How did folks make out?

Midday Sat, we took one of the boys to his football game, which was insane with crazy wind and horizontal rain, but c'mon, kids love that (not so much adults)! Completely soaked, it made for a lovely traffic ridden, hour ride home BLAH! And sadly, the little tike lost his game by 7.

On the way home, stocked up on booze, munchies, and more booze and munchies. Made a giant pail of lasagna to last a couple days and just "couched" it for the rest of the duration. Watched some tube (Directv only went out for 1/2 the whole time, amazingly), played some videogames, and generally just enjoyed watching the storm out the windows.

No damage and no local flooding, and think we really lucked out on this one. We have had much worse summer thunderstorms. Irene spared many of us west of Annapolis/Baltimore.

To anyone who is "let down" that Irene wasn't as tough as they were led to be and consider that to have been a weak storm.... tell that to the people closer to the eastern shore who had absurd flooding, damaged homes, and even lost lives. Tired of hearing these selfish asses on the news.