Do what I do: make peace with stains. Accept them as a necessary and colorful part of your wardrobe.

Eggs from your chickens or vegetables from your garden. I always bring that, and folks are always delighted.

No, sorry.

Yenta is actually originally a frwnch name, Gentille (jhentilleh) On second thought, that might not be a much better na,e for a Jewish girl.

What is a Jewish look in furniture?

Furniture store? I usually go to the Salvation Army Thrift Shoppe

dear Ursula. I listened to my mother. My underwear was spotless.

huzzah!

Oh, the humanity!

shocked! I’m shocked!

An ancient tree next door just split and fell in our yard, missing our house by just a few feet. No one is hurt, no power lines down, no real harm done. The warning against apikorsus is swift!

As further punishment, the town will be out there with chainsaws carving up the tree for hours. Nothing aids a good night’s sleep like the sound ofnchainsaws.

You can say that again!

Yes, oy vey, there are those who view this natural occurence as a warning from Hashem, but I view it as encouragement for us to continue to complete his work of creation, to observe, study and learn and apply that knowledge to reducing suffering in the world. The message could be, “job well done, but you can do better – next hurricane I would be more pleased if fewer of my children died.”

Yes

People get killed by thinking the worst is over, then going for a walk.

You usually see it only in archaic literary and poetic contexts today, but i was trying to raise the level of discourse here, in case haifagirl was reading. It’s been replaced by hurrah or hooray.

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! Thanlks to all the people who contribute to the minimal loss of life and minimal panic!

Definitrly not a drill. If things had played out a bit differently, it had the potential to be much, mich worse.

In Boston our power is out, our ceiling is dripping, but we are safe and secure.

My roof started leaking this afternoon – I hired a roofer to replace the entire roof over two weeks ago, so I am a bit angry at him.

why would they have been created if they did not have a purpose?

I ask myself this question about mosquitos, bedbugs and people who talk loudly on their phone while walking down the street. But I don’t ask it about hurricanes.

first report from immediately west of boston – it is very quiet here, no wind, no rain, few clouds. We are supposed to have the tropical winds starting in about three hours.

I am going to close the windows and go to sleep.

best wishes to all.

My call on these two disasters is that they are indications of Hashem’s great mercy. 100 years ago, either of these disasters would have killed hundreds or thousands of people, yet only a handful have been hurt, and a few have died in the hurricane.

It’s a bit like vaccines. Influenza and Pneumonia still exist, yet through the mercy of our Creator, many fewer suffer and die from them.

I am now officially an apikorus dude.

Just to add to that story: When I was a boy, in the 50’s 60’s and 70’s hurricanes would be tracked by having planes fly into the storm and try to find they eye. You can imagine how tricky and dangerous it was to fly a large plane loaded with a few people and hundreds of instruments through 100+ mph winds, monitoring the barometric pressure, air flow, rains and other indicators to try to find the eye of the storms. This was the only reliable way to track big tropical storms.

These missions were typically flown by United States Air Force Reserve’s 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron and later also the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hurricane Hunters.

Many of these hurricane hunters never returned. Another plane would be dispatched to do the same chore in a few hours, so the storm could be tracked.

People still fly planes into the storms because there’s some data that just can’t be gotten from satellites and other means.

I hope you will keep these people in your prayers tonight. It’s their efforts, bravery and sacrifice over the last 60 years that are the reason that only a dozen or so people will die from this storm, whereas 60 years ago a storm of this magnitude that passed through so many major urban areas would have killed hundreds if not thousands of people.

dear Tomche, until the 1950s, we would have an idea that a hurricane was coming if its eye went across land. Even then, the mechanics of these storms were not well understood and the predictions were not very good, but a poor prediction was better than no prediction at all.

Today, prediction is done with the help of the most powerful supercomputers available, along with satellite photos and measurements done by airplanes flying into the storm, along with a much better understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere.

As you’re sitting through the hurricane imagine that you had no warning. That you and your loved ones were out at school, work, shul, shopping and a storm such as this started. For a while it would be relatively indistinguishable from a violent thunderstorm, but you would soon realize (probably too late) that is was much more. Then you’d be in real peril. That’s why hundreds or thousands of people would die.