I'm coming to the East coast and boy am I pizzed! :biggrin:
http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1025/Hurricane-Sandy-Frankenstorm-threatens-East-Coast
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on October 25, 2012, 01:17:23 PM
I'm coming to the East coast and boy am I pizzed! :biggrin:
http://m.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2012/1025/Hurricane-Sandy-Frankenstorm-threatens-East-Coast
I almost posted something similar! :biggrin:
Sandy looks like it's going to be a real bitch for the northeast. :yes:
Similar to Jeanne. :sneaky: <---- That's an inside joke that a few will get, if they remember. ;D
Speaking of Sandy, I'm getting ready to head out and about for a bit. Wish me luck. :biggrin:
Quote from: Locutus on October 25, 2012, 01:23:13 PM
Sandy looks like it's going to be a real bitch for the northeast. :yes:
Similar to Jeanne. :sneaky: <---- That's an inside joke that a few will get, if they remember. ;D
You read my mind. :yes: :biggrin: Jeanne doesn't have shite on Sandy. :biggrin:
On a somewhat different note, my class instructor is originally from Jamaica and still has family there. She hasn't heard from them in about 24 hours. The power went out a while ago and so did all telephone connections. :no:
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on October 25, 2012, 09:11:09 PM
You read my mind. :yes: :biggrin: Jeanne doesn't have shite on Sandy. :biggrin:
But Jeanne was a Florida Gal. :wink:
Nothing much going on here in South Florida except for a few rain bands here and there, and some gusty winds. Nothing that doesn't happen on a routine summer afternoon.
I'm just going to sit here an wait on the confluence of storms over the northeast and watch it on the news.
I always knew Sandy was a big blowhard! :razz:
:biggrin:
Quote from: Y on October 26, 2012, 01:04:42 AM
I always knew Sandy was a big blowhard! :razz:
:biggrin:
You shouldn't believe everything you read on the bathroom wall. :razz: :biggrin:
I am now hearing Sandy mentioned int he central Indiana forecast. . . :spooked:
I'm waiting to see if that super storm materializes. Should be interesting to watch from over 1,000 miles away. ;D
Quote from: Locutus on October 26, 2012, 01:35:00 PM
I'm waiting to see if that super storm materializes. Should be interesting to watch from over 1,000 miles away. ;D
What I am waiting for is the resulting requests for assistance that will materialize, and how the repugnican congress reacts to the forthcoming request for emergency funding from FEMA. . . :rant:
Quote from: Palehorse on October 26, 2012, 01:38:31 PM
What I am waiting for is the resulting requests for assistance that will materialize, and how the repugnican congress reacts to the forthcoming request for emergency funding from FEMA. . . :rant:
Yes, this may very well be an "October surprise" vis-a-vis the elections.
Quote from: Locutus on October 26, 2012, 01:35:00 PM
I'm waiting to see if that super storm materializes. Should be interesting to watch from over 1,000 miles away. ;D
:eek: Think of me while you're watching! If things go the way they are predicting, we are going to have one heck of a mess here. I live in Northern VA - the D.C.metro area.
I have spent most of the day so far getting stuff together in case the worst happens. All the D batteries (for my radio in case the power goes) were sold out at the usual places. I finally found some at, of all places, Toys R Us. In all the years I've lived here, I've never lost power long enough to need it. But this time -- what if? Worst case scenario -- something like what happened in Richmond about ?8 years ago. Can't remember which storm that was, but a relative who lived in the NW area was without power and water for at least two weeks. There was major damage in the area, with flooding and many large old trees down.
Good luck Libby. Let us know how it goes.
Good luck, Libby. My daughter lives near Bealton and works at Tyson's Corners so they are battening down the hatches, too.
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A hard left hook!
Quote from: Anne on October 27, 2012, 05:19:33 PM
Good luck, Libby. My daughter lives near Bealton and works at Tyson's Corners so they are battening down the hatches, too.
Thanks, Anne. My biggest fear is a tree falling on my house.
Quote from: Locutus on October 27, 2012, 05:03:55 PM
Good luck Libby. Let us know how it goes.
Thanks, Locutus. I will. :yes:
Unfortunately, Sandy is a lot like me. She doesn't know when to quit!
Hang on to something all my East Coast Friends! This is gonna be a doozy!
According to Accu-Weather:
6:00 a.m. EDT: Sandy is a truly massive storm on satellite. One of, if not the largest tropical cyclone to ever develop in the Atlantic basin.
Here's a weather map that should clear up everything for everyone:
(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1857/stormzm.jpg)
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on October 28, 2012, 11:14:19 AM
Here's a weather map that should clear up everything for everyone:
(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1857/stormzm.jpg)
That's really funny1
I live there and have already hit the liquor store. ;D
Quote from: Sandy Eggo on October 28, 2012, 11:14:19 AM
Here's a weather map that should clear up everything for everyone:
(http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/1857/stormzm.jpg)
The liquor stores are closed in Indiana. (Bible thumper legislation) :rolleyes:
Guess we're screwed too then! :icon_twisted:
Should have gone yesterday or have a friend that owns a store and you could get some today. :)
Quote from: Anne on October 28, 2012, 01:25:54 PM
Should have gone yesterday or have a friend that owns a store and you could get some today. :)
Having a friend who owns a store and using them to obtain liquor on a Sunday would be illegal; and the bible thumpers would want them both incarcerated for years over it.
[Update 5:15 p.m. ET] The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it will have on-site inspectors at all nuclear power stations that could be affected by Hurricane Sandy. The inspectors will be in place ahead of the storm and will stay at the power plants until the event is over.
No power station has been taken offline at this point, but each station has protocols and procedures for going offline, NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said.
[Update 5:07 p.m. ET] The National Hurricane Center's 5 p.m. update placed the center of Hurricane Sandy about 300 miles southeast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, moving northeast at about 15 mph. The storm is expected to turn first to the north and then to the northwest early Monday. Maximum sustained winds at 5 p.m. were 75 mph, with higher gusts.
[Update 4:50 p.m. ET] The New York Stock Exchange has revised it storm response plan and now says there will be no live trading Monday on the stock exchange's floor in Manhattan. Electronic trading by computer, which is how most trading takes place, will continue as usual, the exchange says. New York has declared a state of emergency and New York City has suspended subway service starting at 7 p.m. on Sunday.
[Update 4:47 p.m. ET] Updated figures indicate classes have been canceled Monday for at least 2.1 million public school K-12 students along the East Coast in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy.
[Update 3:30 p.m. ET] Stores along the Eastern Seaboard are running out of essential supplies such as batteries, water, generators and flashlights as people in Hurricane Sandy's path scramble to prepare for power outages and other effects of the storm.
Sounds like Sandy is going to be paying a visit to the east coast to start the week off right.
My wife and I are using this as a reminder to re-stock our emergency supply totes for the winter season. I believe next week we'll be visiting some local grocery and home repair stores to purchase the necessary items. (Then we'll be eating what is currently in our totes, because it isn't expired yet).
Batteries are tops on the list, and while we cannot eat them, the ones in our totes will be replacing batteries in our remotes, games, etc. throughout the house. My Boom box will get a fresh set too.
The pantry will see a good influx of canned goods as well. Especially canned meats and veggies. . .
I learned to stock up ahead of time from my parents. They canned everything from fresh fruit to sausage (from the two pigs daddy raised and killed every year). He built a smokehouse - a big room with a table where he salted down bacon. (I think the only thing he smoked in there was cigarettes.) There was a cellar beneath the smokehouse to store what they'd canned, along with apples and potatoes and other things from the garden. He also grew grapes, which he used to make what he called "homebrew."
Looks like the southern end of New Jersey and northern Delaware are in the line of fire. This is a big storm though so others farther away from landfall will most certainly be affected as well.
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