Hurricane Sandy.

I'm pretty sure this one's Obama's fault, I'll bet he planned this one to cement votes right before an election somehow.
The mainstream media seems to be ignoring that possibility though.

At any rate, I don't know what you all are expected to get where you are, but the people in my town are FREAKING OUT.
They were bulls-eyed by Irene last year, and with the damages, loss of property and life, there's already not a case of water to be found in town.

If facebook is to be believed (is it ever?) we're supposed to get apocalyptic snow fall, more rain than Irene, and probably a rain of fire falling from the sky. Truth be told, I haven't seen any official projections for the storm yet since its early- but everyone's expecting the worst, which isn't bad because a bit of preparation never hurt anyone.

I've got a couple of concerns though- Where I live isn't in a danger zone, we're up a hill and didn't even see water in the Garage during Irene. I'm a bit worried about the infrastructure around town. After Irene, there was significant foot-dragging to replace bridges and washed out roads, and most of what was done has a slap-dash, temporary feel to it, to the point where if we do get any volume of water, even if its less than Irene's rainfall, the repairs will be gone in no time, trapping residents on some of our dead-end areas, and there's plenty of those.

The other thing is that the emergency services department of my county has been puckered up since Irene. A few weeks ago, we got a full day of rain, and they panicked, and scrambled every fire department in the county to stand by their stations in case there was any weather related emergencies. There were none, at all. We didn't even get called to pump out a basement. I'm going to be pissed if they do it again, since I'm between a rock and a hard place with the newborn. I don't want to leave the family if there's no emergency, but I also don't want to NOT go in case there's evacuations that need to be done like there were last time.

All in all, I'm hoping this stupid thing fizzles out, but I'll be spending the weekend putting in a stock of some non-perishables just in case. Like I said- being prepared never killed anyone right?

Are any of you on the East Coast expecting anything severe? Taking steps yet?


Edited by Reb Cpl - 26 October 2012 at 12:14pm

As I said on teh bookface: I have a chainsaw, gas, an artesian well, and a Subaru, I'm good.

Seriously though. Stocking up on non-perishable goods (soup, etc) firewood, and whatnot. I also had to explain to my wife that while she could still use the bathroom and take a shower if the power was out, she still needed to conserve water so we don't back up the septic system (effluent pump runs on electricity after all)

Seems a bit late to start preparing

Don't forget board games and books once the necessities are taken care of.

http://www.costco.com/Deluxe-Survivor-700-Total-Servings-Variety-Emergency-Food-Kit-By-Food-For-Health.product.100002694.html?catalogId=10701&keyword=survivor+food&langId=-1&storeId=10301

I am ready. My family and I are ready every year for hurricanes. Nothing new...

POOUUURRRRRR ME SOMETHIN TALL AND STRONG!

Schools in the area are pulling the plug early. Still no official estimate on the sort of weather we're supposed to be getting, aside from severe winds. Rain estimates have literally been everywhere between "6 inches in 3 days" and "As bad or worse than Irene." And Irene was 21" in less than a day.

My chief has us manning the firehouse 24/7 for the next few days, no particular shift schedule, but whenever we can get there for a few hours, we're going to make sure we're staffed.





Edited by Reb Cpl - 28 October 2012 at 6:55pm

We've put away enough fire wood for 3-4 days conservatively. Stocked up on soup, ramen, pb&j and mac & cheese. Chainsaw is gassed and oiled, cars are filled up, have extra cash in the safe and the shotgun and pistol are loaded in case we get an event on the scale of Evil Elvis' experience. Downstairs tub is already filled with H2O and will fill the upstairs one tomorrow after we take our showers. Our well feeds enough water artesianaly for us to get enough to drink and cook with, but not enough to keep flushing toilets and washing dishes with, so we're making sure we can take a dump without it turning into an outhouse situation.

Luckily the septic system is passive effluent discharge, so no pump to go offline there. I'll be breaking out the camp stove and dutch oven if we lose power. Good luck everyone. Hope you and your families make it through alright and with everything intact.

We don't have a generator- but the guy across the street (our only neighbor) is working on a local construction project (huge dam rebuild) and today he comes home towing one of those generator trailers with lights, like you see on highway road work projects. He offered us up usage of it if we need it, and it should be more than ample to do what we need to.