen trees. one tornado was spotted, in Salem, New Jersey. THAT'S ALL!!!

My parents rented three movies for the weekend, Rango, Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and Red Riding Hood (adult movie). My cousins, Matt and Will, along with there dad, spent the night at our house because there apartments are infamous for flooding. My mom made a chocolate cake. It fell apart, but it was still delicious. We ate cake, watched movies, and laid around. My mom was sleeping.

While my mom was sleeping, I was playing games on her iPhone. My mom-mom (my mom's mom) called and said to me "Get down into the basement, there's a tornado in Stanton!" Stanton is literally right behind my house, so I woke my mom up and gave her the phone. I didn't know if this was just mom-mom being mom-mom, or if there was really a tornado heading for us. My mom said for everyone to get into the basement, and she headed down. She wasn't trying to get anyone else down, she was just went to the basement. I told the four little kids to get down in the basement (my two cousins and my two brothers) and the tried to coax our dog into the basement. My uncle's just sitting on the couch smiling. He has a really twisted sense of humor, maybe it's the brain surgery he had, or maybe it's just who he is. My dad was out front during all this, and he walks inside, and asks what we are doing. Mom explains that there is a tornado in Stanton. He argues with my mom that he was just outside, and there's no tornado. Yea, mom-mom just being mom-mom. 

The power flickered a few times during the night, but nothing major. We had a less then an inch of water in our basement. I fell asleep around one o'clock, and when I woke up the rain had stopped. The storm was downgraded to a tropical storm just before it hit. My uncle was missing. I found out that he had gone to a heavily flooded area after I was asleep, with an inflatable raft, and gotten himself arrested. It's just like him to do something like that. There was 21 deaths in eight states blamed on Irene, including an eleven year-old boy that had a tree fall on him. My aunt wrote on Face Book "Big thanks to the news station for the advice to buy food and flashlights!" Does she really need to have the news station to remind her to buy food? Again, panic makes people stupid. Like my dad predicted, Hurricane Irene was not all that the news stations said it would be.