How spend Hurricane?
I am writing this from the store for coffee. This is the second I have camped in today. My power is still in the House (Con Ed best estimate is Sunday at midnight) and local cafes have become loading stations. Right now I'm surrounded by jumbles of wires; professionals and families alike are snaked cables from markets for tables, juicing its laptops and portable DVD players, iPods and phones.
Hurricanes more than shake. They can scan your life and see what should be saved and what can go. In a wonderful essay in opinion pages in Monday writer Abby killed Sher Afghan writes about how she and her family spent their hurricane, as well as lessons learned even from the storm, which has not suffered.
I offer it here for discussion for several reasons. First, I recognize in my own life, his description of the moment when Mrs. Sher and her husband, Jay, aware that they are somehow "different" in the House. Not all we wondering how the heck this happened?
Secondly it offers space for all of you to share your own Hurricane moments.
And mostly, I thought that this delicious mangling of the words of Mrs. Sher 2-year-old daughter, Sonia, will make you smile:
"And so, to be a major storm will now!" Jay cheerfully, said giving a high five.
"Even, there may be thunder" I said, trying to smile.
"I do not like funder," Sonya says pout made succinct.
"Right, sometimes we don't like thunder, but this is the only clouds, boiling in another," explains I.
"Funder begins with FUN!" Jay cheered.
"Funder is scary, because I'm afraid with funder," Sonia justified.
"Funder! Entertainment-der! And Gramma come, too! "
We missed the part about it was evacuated from his new home of long island.
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