Here's an interesting post I'd like to share with you. Seems there is some proof that if we all pray to have Hurricane Irene take a more north easterly course, we might be able to keep it away from our heavily populated East Coast:

Help Me Stop Irene, It Worked Before

I've already been praying. it can't hurt and doesn't take much time. How about you?

Oh, in case you don't have time to read the link - here's the suggested prayer:

What if YOU, yes you… sent a single thought
directed AT Hurricane Irene… what if
you cared enough about humanity to send
a single, powerful suggestion through
the cosmos and time/space itself…

“Hurricane Irene, move northeast and
dissipate into nothing. This or something
better.” (we always want to add this for
our higher mind knows better than we do)

See Hurricane Irene, just imagine the
cyclone suddenly moving NorthEast, off
shore and away from the east coast…

from there, it becomes disorganized,
and soon dissipates to nothing, safely
out in the middle of the Ocean…

Feel the electric charge of emotion
saturating the entire east coast with
relief, with celebration of life…

See it, feel it… watch it happen.