Is Sandy going to kill us?

[esteban]

NORTHERN NJ CHECK-IN: It's a gorgeous, ominous overcast day so far. I still haven't cleaned up the leaves. The family's gonna go for a nice hike, instead. Gorgeous out here. Hopefully, my super-tall pine trees (over 100') will still be standing a few days from now... I lost one to lightning a few years ago. I was sad.

subways will close at 7pm tonite. if i can't go to work, it will be a marathon gaming session tomorrow (GBA is charged in case of power loss). 

Yup! I was so happy to hear Bloomberg announce everything this morning. With mass transit closed, I DON'T HAVE TO COMMUTE TO MANHATTAN TOMORROW!

Of course, if my basement floods, I'm f*cked. What a nasty mess to clean up. Not worth a week off from work, to be honest. So, NO FLOODING BASEMENT. Repeat: no flooding basement.

[turbokon]

Armageddon?  Get your batteries to keep your TE and gameboy powered. 
Seriously though, good luck to all if you are in the path. If I don't make it, Turbokon has my address, he can come over and raffle my TG (and other) collections. I keep it all very safe and it has a chance to survive even if I don't.

I'm not gonna raffle it off. I'll just keep them for myself, hehehe:)

I hope it misses you guys. I'll get to experience these thing soon enough, I might be moving to savannah, Georgia.

[bob]

NH/MA CHECK IN:  driving on 495 in NH now on my way back to RI.  Just some rain, but tons of emergency vehicles on the roads which is good to see (I guess).

[turboswimbz]

JERSEY SHORE CHECK IN:  windy.  driving rain, ocean high and churning.  nothing too bad, just waiting at this point to see how bad she'll get.  barrier islands evacuated about an hour ago.  


Futher update almost 8pm.  just went outside, Wind gusts now unbearable.  Rain less of an issue. water still rising . . . tomorrow's tides could be killer. looks like most of our beaches will have serious erosion. storm track now heading directly for the area.

[HercTNT]

NH check in: nothing so far, not expecting hell to break loose until tommorrow night. I have my Gt charged up thanks to Duo-r.

[Chuplayer]

Central NJ.

Some light spritzers of rain earlier, but nothing for a few hours. I'd only be in the outskirts area of the storm anyway, so maybe I'm located in an area where there's a break in activity.

I moved some things upstairs. Not a whole lot. After last year, I started keeping things a bit higher normally. My basement doesn't get a huge amount of water regardless.

[OldSchoolGamer]

North Shore MA check in:..light winds...light on and off showers...nothing really at all going on at this moment...The action will prob be best tomorrow im thinkin...

[Bernie]

f*ck this shit, Im heading to work!! 

[bob]

Just got home, pretty quiet in RI.

[tpivette]

I'll be heading into work in the next 8 hours. Not too worried about that, but the trip home 10 hours later I'm more concerned about. The storm should be kicking ass by then.

Alls pretty quiet right now in northern Delaware, just some light/steady rain.

[420GOAT]

you guys be cool.

[nodtveidt]

This storm is a wimp. We've had tropical storms down here with more bite than Sandy!

No seriously... y'all stay safe. I know that the area it's headed for isn't really designed for hurricanes, unlike here where cat 5s are a mere inconvenience.

[TR0N]

I'm pretty much inland,far as being in maryland go's and about the only thing i am worry about is a power outage.

Still hurricane sandy has shut down schools and the government down in washington dc.

[jperryss]

RI here, so far just some rain and modest winds.

[turboswimbz]

So far all good, looks to be nothing more than a big long rain storm, wind has become steady but managable.  flooding held off for the most part during this AM high tide.  just a few more cycles to make it through.  nothing to it but to wait till this one's through.  The evening will be the real test.