'Cause Earl Had to Die

Na na nana naaaaa na...  The main thing in the news this week is Hurricane Earl.  I'm a weirdo, I love hurricanes.  Not the destruction they cause, but the coziness that comes with everyone hunkering down together.  We always make soup or chili, play board games when the electricity goes out, all the while listening to the storm howl outside.  My senior year of college Hurricane Isabel come tearing up the East Coast; W&M was evacuated and we missed two weeks of school.  It was a great little vacay even though we lost our Fall break.  But back to Earl. Earl is nowhere to be found up here in the Middle of Nowhere.  While the Outer Banks, NC looks like this right now:

Up here in this neck of the North Carolina woods, it looks just like this:

Not a cloud in sight, bright, sunny, and warm.  I guess hurricanes can't make it this deep into Appalachia.