Procrastinet

Good Night, Irene

filed under: Stuff to worry about

My years of addiction to the National Hurricane Center site, coupled with my conviction that some new disaster is always in the offing for New York City, have finally borne fruit:

Tropical Storm Irene is the first tropical cyclone in many years that has the chance of bouncing up along the Atlantic coast and slotting into New York Harbor like an eight ball in the corner pocket.

I mean, it's not *likely.* At all. In fact, there's very little chance for it to happen. And I certainly hope like hell it doesn't happen.

But it does provide the first little frisson of anticipation that some time late next week we could be living a made-for-TNT disaster movie.

[Plus, I wanted to be the first one to use the title for this post, before the newspapers are all over it. w00t!]

UPDATE:

As of 5am today, the line has veered heavily NYC-ward. Another report is due at 11am EST. But for now:

UPDATE 2:

As of 11am, Irene is predicted to drift East and out to sea, but the "Discussion" notes that track prediction after 72 hours is currently more or less impossible.

UPDATE 3:

Ha-HA! I have SAVED us!

UPDATE 4:

Pretty little monster, ain't she? [Thanks to Dave for leaving that in comments...]

Posted by rjt at August 11, 2005 01:06 PM