Silence Before the Storm or Oh Crap

Hurricane Irene has hit NewYork City! Yesterday was silent. No one was on the streets, there were hardly any cars out. Practically all the stores were closed and the only ones open were little supermarkets and convenient stores, but they were open so that any panicky person could get their last minute supplies and food for the upcoming storm. It was quiet. It rained on and off yesterday, but It never rained really hard. At night Irene comes for a visit. There's lightning and it is pouring! Thankfully the winds were minimal. I woke up in the morning and my dad told me that Hurricane Irene is no longer considered a hurricane. Its just a tropical storm. Big Whop. There goes all the excitement. It stopped raining before noon.

Something cool that I did yesterday, was that between the little rain showers,  my dad and I took a walk. On this walk we passed a 9/11 memorial of a bunch of tiles people painted and hung op with wires on this metal fence in Greenwich village. There were people there taking down all the tiles to help save them from the hurricane, the destruction of the building they were outside of and to move them to the New World Trade Center. We stopped to help them. As this went on, more and more people stopped to help. It wasn't really an organized group of people doing this, it was just people taking a walk while they could. It was amazing that we took down hundreds of tiles in so little time. Some guy who stopped to help said that he had made one of those tiles. It was a really neat experience.

I'm sorry I didn't post a picture for your thoughts last time, so here is one now:

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