I’m self-deploying myself as an emergency response team, and I just completed a check of the perimeter. A lot of leaves and small branches are down, but knowing that Hurricane Irene hasn’t reached NYC yet, and watching the trees blowing here, hundreds of miles north, I can see the possibility of catastrophe in the making. I’ll consider us lucky if we only lose power and Internet access.
Update: It’s almost 3 in the afternoon and I think we may be through the worst of it. The rain has let up and the wind is dying down. There are lots of branches in the yard and I went outside to collect the biggest of them.