Comparatively speaking, New Jersey is not as troubled as more northern climes. It's a bit warmer and more carefree. My daughter and I were out to breakfast this morning and the radio was playing "My Favorite Things" as if it were a Christmas carol. As we were discussing the merits of the radio station playing this song from The Sound of Music as if it were a holiday favorite, the Emergency Broadcasting System suddenly interrupted the song with buzzes and tones. Ironic, isn't it, that this song was meant to help you forget about your troubles and think about something nice and here they were displacing the song so we could worry about who knows what on such a nice day? When the test was over and all the statements of what we were to do in an actual emergency, the song was still playing and life went on. We didn't even have to stop eating our omelets.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Out From the Cold in Manchester
Red Cross redeployed my wife from Nashua to Manchester, NH, where they have four shelters to help deal with those displaced by the ice storm. 200,000 remain without power in the state. See slide show1 and slide show 2 of ice storm effects.
Comparatively speaking, New Jersey is not as troubled as more northern climes. It's a bit warmer and more carefree. My daughter and I were out to breakfast this morning and the radio was playing "My Favorite Things" as if it were a Christmas carol. As we were discussing the merits of the radio station playing this song from The Sound of Music as if it were a holiday favorite, the Emergency Broadcasting System suddenly interrupted the song with buzzes and tones. Ironic, isn't it, that this song was meant to help you forget about your troubles and think about something nice and here they were displacing the song so we could worry about who knows what on such a nice day? When the test was over and all the statements of what we were to do in an actual emergency, the song was still playing and life went on. We didn't even have to stop eating our omelets.
Comparatively speaking, New Jersey is not as troubled as more northern climes. It's a bit warmer and more carefree. My daughter and I were out to breakfast this morning and the radio was playing "My Favorite Things" as if it were a Christmas carol. As we were discussing the merits of the radio station playing this song from The Sound of Music as if it were a holiday favorite, the Emergency Broadcasting System suddenly interrupted the song with buzzes and tones. Ironic, isn't it, that this song was meant to help you forget about your troubles and think about something nice and here they were displacing the song so we could worry about who knows what on such a nice day? When the test was over and all the statements of what we were to do in an actual emergency, the song was still playing and life went on. We didn't even have to stop eating our omelets.
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