Turn, Earl, Turn!

Thursday September 2, 2010

Two hundred and fifty thousand coastal residents of North Carolina are under a mandatory evacuation. Hurricane Earl is bearing down on the Eastern Coast of the United States with maximum sustained winds of 145 miles per hour. If our luck holds this category 4 hurricane will not make landfall and will instead stay offshore to track its way up the coastline.
However you must not be lulled into a false since of security by this possibility. Earl is a solid category 4 hurricane with mb reading of 932 at the present time. Most disturbing, it has not yet made the critical turn required to keep its path from making landfall. Please remember that the flooding, storm surges, and destructive winds associated with a hurricane of this magnitude will impact areas located hundreds of miles away from the eye. If an evacuation has been ordered for your area then you must leave now.
If you live outside the threatened area and would like to help out I have an idea. Let's all focus our minds on the dangerous well-formed eye of this hurricane and chant, "Turn Earl Turn!" Everybody believes in the power of positive thought right? Then let's pray, chant, and send our positive energy to the threatened area. The people along the North Carolina coast have just been pounded in recent years by storms and they deserve a break.

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