An excerpt from the life of Kairan:   My mom and I are watching The Weather Channel in our condo on the east cost of Florida.  We want to see how nasty things will get for us with Hurricane Irene.  It turns out she's forecast to pass by us two-hundred miles out to sea, throwing 50 to 70 mph winds our way.    People up in the Outer Banks are under a mandatory evacuation because they will bear the…