izzie or izzn't he
style="padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;" />Have you been to Home Depot for
plywood and nails yet?
Are you stocked up on batteries, bread, bottled water, extra rain ponchos,
and assorted "theater size" boxed candies (on sale for 80 cents each at
Target)?
No?
Well, Dizzy Izzie is spinning her way in this direction.
A spokesman for Home Depot quoted on WTOP (AM news radio on D.C.) said
that once a storm is named and is targeting a specific area, stores in the
area freezes the price of plywood.
Now if they'd only convince people to buy snowblowers in July instead of
18 hours before the biggest blizzard of the decade hits.
Anyway, there's a good chance we in the greater Washington area will be
seeing heavy rains and gusty winds by the end of Thursday.
Seriously, it can't be much worse than the regular monsoon we've had the
past four months. I fully expect the area to become the next rain forest
before too long, if this keeps up.
But back to Izzie.
Now, if I was still at the DP, some paniced student editor might ask me a
question like, "Where are the generators in the building?"
Generators? At a college newspaper? Right. You didn't care when you
cancelled that one issue before Thanksgiving only because there were no
ads for the paper. Not having a paper because of a hurricane (or blizzard,
or power outage, or just because no reporters did any reporting for that
day) really wouldn't be such a big deal.
Though there was that one issue of The Dailiy Free Press completely
created from one photography editor's apartment during a localized power
outage. That was nuts.
So Izzie has us in her sights. The television coverage has started already
-- and it's not even a sweeps month (watch for big weather-related news in
November and February, it's fun to see the weather people whore
themselves out for higher ratings).
Basically the only two things I care about are that we don't lose power or
the cable (including the cable Internet connection). That would be a real
disaster...
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