HURRICANE IRENE: Krugman has a music suggestion, and appropriate it is.
SPEAKING OF WHICH: Are there any nuclear power plants which lie in the storm's path? Xeni Jardin points to a list which reveals there are! Quite a few, in fact. (Sorry, in advance, for the slowness of the Associated Press' hosted news website. You'd think that an organisation of such standing would have better servers. Awful.)