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<p>Nah, we’ll have to pay a late registration fee for not arriving on time :(. It’s okay, there’s no way the school will force anyone to go home because for the vast majority of the students, home is pretty far away. </p>
<p>Flying into Boston on Monday, hopefully the worst of the storm will be over by then. Stay safe everyone!</p>
<p>jrpar, they will close the roads EASTBOUND TOWARDS the storm/city/coast first and leave the roads Westbound/OUT OF the city open as long as they can. As the exodus moves out, they slowly close entrance ramps, etc.</p>
<p>This is S.O.P. in Florida when we have storms. They often close the roads INTO the the storm, and USE ALL LANES to direct traffic OUT. Yep, all traffic in all lanes on all sides of the highway will be headed out of harms way. They can move quite a bit of traffic that way.</p>
<p>sunnyflorida, that makes sense. I thought emilybee was saying that the bridges would be entirely shut down starting at 9 am tomorrow, which is well in advance of the arrival of this storm.</p>
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Trust me. IF the hurricane delays you, they will NOT charge you extra if you had to stay out of harms way. And yes, if the school ends up looking anything like Tulane did after Katrina, they will certainly close up and send everyone home. Perhaps you did not read the threads here about Katrina. Not only did they send kids home, they eliminated entire majors and departments and some students were never able to go back. I am hoping your student is far away from the path of the storm. Because, you don’t seem to understand the potential for problems.</p>
<p>jrpar, once the winds kick up, they WILL close bridges in both directions. Once the winds reach a certain MPH, cars can literally be swept off the bridge. And bridges are often only rated for up to a certain wind speed for other safety reason. So folks who are leaving need to get out of the area before they risk not being able to.</p>
<p>well if i was going to amherst this weekend and i knew a hurricane was going to kill everyone there i sure as hell wouldnt be going up there. I doubt they would hold it against you and if they did then i would rather pay X amount of money then drive into a massive hurricane and kill myself because someone told me to.</p>
<p>For us, we were originally planning to fly into JFK late on Sunday night, visit with my parents in NY Monday, and get to Wesleyan late Monday (we are coming from the West Coast. We knew the Sunday night flight was going to be a no-go…so we also scheduled a refundable back-up flight on Saturday early. Ha. BOTH flights were canceled this afternoon. SO…we tried to book a back up combo of flights to get us anywhere CLOSE on Monday…(we really need Tuesday to get all the dorm stuff!). The BEST United could do for us was a combo of flights on two airlines…first to Denver, then to Pittsburgh, then finally to Hartford. And we are “elite” fliers, so they were REALLY trying hard to accomodate us! We did look at Tuesday but it was no better and we were worried we wouldn’t have 1 day in case of missing a flight connection (move in is on Wednesday and orientation starts then too).</p>
<p>This is going to be a difficult week for so many of us…goodness, my son and my family has been looking forward to this for so long! In a million years I would have never thought of a Hurricane causing all this havoc this week!</p>
<p>^That’s so frustrating! Hope things will work out, GreatKidsMom.</p>
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<p>Goodness! Hopefully we won’t come to that in Boston. I was only expecting a tropical storm with a little bit of wind over the weekend, based on the storm tracker here:
[Hurricane</a> Irene Tracking Map - NYTimes.com](<a href=“Hurricanes and Tropical Storms - The New York Times”>http://www.nytimes.com/projects/hurricanes/#!/2011/Irene?hp)</p>
<p>And weather.com says it’s going to be a nice, sunny day on Monday? I’m actually the student heading back to school on my own. More worried here about the city losing power and the public transportation not running properly, because I have to get from the airport to campus by subway.</p>
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<p>Wow, I’m not happy to hear that! DH and S1 left NYC about 2 1/2 hours ago to drive S1 down to Baltimore. (S1 is a rising junior in a college there; classes start Monday.) DH is planning to stay overnight in S1’s apartment, and drive back to NYC tomorrow morning. I think if he leaves around 8 AM, he should get here around noon. I thought that would be okay.</p>
<p>Can you clarify what exactly will be closed down? DH would be taking the NJ Turnpike probably to the Holland Tunnel (he could also take the Lincoln Tunnel). Would that way be open for him to get back into Manhattan?</p>
<p>Sodium…it sounds like your husband is planning to drive the whole way WITH this storm…if he’s leaving the Baltimore area on Saturday morning. He may want to rethink those plans.</p>
<p>"DH would be taking the NJ Turnpike probably to the Holland Tunnel (he could also take the Lincoln Tunnel). Would that way be open for him to get back into Manhattan? "</p>
<p>Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey said that all lanes of a 28-mile stretch of a major highway in Ocean County would go in only one direction — westward — beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday to help speed the trip away from Long Beach Island, which is connected to the mainland by only a single bridge. He said he was also considering reversing traffic on a section of the Garden State Parkway to get drivers away from the shore faster. </p>
<p><a href=“Evacuations Ordered in New York as Hurricane Irene Nears - The New York Times”>Evacuations Ordered in New York as Hurricane Irene Nears - The New York Times;
<p>Just got a text from S1, and they are a half hour away from Baltimore, and had no problems getting down there.</p>
<p>I suppose if it’s bad tomorrow morning, DH could just stay there until Monday. According to what I see on the NWS website, though, it looks as if the storm won’t hit North Carolina until 2 PM. If DH leaves Baltimore around 8 AM, he should be back in NYC before noon, which seems to keep him enough ahead of the storm. (As long as the roads into the city aren’t closed in the morning. That could be an insurmoutable problem!)</p>
<p>I guess I will urge him to carefully assess whether it’s safe to travel tomorrow morning.</p>
<p>Sodium, I really don’t know if he knows anything about NJ highways. DH is with NYS not NJ. According to my DH they are going to close the highways, bridges (he didn’t say anything about tunnels) starting at 9am tomorrow morning and doing it in stages so by early afternoon on Saturday there will be no one of the roads. By highways I would assume the Deegan, LIE, 95 into CT, etc. I don’t think he meant West Side Dr, FDR, etc. He doesn’t know the order either only that northbound NYS thruway will be kept open later in the day but only northbound. </p>
<p>The only think I can suggest is that you monitor the news. Things can change depending on the storm track and intensity but I think they want to err on the side of caution and make sure the roads are clear for the emergency vehicals that are being pre-staged out NYC. </p>
<p>I will ask him when he gets home tonight if the tunnels will be closing.</p>
<p>Excuse all the typos, I’m just tired and cranky.</p>
<p>menloparkmom, thanks for that information. I think that won’t be a problem for DH. The Garden State Parkway is closer to the shore than is the NJ Turnpike; DH will be on the Turnpike. I’m not sure what Ocean County highway that is, but I don’t think DH will be near Ocean County. (But I will check that out!)</p>
<p>This is all nerve-racking!</p>
<p>emilybee, thank you!</p>
<p>Would it be safe to fly into Philadelphia International on Monday, 29th at 10:30pm? The storm will have passed by then, right?</p>
<p>Rt. 72 is the highway that starts as you come off LBI. </p>
<p>Was talking to a friend in NYC a few minutes ago and she’d heard that the five NYC area airports will be closed to incoming flights as of noon tomorrow.</p>
<p>DH just came home. I asked about the tunnels and he said, “it depends.”</p>
<p>Okay, thanks, emilybee. I will let DH know he should pay attention to all this.</p>
<p>At least if he has to stay in Baltimore for the weekend, he has a comfortable place to stay. (S1 has said he would sleep on the couch, so DH can have a real bed!)</p>
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<p>According to the [NWS</a> map](<a href=“POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE SEAN”>POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE SEAN), the storm should be very far north by Monday afternoon.</p>