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As the East Coast prepares for “Frankenstorm 2012″ by shutting down the subway and stripping every local market bare of water and cell phone batteries, we’re all reminded of the worst storms we lived through.
What’s your craziest storm story? If you’re on the East Coast, how are you preparing for Hurricane Sandy?
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I live in Vermont right now, but I think I will get some extra water and a few food supplies I was going to eat for the week anyway. My school hasn’t shutdown yet, but we should be getting heavy rain on Monday-Thursday
In NYC, subways are closing at 7 PM this evening….an evacuation alert has been issued for areas below 15 feet above sea level….schools closed Monday….all elective surgeries and procedures cancelled….
This should be interesting….
This is a pretty funny storm twitter feed: https://twitter.com/AFrankenStorm
Being from Boston and most snow storms are compared the Blizzard of 78. I was four but I survived the Blizzard of 1978.
We’re not really doing much to prep for Sandy. We’re in North Carolina, and we’ve been getting gusty winds and rain in bands for the last day and a half, but I don’t think our family will see too much more than that from it. We didn’t get flooded by Dennis and Floyd, so I can’t imagine we will with this.
The worst storm we’ve been through? Hard to settle on one definitive worst-of-the-worst. Dennis and Floyd were pretty bad, though more for the flooding and damage all around us than for anything they did to us personally. Local TV stations were saturated with coverage of flooding and damage, and some highways were closed, which made it harder for food and supplies to be restocked in the stores, but that was just something to be coped with.
The nor’easter in 1993 was pretty rough. We were in a single-wide mobile home at the time, and with the heavy gusts you could feel the whole thing rock ever so slightly. Power was out for most of a day, and it was cold. My husband at the time went in to work, and I ended up sitting in our van in our driveway, taking advantage of the solar gain to stay warm. To this day, I can’t bring myself to fret much about hurricanes, but a nor’easter will make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
Can’t remember what year it was, but there was one year in the late 90s that we’d driven up north to visit my family. A couple of days before we were supposed to leave, a winter storm was predicted to hit the area. And it was going to be bad, the forecast insisted. People might be snowed in for days. So, at my mom’s urging, we packed our stuff and left that evening. We made it well down into Ohio before we had to stop for the night. The next morning was a nightmare. Snow blowing and trying to build into drifts on glassy, icy highways. Wind howling and trying to push the car around. Visibility was sometimes next to nothing. The biggest thing that kept us going was knowing that if we stopped, we might not get started again. I’m still not sure how we made it, but the further south we drove, the less snow there was and the better conditions got, and then we got over the Appalachians and were out of the worst of it.
As I say, I don’t know which of those was THE worst, and maybe there’s another I’m forgetting, but I wouldn’t wish any of them on anyone!