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Goodnight Irene

It's all over but the singing.

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Goodnight Irene

POSTED: Sunday, August 28, 2011, 4:06 PM

Spent the morning riding shotgun with a Montco roofer-philosopher who was sealing basements and unclogging gutters. Got pretty wet while holding his ladder so I could get a storm column in tomorrow's paper. Saw lots of deer knee-deep in water that a day before had been fields. Saw lots of crumbled stone walls and yellow police tape and severed tree limbs and insane dog-walkers who got duped into thinking Irene had left.

She's pretty much gone now, though. It's all over but the singing. And the clean-up. Cue Ry Cooder.

Daniel Rubin @ 4:06 PM Permalink | 3 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:33 PM, 08/28/2011

Wow - it sounds like you were really went on a "field-trip", doing your homework! Hope the deer are o.k. I thought the worst had passed, until we lost power today, at 1:00 p.m. (now restored.) Thank you, again, so much, for the "Nils" - played it several times yesterday - got me through! And yes, happy "Clean-Up" to all!

— fineprintJK1

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:45 PM, 08/28/2011

What a "Dumb-Dora" Please omit the word "were" from the above - long night - much chaos - much water, not so much sleep. I did take comfort, though, (not just from the "Nils"), but from the depiction of your "creek-side home", with the "old, saggy, trees." Hope all was well - will see with your column tomorrow!

— fineprintJK1