<p>I live in NYC. Here's some of the press release by the mayor. </p>
<p>The MTAs hurricane plan calls for the beginning of suspension of service before the arrival of sustained winds of 39 miles per hour or higher. The MTA is still reviewing whether to suspend some or all service in advance of the storm, but we are working closely with them and they have assured us ample notice will be provided of any suspension."</p>
<p>*Note, weather.com says winds will reach 44+mph on Tuesday, so. If buses stop running then I won't be able to go to school anyway.</p>
<p>New Yorkers also can prepare themselves by stocking up on basic supplies and making what we call a Go Bag, a bag that you could take with you if you had to leave home on a moments notice. Some of the things you should have in a Go Bag are drinking water, first-aid kit, flashlight, any important medications you take, essential documents such as passports or other forms of ID, and an extra set of car and house keys."</p>
<p>Finally, concerning schools: we havent yet made a decision about whether schools will be open Monday. We are likely to make an announcement about that on Sunday." </p>
<p>Where I’m at in Florida they called off school because of the winds coming off from this thing. It’s 200 miles from us and we’re getting 80mph winds. </p>
<p>I live like 2-3 hours away from NYC, so I guess we’ll see. I wouldn’t mind if school was cancelled, but I just don’t want it to knock the power out, damage homes, etc.</p>
<p>I heard some people died in some country by Florida…somewhere out there. Here in VA they said winds could top 44+, and that we`ll receive rain, and in some cases snow showers, but not low enough to hit us…mostly 30 minutes north of us and all the way up in D.C, not sure about all up in NY. But no school is a possibility here, I can only hope.</p>
<p>Yeah, 38 peope have died in Haiti, Cuba, and Puerto Rico because of Sandy.
I’m on Long Island, and we’re really bracing for impact.
They say if a Category 4 hurricane ever hits Long Island, it will be sunk. I wonder if this 'Frankenstorm" will be equivalent…</p>
<p>Update on VA, they now say that the storm will impact my area more than originally thought, so there a better chance of snow, and bigger gusts of wind now. I feel bad for the people on the coast; Virginia Beach is supposed to get hit pretty hard. They now say winds (not sure if our area, or the beach) are supposedly going to reach 60+.</p>
<p>I live in Delaware. More than one model predicts the storm to come basically directly over my house. I live about 30 minutes from the Atlantic Ocean/Delaware Bay and for those of you who don’t know, Delaware is a flat state. I guess I’m a bit concerned.</p>
<p>I got a new roof this week and they were supposed to take off all my siding and put in new windows before replacing the siding with new. Well guess what has been postponed. Hope the roof is sealed.</p>
<p>The power just went out here (FL). -___- And it’s barely raining out. Weird. It’s kind of nice out. We went to the beach earlier. I wish we could upload photos. The waves are huge. (We just watched from a distance.)</p>
<p>I live in Philadelphia, and many predictions of the storm have it hitting most heavily around here.</p>
<p>“The official track has Sandy making landfall near the Delmarva coast Tuesday morning, with the center passing just west of Philadelphia during the afternoon.
The worst effects are expected Monday night and Tuesday, with the National Weather Service calling for more than 20 hours of continuous 35 to 40 m.p.h. winds in the immediate Philadelphia area, with gusts of 55 m.p.h.-plus.
Meteorologists predict gales strong enough to uproot trees from saturated ground; 5 to 10 inches of rain; significant storm-surge and stream flooding; and extensive beach erosion by the time the storm pulls away later next week.
Utilities, stung by complaints about their responses to the outages caused by Irene last summer and the freak derecho wind storm in June, advised customers throughout the region to anticipate widespread power outages that could last beyond Election Day.
Cape May County said it would order evacuations of barrier islands and towns along Delaware Bay on Sunday unless the storm changed course. At the Shore, the boards went up on beachfront homes and boardwalk businesses. Boats were pulled from the water or secured at docks in marinas from Sea Bright to Cape May.
On the Pennsylvania mainland, Gov. Corbett declared a disaster emergency, as did Chester County, and emergency centers were activated in Harrisburg and Trenton.
What AccuWeather is labeling “the Storm of the Century” already has been blamed for killing 40 people in the Caribbean before heading north for an encounter with one of the nation’s densest population corridors.”</p>
<p>My school made a lot of announcements today about bringing home all of our needed books for next week, and all of my teachers have emailed us work to do just in case. If the storm is as bad as it is made out to be, I don’t think my number one priority on Monday will be emailing an essay to my English teacher, haha. I hope there isn’t any major damage, but I just hope we get one day off of school. And it looks like that will probably happen!</p>
<p>This is what the local meteorologist has said for us:</p>
<p>"But a lot of forecast guidance is showing a somewhat more northern track of the storm, into New Jersey, rather than the D.C.-area track that would be optimal for snow to spread into more of our area. And many models are both bringing less wraparound moisture and shallower cold air into Southwest Virginia. Snow appears likely to be elevation dependent and upslope-enhanced, which favors West Virginia’s mountains and the higher elevations (3,000-feet and higher) in Virginia near the West Virginia line and west of I-77. Winter storm watches are already out for a few counties in the high terrain of eastern West Virginia, near the red-circled “high risk” area at left. This is a situation that will continue to need monitoring, due to the potential high impact even a few inches of heavy, wet snow would have on still-leafy trees and a power grid already being shaken some by wind. At this time, a widespread paralyzing dump of wet snow appears unlikely in most of Southwest Virginia, but there could be pockets of it the farther west and higher up from the area you go, and still some chance of alterations in the track or development of the storm changing that. Just one heavy precipitation band moving through in colder air overnight Monday or early Tuesday could ratchet up the snow chances anywhere in our area.</p>
<p>So, Southwest Virginians: Brace for some pretty strong wind peaking on Tuesday, be prepared for power outages, expect some rain, and we’ll continue to keep an eye on the snow potential. Expect high waves, stronger wind and heavy rain near the coastlines to our east. Travel in any direction, by car and especially in air, will be challenging at some point Monday and/or Tuesday."</p>
<p>It`s changed a lot in the past 24 hours…went to 25% chance to 75% chance and now, no one really knows for sure. Northeast will be getting hit hard.</p>
<p>"Sandy will likely come ashore Monday evening, somewhere between Delaware and New York City, but the outer bands will move in early Monday morning. Expect heavy sheets of rain, with sustained winds between 30-40 mph, gusting over 50 mph at times into Monday night & Tuesday. It appears the worst of the weather will occur Monday night into Tuesday morning when the potential for isolated tornadoes will move through the Midstate.</p>
<p>Rain and high winds should begin to wind down late in the day on Tuesday, but some showers will last into Wednesday & Thursday. Early indications still point to a general 4-6" of rain, with isolated higher amounts pushing 10". Flooding of streams and creeks appear likely at this time."</p>
<p>I’m from central PA. This is pretty bad for my area. At least I’ll probably get Tuesday off.</p>
<p>The NWS is predicting strong to potentially damaging winds will move through the area Monday, with the highest guests occurring between 5 p.m. Monday and 11 a.m. Tuesday. Forecasters say the storm, associated with the storm moving up on the East Coast, could generate winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts in excess of 60 mph.</p>
<p>There is the potential for downed trees and powerlines and widespread, long-lasting power outages, according to the National Weather Service.</p>
<p>The storm will be accompanied by moderate to heavy rains, with up to three inches expected to fall in higher elevations and total rainfall expected to be in the quarter of an inch to inch range.</p>
<p>There are mandatory and optional evacuations for CT towns near the ocean.</p>
<p>“Connecticut Light & Power, which provides most of the state’s electricity, has projected that 300,000 to 600,000 households will lose electricity.”</p>
<p>Just like last year.
No Halloween again.</p>
<p>"‘The numbers we are staring at right now suggest that in a worst-case scenario we will see water surges unlike Connecticut has seen in more than 70 years. So that’s our first and potentially worst problem: flooding.’"</p>