I sometimes think that these few inches of newsprint where my column appears every two weeks have magical powers.
In the past couple of months, there have been multiple instances where something I have written about right in my column has actually happened.
Take the July 29, 2010, issue, for example. My column, aptly titled “Thankful for the rain but praying a flood is not in our future,” was written days after Shallotte experienced a several-hour power outage during an afternoon rainstorm.