Hurricane Central

[Karen]

Alyssa - if the governor declares a State of Emergency, you may call in to say they should stay off the roads.

[Freedom]

The "worst" for us is predicted to be Monday, noon to 8PM. Steady winds of 35 to 50 MPH, with gusts to 75 MPH. That brings a high potential of power outages.

I haven't seen a recent report on rainfall amounts for us here. I will be interesting being here with the pets, I hate being THE one in charge, ha haaa. Maybe I can convince Willy?

Dad has been in hospital since Tuesday. Since Friday afternoon, they have been trying to find a rehab facility to transfer him; but as he had C-diff now, he will need a private room, and none of the places local to us has any open. ( I suspect they just don't want the highly contagious C-diff in their facility.)

[momcat]

The most recent reports I've seen show that Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey are going to get a direct hit when the storm makes landfall. There is flooding already in Cape May County and all casinos in Atlantic City are closed by order of the governor. Several coastal areas in New Jersey were ordered to evacuate by 4:00p.m. today. Schools in the Trenton area have been closed along with other districts in the state. For the past few days the power companies have cancelled all vacations & time off and all workers have been called in to prep for the power outages that are expected to last for 7-10 days. Our governor declared a state of emergency yesterday and I received a notice this morning that all state offices are closed tomorrow. Here in Trenton we can expect the winds to start off at 40 mph and increase from there. We're not in a flood zone but sections of Trenton along the Delaware River could be in for a lot of trouble. Unless it has been updated, we're being told to expect 7" to 12" of rain, the worst of the storm will be tomorrow. Our temperatures have dropped considerably. Rain in our area is expected to last until Wednesday. The full moon is not going to help the storm surges. This looks like a bad one.

[phesina]

Sending along all my hopes and prayers and good wishes that you folks in the path of this storm will make it through this all right .. (you and everyone facing it, for that matter).

Love from Pat and cats

[Freedom]

State of Emergency here in RI, many coastal areas have evacuation orders in place. Mass. has declared same and closed all schools. RI, each community handles its own school cancellations apparently as some are closed others are not.

Trash pick up is another biggie, some places have postponed one day, most have not said a word as yet.

[kaycountrygal]

Sun, Oct 28 2012, 645pm
To those in the path of Sandy, I sure hope you, your family, and your pets will be alright. Where I live in central NC the wind is higher than usual and to be moreso tomorrow (Mon) but I dont think we will have big trouble where I am. Currently at NC coast the wind is having a fit with the waves, rain, and sand and it looks as if foam is blowing everywhere (saw that on tv news report) and of course the tv reporter could hardly stand up.

If the power goes off here, I have a generator that I got years ago after Hurricane Fran knocked out power for 5 days--terrible. At the time I said I will not go through this again and I got a generator and I've used it several times during ice storms and bad storms.

I'll be thinking about you all and checking back from time to time. Hang in there! I'm sending up prayers for you.

[pomtzu]

Every update I hear sounds worse and more ominous than the last - it's making me jittery already. Pretty much what Eileen (momcat) said applies here - she's just a stone's throw away. Rain could be up to 12", sustained winds up to 60 mph for about 18 hours straight - gusts from 60 - 80 mph. And the worst part for me, is that the worst is expected from late tomorrow afternoon and into Tuesday morning - at night when you can't see anything that's happening, and you have to wonder what that crash was, etc, etc, etc........ At least when storms like this hit in daylight hours, you might be able to duck out of the way in time. Just heard that they are reporting 16' waves off Rehoboth Beach, and the t.v. showed surfers out in it. CRAZY!!!!

[momcat]

Every update I hear sounds worse and more ominous than the last - it's making me jittery already.

I couldn't agree with you more, Ellie. It started raining lightly here about an hour ago. Toll booths heading north on the Garden State Parkway and Atlantic City Expressway have been closed to speed up evacuations. Both roadways heading south are completely shut down. Waves are picking up from Asbury Park down past Wildwood, folks who have been living in the shore area for years say they've never seen anything like this. And to think this is only the beginning! New Jersey is in virtual shut down and the governor has ordered everyone to stay inside and do not go out so roads are clear for emergency vehicles only. Like the surfers, I cannot understand the people who are refusing to evacuate. I did hear on the news that this storm is expected to collide with another storm. There's a whole lot of praying going on here - Ellie, you, Maggie & Coop, and all of our PT friends in the line of fire are very much included.

To all of our PT friends, thank you very much for your concern and your prayers. It means much more than words can say. We'll update you as we can. This storm is most definitely FOR REAL!!!