Open Discussion:
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?
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… Read more »
Being from Boston and most snow storms are compared the Blizzard of 78. I was four but I survived the Blizzard of 1978.
This is a pretty funny storm twitter feed: https://twitter.com/AFrankenStorm
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….
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