<p>@ southjerseychessmom…our friends are staying in our garage apartment and I am hoping to keep the interaction between the dogs at a minimum since I know mine aren’t too happy to share their space with outsiders.
I sure hope those utility trucks coming from a distance will be heading our way. I feel very vulnerable being cut off from communications, which probably sounds trivial.</p>
<p>The size of this storm is like nothing I have ever seen so it makes me nervous to think about the potential impact. I feel like I am on the verge of becoming a Weather Channel storm story statistic</p>
<p>Consolation,
I think Boston should be ok Monday, but not so sure trains will be leaving from stormy areas, and could be delayed. I would send him up Sunday and stay at a hotel. It sounds like this appt is important enough to be extra cautious. </p>
<p>I’m in jersey, south of Philly, but not at the coast. Unsure what to stock up. I have 3 cases of water, but never in my life have we mot had water…though this might be the worst if they are correct.</p>
<p>Just got a generator but found out I need heavier duty cords than the ones we had…we have never used one so don’t know how it will go. Hubby is so unconcerned about stocking up or getting another tank of gas for generator. (have just the one can). We live on the south side of the street and for that reason our trees still have a lot of leaves. Hopefully they will blow off easily and not catch the wind and fall over.</p>
<p>We have lots of Halloween candy to eat! Rowan university cancelled classes for mon and tues and so has monmouth university. I imagine all the jersey schools are cancelled.</p>
<p>So glad I have a 4g iPad even though my service here might only be 3G. It will also be handy to read my kindle books by as it is lit (unlike kindle). </p>
<p>Brought in some firewood, it might get chilly at night and it will also provide light. My furnace doesn’t have a cord to use with the generator.</p>
<p>Njmom, how far from the bay? I think the storm surge will come from both sides and hopefully they won’t meet in the middle of the island. I didn’t notice which shore your house is at.</p>
<p>Have to go pick up more extension cords tomorrow and hubby will be all annoyed saying we don’t need them ( we have need spending a lot of $ lately) But if I don’t get them and we DO need them…</p>
<p>Local forecast was just on weather channel playing doom and gloom music…not their usual stuff. Is the music for Halloween or the storm?!</p>
<p>I am in northern nj and have been doing what I can, was so damn busy this week at work had to get things done today (my wife went to the store yesterday). I actually was able to order a generator, primarily to keep the sub pump on my basement french drain system going if the power goes out, hopefully they will have it monday afternoon before the worst is supposed to hit. We have water in bottles and I probably will also fill a bunch of water jugs we have, though we have never had trouble with the public water here, they seem to handle major storms well, but this one could be the one that says no).will fill my bathtubs for water in case we have problems and need to flush and such. We have stocked up on food and I have some block ice to try and keep food fresh, plus we have canned food and such, non perishable organic milk for coffee and i bought some of the artificial fire logs to use (mostly just to cheer things up), might also buy some temporary supplies of wood, too (I haven’t gotten my usual 1/2 chord yet). Supposedly won’t be too cold, which is one blessing (I am not sure the generator I bought would work with my heat and sub pump, though it is 2k, the heat can take a lot, would handle it alone, plus my heat is not set up for the generator…</p>
<p>I am seriously thinking of investing in a permanent back up generator to cover critical circuits like heat, the fridge and maybe some lighting circuits and such in the bedrooms. This is getting ridiculous, I have spent most of my life where I live and I have never seen what is happening routinely now, this is going to be the third “100 year storm” in the last 14 months (Irene, the Halloween snow storm that wreaked havoc, and now Sandy). We had tropical storms and such on occasion, bad winter storms, but this is bad news, we have lost power in the past couple of years more then the prior 45+ years…</p>
<p>From what I hear, the wind and rain is going to pick up Monday afternoon and monday evening is going to be the bear through roughly tuesday afternoon. By tomorrow I should have 20 gallons of gasoline ready to go, and if the generator shows up I should be set (if it doesn’t, I’ll do what I can to protect stuff in the basement). They are saying we potentially could be without power for a week or more if this one is really bad, here’s to praying it isn’t as bad as they think…I am glad they are taking this seriously, and if Sandy for some reason decides to say “hah hah” and blow out to sea, I’ll still be grateful that everyone took this seriously. I already told my people not to go to the office in the city on monday (we all live in the burbs, and commuting Monday sounds dicey).</p>
<p>I live in VT which had a lot of devastation last year with Irene, including in my town. I really hope we are not hit by it again. Today, in my village, they were sandbagging establishments by the river, that all have been rebuilt since Irene. </p>
<p>Best to everyone and let’s hope for it all being OK.</p>
<p>Holy Moly- watching the Weather Channel and just saw their graphic of the storm for Tuesday and the effects of Sandy stretch from Maine to Georgia- stunning - first time I saw this.
Off to target when it opens 8am- has anyone had experience with Dry hair shampoo called Klorane???</p>
<p>This storm is still 30+ hours away from landfall and winds are already noticeable at 15+ mph. I don’t anyone is taking this lightly. </p>
<p>Convinced H to head to shore today to board up the front of the house. At least it will be easier than Irene, since the boards are already cut w holes in place, so we just need to screw them on! I’ve heard our town (& others) is piling up sand as supplemental dunes.</p>
<p>We are in Alabama and saw many futility trucks headed North yesterday. Not sure where they are staging, but they are headed your way. Keeping fingers crossed that they won’t be needed</p>
<p>I just read our weather forecast (inland CT) and it doesn’t sound as bad as yesterday. Now they are saying winds up to 40 mph from Monday afternoon to just after midnight Monday…with windy/rainy conditions through Tuesday. </p>
<p>I’m still waiting to see if we have school tomorrow morning.</p>
<p>Yesterday our caretaker went into our shore house and emptied the ice drawer. And shut off the ice maker. I worried that when the power goes out the ice will melt and ruin our hardwood floors. Thank god we have tile floors on the ground level, which is built on pilings (poles). If the storm surge breaches the dune (13 feet at the lowest point) and the water floods the ground floor, we will have a lot of damage but not catastrophic (I hope). Our house is 3 stories of reverse living so the kitchen, living room and master bedroom are on the third level. We have Andersen storm watch windows, which are supposedly built to Floida hurricane code but this will be the final exam!!!</p>
<p>Our s#1 is in town for a conference. He got a call Fri night that one of the main speakers , who works for a power company up north, will not be able to make it due to the storm, and asked my s to give a presentation. Nothing like having to put that together in 2 days!</p>
<p>I just read that the impact of the storm will stretch for 800 miles-holy WOW!!! That is basically the distance from central Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico for us fly over country people, YIKES!!!</p>
<p>My son’s a college freshman in Boston and when I sent him hurricane info and pleaded with him to please prepare at least somewhat, he replied, "WE GOT POPTARTS AND WATER. I CAN SURVIVE NOW. ". :)</p>
<p>Darn! I guess I need to head out one more time to buy poptarts! Ok…maybe not. I just filled a bunch of vessels with water. Can’t do the bathtubs because of the new cat, who would drown. It is fine. We have a lot of filled containers, and two cases of drinking water.</p>
<p>Maybe the rest of you knew this already, but I just read in our morning paper that the reason Sandy is making a hard left inland instead of following a hurricane’s normal path north is that there is a giant ridge of air centered over Greenland blocking it.</p>
<p>Listening to the TWC, I feel like I’m LIVING a sci fi movie.</p>
<p>Today at 3PM the superintendents of all the school districts in the county will hold a conference call with the county emergency management agency to seek a unified way of dealing with the storm. In my 34 years of teaching in one of those districts, I’ve never heard of this happening before.</p>
<p>I’m still hoping it won’t be as bad as they predict, but…</p>
<p>^^ And that ridge of air over Greenland is thought to be related to the disappearance of Arctic ice.</p>
<p>Good luck, everyone. This is the best new tip I’ve come across (hope I didn’t read it in this thread!) Fill ziploc bags with drinking water. Put them in the freezer to fill empty spaces; if power is lost, the frozen bags of water will last longer than ice cubes and help keep your food cold. If you are without water for a long time, you can drink the water in the bags.</p>
<p>@NYMomof2–I did that yesterday! Saw it on the Weather Channel</p>
<p>Honestly, I’m just hoping that my federal agency (not on the usual fed schedule) closes proactively on Monday. I really don’t want to drive up I95 on Monday towards Baltimore and then get stuck on the way back when the worst of the storm rolls in in the evening. Of course, I’m a contractor, so retroactive A/L doesn’t apply to me :)</p>