7:40 AM

TB is making espresso. I am incapacitated by looking at the photos of Irene destruction in Vermont:
Vermont Flooding 2011

Here's a place you can go to see how to help, which will be your immediate reaction after looking at those photos:
http://7d.blogs.com/blurt/2011/08/after-irene-how-you-can-help-vermont.html