At the moment she looks like a Peter Max valentine card, but Hanna is heading up the Carolina coast and seems to have both of my abodes -- New Jersey and Long Island -- in her crosshairs.
I think it makes the most sense to stay here in NJ this weekend. My parents do have plenty of neighbors and relatives nearby to help them out and since my house floods so easily lately, I think I need to be here to make sure everything is OK.
So, what are you plans? Or, haven't you thought about it yet?

stop pulling weeds until it stops raining. well, the town says they are weeds. lilies, irises, mint, clematis, daisies, queen anne's lace, hostas, violets and the patch with 4-, 5- and 6-leafed clovers.
if the town thinks i am going to plant grass, they are full of fertilizer. i hate grass.
i will also bring the bicycles in off the porch.
then i will do the mending that i haven't been doing because i have been working outside.
i am probably the only person to welcome the storm. as long as no one gets hurt from it and the wind isn't too bad, it will give me a much needed break.
Posted by: lwt | September 05, 2008 at 02:22 PM
It's going to give me the chance to clean out closets in the girl's rooms and see what still fits (probably NOTHING) from last season and bake some cookies with them, since my husband has to work all day. I hope the storm isn't so bad and that the flooding, if any, is minimal for everyone.
Posted by: Michelle | September 05, 2008 at 03:00 PM
Get a six pack of Yuengling Lager and food! A storm without food? No way!
Posted by: John | September 05, 2008 at 04:17 PM
I live on high ground and I'm on the second floor....but a couple blocks up is the Lodi water tower and I always wondered what would happen to the houses below it if it ever blew.
Guess it won't be a good day to wash my car, huh? :)
Posted by: Linda | September 05, 2008 at 04:34 PM
Retaping the plastic in the master bedroom on the first floor that has a leak that is smack in the center of my bed, otherwise. (There's a single shingle missing off the room on that side of the house, where it percolates through an inaccessible crawlspace on the second floor, and travels, somehow, to the center of the ceiling downstairs!)
Posted by: evelyn | September 05, 2008 at 05:36 PM
That's "roof" not "room" - opps.
Posted by: evelyn | September 05, 2008 at 05:37 PM