News: Battening down the hatches...

As a lifelong South Floridian, I've become inured to hurricane panic. At the beginning of every season, my family (and pretty much the entire area) stocks up on water, canned food, batteries, and the like, to the point where a tropical storm or Category 1 doesn't even raise an eyebrow around these parts.

For my readers up north, who are facing the novel threat of Hurricane Irene, here's a nice primer called "Surviving the Storm" by local station WPTV: