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My name is Howard Hughes and this is the unexplained

Welcome to my world as singer once sang. There was a Jim Reeves back in the day

It is a weird world at the moment as I record these words

The United States Eastern Seaboard is staring down the barrel of Hurricane Irene

I was up at half past three this morning to go to my day job reporting news on radio in London

And it was one of our main talking topics on air without a doubt

And the scale of this thing potentially enormous. I know that ABC News for one

Was part of a crew of people who flew over

Hurricane Irene

Underneath it were temperatures in the ocean of 85 degrees Fahrenheit

Now that's gonna act like a pressure cooker fueling this thing

So the authorities in New York

And Washington and other parts of the Eastern Seaboard who had taken this really seriously

And declaring states of emergencies six states. I think so far have declared those as I speak these words

They're right to take precautions for what is just the latest in a catalog of weird phenomena

Not only have we seen storms of various kinds but also earthquakes through this year if you're in the Eastern Seaboard of the United States

You know you had one of those very recently now you're getting this storm and the year started

With a quake in New Zealand with a quake and tsunami in Japan

What a strange year this has been plus also I think that

Events in this world seem to be speeding up

And very much I've been thinking of and rereading a book by Art Bell my radio hero

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