Impending Doom

Perhaps I am being a bit cynical about it, but the meterologists are anticipating that Hurricane Irene will be a Category 3 storm. Working at the hotel, I have received so many calls about people wanting rooms because their towns have administered a voluntary evacuation. I witnessed many people reacting about this storm and thought to myself that they were over-reacting. Then I began to wonder if I should be reacting at least in some way. So I looked up more information about it, and am not quite sure that it will hit my area as hard as some are anticipating. But I am thinking that I should prepare in some way, just in case. My terrific little brother is coming over today for lunch so I will try to convince him to take me to the store to pick up a few things since I won't have the car today. I'm not really sure what to get though. Non-perishables, obviously, but everything in the house runs on electric so it has to be things that don't need to be cooked. And the only thing that makes me a bit nervous about the current situation is that my future in-laws house is an old farmhouse, including old farmhouse windows.