Frankenstorm for Halloween??!!

[Gusington]

I'm done with interesting.

[Staggerwing]

Damn, Tent.I didn't know you were in Springsteenville. Keep safe! Anyone else located right in the 'fun zone'? I know we have some 'Virgins' here. Any Districters or Marybaltimorelanders? PA?

[besilarius]

Yeah, just over the border from DC in Hyattsville, Md.
Normally most weather comes from the west, so we bought a house on the eastern side of a hill.
This will be interesting.

[LongBlade]

You guys hang in there and be safe. Look at the bright side, as long as the power stays on, even if you are snowed in you can watch non-stop campaign commercials.

I'm getting about two calls a day now.

Stopped by Romney local HQ to say hello and pick up a yard sign (we live in a cul-de-sac - about six people will see it, but the fam wanted it).

Sitting around a bunch of tables scrunched together were about ten folks and their phones. I laughed and asked them (only half in jest) if they would take me off their call list if I promised to vote for Romney. I got some seriously blank looks.

Good stuff. Hopefully if the power goes out y'all can think about this story and laugh, because apparently the phone call barrage will continue for another ten days.

[GDS_Starfury]

Star - even a weaker hurricane like Irene or an early season snowstorm around here wreaks havoc. I wasn't kidding when I said that my property looked like Verdun 1916 last Halloween. It was seriously f'd up.

I gotta be honest.  growing up with hurricanes and having housing and building codes for hurricanes all my life tends to skew my view of it.

[Gusington]

You're a native Floridian? To the Miami area?

[Arctic Blast]

Hopefully it doesn't hit anyone too hard.

And hopefully it doesn't interrupt anyone's power for too long, otherwise the murder rate might skyrocket.

No GAMING?! Urge to kill...RISING!

:D

[GDS_Starfury]

You're a native Floridian? To the Miami area?

watchu' sayin cuz?

[besilarius]

My weather stations are all predicting landfall at, or near, Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The Northeast Quadrant of the storm spin will be the strongest, which means norther New Jersey, New York City, Long Island and points north.

[MetalDog]

Not a native Floridian,  but spent fifteen years in SW FLA.  Originally from the NE.  Not sure it's the hurricane that will be the worst, but the consequences for the tens of millions and the interruption of services of all kinds that will be the worst.

[Jarhead0331]

Not a native Floridian,  but spent fifteen years in SW FLA.  Originally from the NE.  Not sure it's the hurricane that will be the worst, but the consequences for the tens of millions and the interruption of services of all kinds that will be the worst.

People need to keep their $hit together.  They go mad around here when a big storm comes.  They rush to the gas tanks, they rush to the super markets. They buy ALL the batteries and ALL the bread and canned goods. You see jacka$$es with carts full of the stuff.  Image what it would be like in a REAL emergency, where there is a question about whether the power ever really will come back on.  I'd have to shoot so many raving lunatics.

[Gusington]

^Too late. I had to get gas yesterday and even that was bedlam. I blame the media and Wolf Blitzer.

[MetalDog]

JH, it's the same in FLA for a hurricane.  At any one point, there are tourists and part timers who have never experienced a hurricane.  I'm not suggesting it's an easy thing to ride out, but a Cat 1 like Sandy is pretty low grade.  The worst of it will be the byproducts.  So, everyone keep calm, use your head and stay cool.  You'll ride this bad boy out and make it out the other side.

[LongBlade]

^Too late. I had to get gas yesterday and even that was bedlam. I blame the media and Wolf Blitzer.

I've got a bunch of five gallon tanks in my garage ready to go. Got about 20 gallons in fuel as a stand-by for the generator or to bug out were it ever needed. Can store up to 40 gallons. Preparation needs to take place more than 24 hours out. Also got about 12 gallons of water sitting around just in case. Batteries I buy at Sam's in big packs. Got fire wood for heat. I'm sure there are some things I could do to top off if needed, but we're always prepared. Biggest issue is remembering to rotate out the old stock periodically and replace it with fresh stuffz.

[LongBlade]

Not a native Floridian,  but spent fifteen years in SW FLA.  Originally from the NE.  Not sure it's the hurricane that will be the worst, but the consequences for the tens of millions and the interruption of services of all kinds that will be the worst.

People need to keep their $hit together.  They go mad around here when a big storm comes.  They rush to the gas tanks, they rush to the super markets. They buy ALL the batteries and ALL the bread and canned goods. You see jacka$$es with carts full of the stuff.  Image what it would be like in a REAL emergency, where there is a question about whether the power ever really will come back on.  I'd have to shoot so many raving lunatics.

Without putting too fine a point on it, most of those folks are city slickers whose idea of a natural disaster is Whole Foods running out of organic kashi.