Image Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project
Today Hurricane Irene is working it's way up the East Coast and is expected to arrive in the Boston area sometime tomorrow.
With that in mind I've been doing what I can to get ready "just in case."
This afternoon I decided to go to the supermarket and the liquor store to stock up "just in case" there is a power failure.
I usually shop at a market that is about a fifteen minute ride for me, where the prices are reasonable. When I left my house it already looked threatening so I decided to go to a market and liquor store that is just around the corner.
Well, everyone and his brother had the same idea!
As I approached the liquor store I saw a very crowded parking lot and even before I parked the car I saw what was happening.
The place was so busy that people where lined up outside the liquor store waiting for their turn to get in!
Well, I didn't need to get involved with that. After all I still have a bottle of gin that I use to make my gin and raisin arthritis remedy mixture to alleviate my aches and pains!
So off to the market I went. There too the lot was crowded. I only go to this market for fill-ins since their prices are high. On an ordinary day you can breeze through the store but today was different. Loads of people buying loads of items.
The deli department was extremely busy. I don't usually buy cold cuts anymore but "just in case" we have a power failure I can make myself a sub and have a gin and tonic with it. It will have to be without ice cubes but what the heck!!
That reminds me, before I left the house I perked a pot of coffee which is now in my refrigerator.
"Just in case" the power goes out I can still have a cup of coffee even if it isn't hot. Have to have that coffee.
Hope all of you and your loved ones who are in Irene's path stay safe.