Here is the latest on the storm — and it’s looking scary:
Hurricane Sandy will probably grow into a “Frankenstorm” that may become the worst to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years if current forecasts are correct.
Sandy may combine with a second storm coming out of the Midwest to create a system that would rival the New England hurricane of 1938 in intensity, said Paul Kocin, a National Weather Service meteorologist in College Park, Maryland. The hurricane currently passing the Bahamas has killed 21 people across the Caribbean, the Associated Press reported, citing local officials.
“What we’re seeing in some of our models is a storm at an intensity that we have not seen in this part of the country in the past century,” Kocin said in a telephone interview yesterday. “We’re not trying to hype it, this is what we’re seeing in some of our models. It may come in weaker.”
Are you prepared for the potential monster? Is it more media hype or is this the big one? I’m having to cancel some work-related travel plans. What are you doing to prepare?
It does not appear that we are going to get much of it; if we do, it will be the trailing edge and probably will simply mean heavy rain for a few days, which is actually pretty much status quo for this part of New York. I am more concerned about the Metro Area; I have friends in the City and in the surrounding New Jersey suburbs who could be severely impacted; some of them live close to the Jersey shore and they in particular could get hit.
I live in NJ (duh) and as of now we’re supposed to have 50-60 mph winds and lots-o-flooding. I was driving around yesterday and of course being gay, one of the things I thought of was ‘what a shame that all these nice elaborate Halloween displays that people have in their yards will be blown or washed away’. On a more serious note, folks who live in the storm area should take your political lawn signs in the house. This time of year they are everywhere you look and will become flying projectiles.
Well..well..weel. so is the world!
correction: i just read 70 mph winds at 2 AM on Tues.