Hurricane Sandy
 

All you folks in the Northeast need to batten the hatches and start preparing for Hurricane Sandy.

"Government forecasters are warning that the US east coast is likely to be battered next week, not by a winter storm or a hurricane, but by an unusual combination of steady gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and possibly snow. It has already been dubbed the "snor'eastercane"."

Just read about this. Hope it doesn't get this far west, at least in terms of power outages ... but east of here, looks like everybody needs to hunker down.

This could be a sumbitch, but at least tw will be pleased. ;)

had no idea until my teacher mentioned it in class this afternoon. Vermont's pretty nervous about it - we're still recovering from the widespread damage caused by Irene a year ago.

We're going camping Saturday night and my daughter's in a parade Sunday afternoon. I hope the storm waits until Sunday evening to hit. :mad:

it's not supposed to start getting bad til sunday night - monday morning, is what i'm hearing.

I think we're about 6-10 hours ahead of you down here.

Oh aye, fair enough. I suppose it'll hit sooner down south than up here.

Here's today's update Emergency Management:

Hurricane Sandy will probably grow into a “Frankenstorm” that may become the worst to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years if current forecasts are correct. Sandy may combine with a second storm coming out of the Midwest to create a system that would rival the New England hurricane of 1938 in intensity, said Paul Kocin, a National Weather Service meteorologist in College Park, Maryland. The hurricane currently passing the Bahamas has killed 21 people across the Caribbean, the Associated Press reported, citing local officials.

Sandy Hurricane? Isn't that a Haboob?

And my daughter's band has already pulled out of the parade. :(

Some computer models have snow as far west as Ohio. Our EMS update said if conditions are right, up to 1,000,000 homes without power. They are urging citizens to have a 5 day emergency supply

I don't have my heat on, still.

:(

Virginia has declared a state of emergency

an emergency supply of power?