Praying for you East Coasters!! Please keep us in the loop when you can!!
Just lots of rain here (west of D.C.) this morning; the wind is supposed to hit later this afternoon. Folks along the coast are getting pummeled.
Regards,
Scott
The eye is forecast to roll right over us (45 minutes due West of Atlantic City)…life will get real interesting over the next 24 hours.
My Best,
Ralph
Ralph -
You might want to edit your signature for the next couple days ??
Seriously, all the best to you guys and the millions that will be effected by another “perfect storm.”
John
LMAO!!! Well, hey…I’ll consider it scouting for good holes. 
I got an email this morning from my wife’s best friend who lives at Southern Shores, NC (outer banks area). It was still raining hard but she had not lost utilities, did not a tree down in her front yard and indicated there was a concern about flooding at high tide in the area.
Jesse,
Been reading a couple of message boards down that way and below Southern Shores it is bad, to say the least. Fishing pier at Kill Devil Hills has received quite a bit of damage. Lot of flooding in that area. Hatteras area is under water. Road (pavement) gone in a couple of spots, A lot of dunes have been washed out. Couple of houses are gone. Reports don’t sound good for the areas that son and I fish on a regular basis. So far in my area, central Va, just a little rain and light wind. But then it hasn’t gotten to us quite yet.
George
I looked at our friends address on Google Earth overhead and street view. She live on the backside of the penisula and her house sits on a rise, well above street level. She is pretty independent and resourceful, she logged about 25 years as the wife of a SF soldier, unfortunately she is now a widow but a strong willed Mississippi Delta gal.
Just cold and rainy here in Central VA. But as stated we are in the Lose power area according to the news. Winds will pick up throughout the day and because we are so low, there will be plenty of flooding. I’m glad we live on a hill.
Some pretty serious winds hitting us now, and it’s the first bands. Eye to roll over us around midnight. Barrier islands are mostly under water now…from LBI to Cape May is getting hammered…and it’s not even hit land yet.
It’s 2:15 pm EST here in SE PA 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia, raining steadily and stronger as the afternoon goes on. The winds have picked up at bit this afternoon, but the gusts are still pretty tame, I’d guess at 15-25 mph max.
From the looks of the weather map, the worst won’t get here until later this afternoon and throughout the evening.
We’re about as ready as we can get - plenty of food, water, a generator for back-up, etc. And, a big roll of duct (or is it duck?) tape.:rolleyes:
John
Jesse,
Here is a site that is showing some of the “happenings” in Duck–north of your friend. And the farther south you go, the damage increases. Being from the Miss delta region, she should be accustomed to this sort of thing.
http://pinterest.com/townofduck/october-2012-hurricane-sandy/
George
12:53 AM Tuesday October 29th, 2012
Watching MSNBC coverage of Hurricane Sandy (category 1) as it came on shore, at “high tide”! The combination of Hurricane Sandy, with the Cold Weather coming down from Greenland, with a Winter Storm that is coming in from the Central USA is creating a Storm that will combine and become a monster that has more energy then Hurricane Katrina (in the Mississippi Delta.
FEMA is in place to come in to the damaged areas, as soon as the sun rises this morning, National Guard is already on the ground in many of the most damage areas on the coastline.
At latest numbers on MSNBC, over 7.1 million people are without electricity.
This storm will continue over the rest of this week going to the northeast going back offshore after leaving Maine. This storm is covering an area as far west as Michigan, and it also is having effect with our neighbors to in Canada!
Luckily this time there is not as many dying from this storm… this time we had people in government at all levels; cities, counties, states, and federal government, including President Obama who knew what his priorities were by ending his campaign for reelection and returned to the White House to deal with this storm was coming, and got the people and supplies in place to have feet on the ground when the sunrises today!
My prayers are with all those who have been force to hunker down, or leave the low lying areas. My prayers are also with those at all level of government who will be going in harms way!
checking in from a close-in suburb of Washington, D.C.–7 inches of rain in 36 hours, biggest gust over the back porch measured 64 mph, but this time we kept our power. got the freezer all cleaned out and made big pot of chili to live on just in case. now we don’t have to cook for a bit.
but gee, has it turned cold and raw! 38 F this AM.
if you need your Federal Government for anything, they’ll be back in the office tomorrow. it’s been really nice and quiet with the Metro shut down!