Yes, here we go again! Just when us Eastern North Carolinians thought we could clean up from Floyd --BAM! Here comes Irene. Since I'm an ECU student, I have to live up here in Greenville, NC which is in Pitt County, which undoubtedly saw the worst damage & flooding from Floyd. My apartment came through fine, in fact, during the hurricane, I was watching the storm reports of TV and playing a little Celtic guitar. My family home is in Hubert, in Onslow county, where hurricanes Bertha, Fran, and Bonnie all made landfall, and from what I hear on the news, Irene will make landfall in Onslow too. (I just spent the last 2 hours coming here from Hubert--non-stop torrential downpours all the way!)I hope everything will be allright. Rain in not what we need--e.g. in Kinston (45 minutes from Greenville) the Neuse River, which is still at 16 ft (6 feet above flood stage) was going to crest at 18 ft after last week's rain, could rise another 7 ft if Kinston receives a mere 5 inches of rain. This is Mbo signing off from the soggiest spot in the world.

--Mbo

P.S. I'm still working on my song "The Ballad of Hurricane Floyd"