Bracing for the mother storm, all the hatches are battened down and the island of Wildwood is a ghost town. Early today I wasn’t all that concerned but by afternoon there was a voluntary evacuation of Cape May County and then a mandatory.  Governor Christie describes Hurricane Irene as a “serious, significant event.”  She’s pissed off and on a direct collision course with Cape May.  Nothing is more thrilling and terrifying than being in the middle of this story.  By evening everything was getting boarded up, bumper to bumper traffic trying to get off the island and maybe a few lone cars coming onto it.  Lines for gas at the…