Yeah; the 'media blitz' has reached comic proportions here around the nations' capital. Unbelivably enough, we did not lose power, and its the first storm of any kind, even a summer thunderstorm, that did not knock it out! The local wisdom is that the new transformer substation they built after Hurricane Isabel a few miles up the road from us saved our bacon. We had the strong winds (max around here near Dulles Airport were around 30-40 with gusts up to 55mph) when she blew through here around 2AM Sunday morning. By 10AM the sky was sunshiney and bright with big fleecy clouds, temps in the hi 60s, and a wonderful breeze all morning long. Virtually no large trees down anywhere around, another miracle! Home Depots and Lowe's ran out of D-cell batteries and 8-ft. lengths of perforated as well as solid black plastic drain pipe by around 9AM Saturday. I wrote off the media after a sweet young thing cub reporter gushed just after the recent local earthquake near Charlottesville, VA: "Despite widespread damage on the ground, there does not appear to be any threat of a tsunami at this time."
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