Looking out, as I write this on Thursday afternoon, I see the cover of dark blue clouds, occasional showers, and just a hint of breeze.
I try to imagine how all this will change over the next 48 to 72 hours.
This line of storms is approaching us relative to the visitor from the tropics, which is the time to read this would be ready to knock on the battened-down hatches in southern and central New England.
Throughout the week, endless speeches Irene I feel two ways: as giddy as a spoiled child at Christmas or apprehension as a future father, uninsured - with a good measure of complaints on the side.
The late Tony Privitera, the legendary co-founder with his wife of Merrimack Valley, Tony and Anna, it is often said its brand fresh pizza, soup, "We love it or hate it." The same is true of major weather events especially girls ol as Irene, who rarely have enough juice to live here.
To say the weather geek like "love" of big storms does not mean, of course, we offer the "love" to see people incur property damage - hey, my home life under a canopy of branches, , pushed by people like Irene, could easily find their way through the roof.
I think those of us who cheer and eat, breathe and live Weather Channel and weather.com when these things are the way we control the sense of wonder, knowing that only a science, and no one but Mother Nature can do nothing to change or stop natural phenomena like Irene.
This relative calm before the storm known, I thought I would see how I could go to North America, the history of the 'hurricane, and was pleasantly surprised to impact well in an old book called, simply, "The historical storms in New England" , wrote in 1891 in Salem, Massachusetts, Gent as Sidney Perley.
