{"id":2165,"date":"2011-08-27T05:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T05:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2011-08-27T05:13:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T05:13:53","slug":"thinking-about-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2011\/08\/27\/thinking-about-long-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about it quite hard. All of you who&#8217;re in the NY area at the moment&#8230; please be safe. Storms of this intensity that have hit the Island  in the past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngwizards.com\/ErrantryWiki\/index.php\/Shinnecock_Inlet\" target=\"_blank\">have changed its terrain.<\/a> (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lishore.org\/photos\/ShinHist\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">this sequence of images<\/a> for details and <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.sunysuffolk.edu\/mandias\/38hurricane\/weather_history_38.html\" target=\"_blank\">this description of the 1938 storm<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t play around with this one. If you&#8217;re on low ground, get out of harm&#8217;s way.<\/p>\n<p>(And people further down the coast, don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m not thinking about you too. Do what you need to do to be safe from this. &#8230;But I could hardly be blamed for thinking first about the place where I grew up and lived through a couple of hurricanes of my own&#8230;. a place that, after all. is just a big heap of sand and rubble that a glacier dumped and then went off to do other things.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/crisislanding.appspot.com\/?lat=40.89253892363253&#038;lng=-73.367919921875&#038;z=7&#038;layers=1314305721875%2C1314305570101&#038;t=roadmap\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/images\/irenetrack.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(The storm track map above isn&#8217;t live: please click on it to go to the live one.) Or use <a href=\"http:\/\/crisislanding.appspot.com\/?lat=40.89253892363253&#038;lng=-73.367919921875&#038;z=7&#038;layers=1314305721875%2C1314305570101&#038;t=roadmap\" target=\"_blank\">this link.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking about it quite hard. All of you who&#8217;re in the NY area at the moment&#8230; please be safe. 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