This ain’t no foolin’ around

This alert from the National Weather Service is almost hysterical:

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BEDOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

Hat tip to Poliblog who notes: “it reads like a hoax.” It sounds like America’s going to have a tsunami-level disaster on hand very soon.