If you live in THE NORTHEAST please pay attention to the weather! (any confusion now?)

[Are_grits_groceries]

I realize that some people will discount the warnings because they don't believe the last storm lived up to predictions.
With the possible conditions, you MIGHT get the perfect storm. If they all come together, it will be bad. Even some combination could make it worse. Think nor'easter on steroids.
Will this happen? Wish I knew with certainty.

I have gone through this every summer during hurricane season. There is always speculation about the path, the size, the damage, etc. People who have lived in the region are either blasé or they take them seriously. Every storm is unique and unpredictable.
I prepare as best I can. After that, I don't worry much. Wasted energy. I watch and take other precautions if necessary.

I still have an eye peeled on this one. Don't trust them worth a damn.

PAY ATTENTION to possible flooding! Even if you don't live in an area that doesn't normally flood, you might be in the path of something this time.

This has been a probably unneeded PSA from AGG who is a professional noodge.

BTW one of the best times to look for interesting items on the beach is after a storm. They stir up a lot of stuff and deposit it on shore.

Edit: Apparently, I am not up on the geographical abbreviation. However, since there was only one huge weather event in the news, I thought NE would do. Judging from the 1st post, i now have everybody in Nebraska scrambling. I believe people are smarter than that. If not, scramble away.

[ToxMarz]

1. You know "in NE' is Nebraska.

In "the NE" means the northeast. Wondered what you were talking about. The people in the other NE are probably already watching this themselves.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. how about new england

[Art_from_Ark]

3. "In NE" can also mean "in New England"

[ToxMarz]

4. Ok

Put New England everywhere I said Northeast and it is the same post. New England is in and pretty much comprises the Northeast.

[ToxMarz]

5. And all the weather alerts

Refer to the Northeast and not New England.

[eShirl]

6. appreciations from the NNE

North-Northeast

[NutmegYankee]

7. Oh, we pay attention to the weather.

I got to sit in the dark quite a lot last year back in Aug/Sep and October.

[sarge43]

8. Ayeup.

Two generators, water pump, sump pump, gas stove, extra water, gasoline and food stocks. Weather is ever gentle on our minds.

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. You know.... If you read that first sentence....

of your post in the cadence of the opening scene to "The Music Man" ( The Rock Island Railroad) it fits right in! Whether or not it was intentional, it is a very musical sentence!



I'm posting this from my phone and can't link the video, but go to YouTube and search "The music man" and look for the opening scene.

[sarge43]

14. I know the scene

Thank you

It wasn't intentional; probably a subconscious dig thru the big ole duffel bag of trivia.

Another New England music boost: The woods are alive with the sound of chain saws

With screams that are heard way over to Squam

The ERs fill up with results of chain saws

If Sandy rips thru here, chain saws will have one more work out before wintah.

[kentauros]

9. You can never be too cautious when it comes to hurricanes

or "just" tropical depressions (some of the worst flooding comes from tropical depressions that stall on the coast and then pump moisture into their thunderstorm bands.)

Here's a helpful site on NWS for water coverage (observations and forecasts.)

Look to your particular state and county websites for evacuation and flood maps. Most will be putting up such pages soon if they haven't already.

[Tribalceltic]

10. It is never a mistake to prepare.

I never regretted anything I bought for emergency preparation. Never ever regretted the time spent preparing either.

[Baclava]

11. hunker down east coasters

"The Weather Channel has expanded its aware area out to Ohio and the alert area has been put in place in much of the mid-atlantic/northeast.

Gale-force winds 300mi out from center by the time it hits eastern US"

[RoccoR5955]

13. WE pay attention to the weather here in the Northeast

It changes so frequently that we can't miss the spurts of good weather we get now and again.
If you don't like the weather here, whatever it is, just wait a while, it'll change.
I just can't stand it when stores get so crowded that people have huge amounts of food and such, only to find that the storm has passed us by.
I, for one never trust a weather prediction that predicts more than 2 days ahead, at the very most.
You know that the weather reporter is one of the very few jobs where you can be wrong most of the time and still keep your job.

[sarge43]

18. In NE almost guaranteed to be wrong most of the time

Until the sky turns black and the birch trees bend at a 45 degree angle,

[Bohunk68]

15. Schoharie County NY checking in.

fb has been jumping for the last two days about this. We are all nervous as a cat in a roomful of rocking chairs. Everyone is gearing up for an evacuation, if needed. We still haven't recovered from the floods caused by Irene and Lee last year. I had tried to warn people that my 32 years worth of weather records show a dramatic increase in both temp and rainfall and that a storm like those were bound to happen again AND within 10 years. But, noooooooooo, no one wanted to hear that. Instead, it's rebuild right back in the same places where generations had lived. Glad I live on high ground and only got some water in the basement that was handled by a sump pump. Getting ready.

[HopeHoops]

16. We shouldn't get hit too hard (20-30 mph prediction for Tuesday), but Halloween is Wednesday.

I just hope things are mellow for the kids.

When we lived in NH, our went out on a terrible night, but in multiple layers so they weren't cold. People were giving out HANDFULS of candy because so few kids came around. I love seeing all of the costumes and the looks on the children's faces. It would be a shame if Sandy ruined it for them.

[revolution breeze]

17. Not trying to negate the seriousness

of this storm, but consider getting your early ballot cast as part of your preparation. Having been through a few too many hurricanes, I know how confused things are after a storm, especially of this magnitude.