* * * * * And now we wait Well, let's see … 1. Food … ✓ 2. Water … ✓ 3. Shutters … ✓ 4. Clean porch … ✓ 5. Batteries … ✓ (except for 6 volt batteries—we didn't get any in time) 6. Gas … ✓ 7. Kerosene … ✓ 8. Generator … ✓ 9. Obsessively checking the National Hurricane Center [1] for updates … ✓ Nothing much more to do than to wait. … … … Are we there yet? [1] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ Email author at sean@conman.org .