Well, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it tonight if I were you, because it looks like Pastor John McTernan, the founder of Defend and Proclaim the Faith Ministries, is busy losing all that sleep for you -- and somehow also manages to link it all to previous attempts to bring about peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.

It makes perfect sense to shut down the entire transporation network. You certainly don't want people out and about in the middle of this storm, if it indeed comes as advertised -- and as I noted yesterday, one should always err on the side of caution in times like these.

Your constant stream of caustic remarks, which repeatedly denigrate those public officials such as Mayor Bloomberg who are quite obviously under a tremendous amount of stress right now, is both tiresome and wholly unnecessary.

Please feel free to parse and critique Hissoner's job performance AFTER the storm passes. Right now, in the face of a looming public threat, I'd suggest that you and other New York residents let him do his job, and further pay attention to his directives that you should look pro-actively to your own safety and well-being.

After all, I'd really hate to think that anything should somehow happen to you, and that your lasted posted words would be "That Bloomie -- what a d*ck!"

But this thing is up to 1000 miles wide.

Which means that when it passes south of NYC to avoid Jim Cantore and then turns north again just west of NYC, NYC is going to be subjected to first the northern part of the storm and then the eastern part without ever getting a short break like the places where the eye passes over.

Family member, who already had to move once within this country to get away from an anti-green governor and go to a friendlier state, now is looking at possibly having to leave this country -- again -- to stay working in the industry.  (It's more than a career; it's a cause for her.)

Speaking of, what do they do with wind turbines in a hurricane, do they produce a lot of juice of are they shut down ?

On the other hand, like so many of their siblings, this generation of Texas wasted no time selling off it's publicly traded utility built on investments spanning over a hundred years to the quick buck artists.

For its part, TXU was hardly a company that needed rescuing by the brightest minds on Wall Street. It was minting money in the partially deregulated Texas energy market, and in 2006 alone it generated about $2 billion in cash, after it paid interest on its debt and other bills, according to Moody's.  

The buyout group also sought friends in high places. It signed on several powerful Texas politicos as lobbyists, directors or advisers, including Ronald Kirk, the former mayor of Dallas who is now the Obama administration's trade representative; James A. Baker III, the former secretary of state and Bush family confidant, who was given a million shares as part of the buyout; Donald L. Evans, the former secretary of commerce; and Lyndon L. Olson Jr., a former Texas state representative.

I remember spending a good deal of time in my vehicle, from getting the latest damage reports to charging phones, and here in Houston getting some AC, maybe heat for the northerners.  I also remember hearing the yappers on AM radio who were more worried about who was at fault, then giving accurate information.  I didn't know who to believe and with all other communications out, including phones, AM radio was the only source of outside information for several days.  I wished I had figured out who was going to be giving good information because doing it on the fly was not easy.  One side acting liker the world ended, blaming the other, and the other acting like it was a light breeze and that their systems kept everyone safe.