East Coast Members Stay Safe

[snakehill]

Going out tomorrow to stock up on supplies that don't need to be heated, etc. I expect that we will lose cable, electric and phone services but our cables are all underground. School starts for one of my kids on Monday. They may have their first "snow day" on Monday

Damn Le Ann! It's headed straight for us !!!!

[RedSidedSPR]

And yay me, I'm supposed to be at work all day Sunday. How many people are actually going to come to the pet store to buy dog food in a hurricane!?! Then again they may declare state of emergency. And then there's always the chance we lose power and i have to close the store and shoo out any customers.

That's just not right.

[brain]

Yea it looks like a wet and wounderful times ahead.

My wife wants to move to RI

I'll stick to my earthequakes thank you very much.

A whole lot dryer

[Mommy2many]

Damn Le Ann! It's headed straight for us !!!!

I know! We are in for a direct hit with Category 1 winds, to quickly change over to tropical storm as it moves across Connecticut. All in all, a very powerful storm. I expected it to be similar to Gloria in 1985 but they are comparing it to storms from 1950's and the "Great New England Hurricane" of 1938.

I went to the store today to get school clothes and storm supplies. The grocery store had no bottled water and hardley any bread. I was lucky enough to find bread at the deli counter and a loaf of rye at the bakery. I decided to "bottle" my own water at home. I am saving the milk jugs and have filled all empty ones with water and also filled any pitchers I may have. This is for drinking and for animals. I intend to fill a plastic garbage can with water from the hose for toilets (cause it doesn't have to be potable) and maybe even some very large pasta pots.

I think we'll be OK. I ordered lunch meat at the deli today and completely forgot to pick it up, so now I need to go back tomorrow for it. That is what the bread was for, so we don't need to heat it. I will cook a 7 lb turkey breast tomorrow and a couple turkey legs, so we'll have that to nibble on as one.

I went to the Christmas Tree shop and bought cheap pillar candles. I have about a dozen now, so that should work if power goes out. We laso have some Yankee Candle Jars, which will also help.

Fed the snakies tonight and will try again tomorrow, just to make sure we don't need to go into the freezer unnecessarily. May need to get more crickets for foggies, I'll have to see tomorrow.

They already cancelled my daughter's first day of school on Monday.

I'll try & get pics as the weekend progresses. Thanks for the concern!

[RedSidedSPR]

Yeah... probably get nailed with a cat.1... Your in a worse spot now though.

Seriously hard rain, on and off all evening. Like, NAILED by HARD rain, for 10 seconds, than off... And on... And off.

[Mommy2many]

Jesse, you must still have power. Is it moving over/thru your area right now?

[RedSidedSPR]

Well.. not quite yet... like I said rain on and off... Pretty hard rain.

But it hasn't really hit yet..

[Mommy2many]

Keep safe.

[count dewclaw]

For those of you "in the line of fire", keep safe. Looks like we will be on the edge of the storm here in central NY.

[guidofatherof5]

Sounds like a lot of rain coming from this storm.
Seems like the rain causes most of the problems in these storms.
Everyone please stay safe.