While we in the Chattanooga area are enjoying our accustomed hot, clear summer weather, some parts of the Caribbean have been enduring a hurricane, and millions of Americans remain shaken after an earthquake that was centered in Virginia.
Hurricane Irene has swept from the Bahamas and is projected to approach the North Carolina coast by Saturday.
But it could strike any portion of the East Coast, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was urging residents of his huge city to make preparations.
Meanwhile millions of people – from Georgia to Canada – felt an earthquake on Tuesday. It was said to have been the strongest shaking on our East Coast since World War II.
The quake, of 5.8 magnitude, reportedly created a crack atop the famed 555-foot-tall Washington Monument in the District of Columbia.