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Irresistible a lesson from a March nor'easter that took the life of a town woman, crippled road and power networks and caused millions in holdings damage, Greenwich's emergency management director says it could happen again -- and sooner than you dream up.

"This has been a dress rehearsal for a much more significant event," Daniel Warzoha told members of the Round Hill Relationship Tuesday night.

Warzoha, who was invited to the neighborhood association's annual meeting to discuss the borough's storm response, issued a grim warning about the upcoming hurricane season to the group.

Citing a new announce by the chief forecaster for AccuWeather.com, the private service the town relies heavily upon for emergency planning, Warzoha said this could be in the top-10 most potent hurricane seasons since records started being kept 160 years ago.

A total of 16 to 18 storms have been predicted for the mature, which runs from June to November, by Joe Bastardi of AccuWeather.com, who said on the Web site that 2010 could rival 2005, the year of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

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Auditions for Norma Russell’s newest dulcet comedy, “Circus Shambles,” will be at 2 p.m. at the Warehouse Living Arts Center, 119 W. Sixth Ave., with 12 featured roles ready for six men and six women (late teens and adults), and numerous chorus members (any age over 12 years old as extensive as you can sing). Those auditioning should be prepared to sing 16 bars of an upbeat song and dress to move. There will also be standoffish readings from the script. Rehearsals will begin on June 1. Performance dates will be July 22-25, 27, 29-31. “Circus Mess” tells the story of a small struggling circus that is in danger of having to “go under its tent.” The bearded lady’s hair is falling out, the fat lady is losing cross, the lion tamer’s lion is in hock for an unpaid feed bill, and the circus ringmaster/possessor is resistant to change that could possibly be their salvation. At that point a Texas lady with a psychic toe shows up and the challenge’s afoot.

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NEW YORK, NY May 04, 2010 —U.S. Customs and Bed Protection officials have arrested a suspect in this weekend's failed car bombing in Times Square. Faisal Shahzad, a 30-year-old naturalized U.S. townswoman from Pakistan, was taken into custody at JFK International Airport around midnight as he was preparing to fly out of the U.S., bound for Dubai, according to Attorney Non-specific Eric Holder.

Shahzad is a resident of Connecticut and will have his initial federal court appearance tomorrow. He is suspected to have bought the Nissan Pathfinder used in the Times Square bombing attempt for $1,800 in notes last month.

Law enforcement sources says Shazad had visited Pakistan in June of 2009.

The key break in the receptacle came when the NYPD was able to retrieve the vehicile identification number for the Pathfinder and locate the last P of record, which in turn helped them find Shahzad.

Holder said the investigation was ongoing and multi-faceted.

In combining to searching for the buyer, police have zeroed in on video from 12 security cameras out of the hundreds in correct position in Times Square. So far, police say they've gotten 120 calls from citizens offering tips about Saturday continually. Three of them merited follow-up. New York police and federal officials are working on the case collaboratively through the Federal Honky-tonk Terrorism Task Force. Federal officials would handle any prosecution in the case.

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