Movie of the Week

Here's a scenario:

Hurricane Irene skips along the Eastern Seaboard until it gets to Boston Harbor, where it makes a sharp left and hits Boston head on after reving up to Category 4 due to the abnormally warm waters of Cape Cod, caused of course by global warming.  A plucky young meteorologist, structural engineer, and exotic dancer sees it coming, but is disregarded by her older, more conservative managers, who are blinded by their greed and maleness.  They don't want her freaking out the tourists just before Labor Day, closing the beaches, and destroying the economy of their small New England town.

The Big Dig gets flooded, causing a collapse of the tunnel's roof.  The last we see of downtown Boston is it falling into the resulting hole.  CGI explosions and building collapses abound, which will make for a good trailer to put on between episodes of "America's Funniest Concussions" and "Hog Swap".

Before that happens, our intrepid heroine breaks all the rules, sounds the alarm, and evacuates the multitude of people, saving innumerable lives, including a family of mixed-breed puppies and an entire Chevy Volt full of kittens. She leads the throng of refugees to the heights above Boston, where a train load of Pepsi, Papa John's Pizza, Miller Beer, and Jack Daniels awaits them. (Product placement is everything)

In the last scene, we see our young, brash President giving a speech about how we will rebuild from the disaster, and of course blaming Bush.

Cut to black.

This thing almost writes itself.  Ted Turner and James Cameron will jump on this in a New York minute.