My prayers for all those in the path of Irene.

Besides the wind, it is the rain to look out for. Hurricane Agnes in 1972 caused A LOT of flooding along the Chemung and Susquehanna Rivers in NY and PA. It was a slow moving storm. The flood was called a 100 year flood. It sounds like Irene is moving right along, I hope so in order to keep the amount of rain down.

It would be better if the rain was headed for the drought stricken area of Texas.