Riders of The Storm

[larryinc64]

Well later today hurricane Sandy is suppose to hit my state, I'm live in high ground so I should not have any flooding but my power might go out.

I had a Halloween party yesterday, I was Link, and I should have not of played the song of storms.

Is any one else in its path?

[Superchop]

I am actually, I live in Central NJ and we should get hit by tonight.  A river runs right through the middle of the town and the police department already sent out notices to the flood zones to tell people to evacuate by 6pm tonight cause if not no one will be able to help them once flooding begins.

Where I live I'm close to the river but not close enough yet that they ordered a mandatory evacuation.

Windows are boarded up...the top part was more to please my mom since she was worried about rainfall pooling in between the window and bottom board.



Sand bags against the only door low enough that could allow water to get in if flooding gets bad enough.




Other then that...everything I have is charging (psp, ds, 3ds, phone, camera...the essentials lol) in case the power goes out...and even then we have a generator in the garage ready to run if need be.

[larryinc64]

They are evacuating other parts of CT, but not where I live. I have nothing boarded up but hopefully I wont need it.

I'm charging my Handhelds, my MP3 player and everything, I do not have a generator though. I can survive with out power, there was a bat storm a few years ago and my power was out for weeks. When it came back on, the fuze box near me blue. It was late and I heard "BEEP "BOOP" BOOOM! and the box was on fire for a bit. The beeps where probably my electronics. I saw my clock display scrambled text for a split second just before the exploitation.

[Superchop]

We really only have the generator because if our basement floods we can plug in sump pumps to get rid of the water.  That is of course if the water levels don't get too high.  We had a couple years where the power went out and the basement flooded before we got a generator and it was a lot of repairs and replacing the things that were down there.

Washer/dryer, water heaters, etc etc are all in the basement and at risk of getting ruined by flooding.

[Beastman1975]

i am in southern NJ and im slowly packing up my games and collectibles and moving them to higher level of our bi level house just in case

[larryinc64]

All my games are on the second story of my house, but that wont help if a tree decides to add itself to my collection. 

[Mick Dundee]

Im up in New England. But I dont think I will get the grunt of it. We live around a swamp...but its all mobile homes...we have no basements to flood.

[scarmullet]

I live in Michigan, and we should be getting the edge of it, just snow on tuesday.

[DKBananas]

I'm located in Northern New Jersey near the Passaic River.  My home does not get flooded, but many in the surrounding area do.  Many gas stations have started to close due to running out of gas.  Others have lines that back up into the street.  I have the 3ds charged up and my boat batteries ready to give a recharge for an extended outage.

[Superchop]

I'm located in Northern New Jersey near the Passaic River.

Yeah?  My girlfriend lives up around that area too.  She lives in Kearny right off pasaic ave.  Fortunately enough she lives on a road that is uphill of the river so flooding shouldn't be too bad for her except in the basement.

[wiggy]

Good luck to you guys!  Sounds like a potentially unpleasant ordeal

I'm in Notheast Ohio. We really don't get any noticeably bad weather as a result of hurricanes. Our weather is shitty enough on most any given day of the year, so I guess our one reprieve is that we don't get pummeled by hurricanes

[RealPlumpBox]

I'm in Notheast Ohio. We really don't get any noticeably bad weather as a result of hurricanes. Our weather is shitty enough on most any given day of the year, so I guess our one reprieve is that we don't get pummeled by hurricanes

I dont know Wiggy!! Come live in Seattle. 10-11 months of rain!!!



@ larry were in CT??
  here is my house from the snow last October I lived in the Burlingtob/Bristol area.  Wires ripped off the house and shit!!!  Since this storm I moved from CT to Seattle.

[larryinc64]

I live down by Long Island Sound, about 100 miles away from you.
I remember that storm, it was awful. On one night when it was snowing I had a Halloween party to go to, and the drive there was bad. Fallen trees were blocking roads, there was an entire bumper broke off of a car in front of a fallen tree in the road near his house. Though my power did not go out, my friend's did, but it came back a few hours into the party.

[RealPlumpBox]

Damn you got it lucky!! They canceled halloween for us and shut town the towns , amd no power for 2 weeks.

[wiggy]

I'm in Notheast Ohio. We really don't get any noticeably bad weather as a result of hurricanes. Our weather is shitty enough on most any given day of the year, so I guess our one reprieve is that we don't get pummeled by hurricanes

I dont know Wiggy!! Come live in Seattle. 10-11 months of rain!!!

Our winter generally lasts six months (November-Aprill, and there's this wonderful thing known as "lake effect" snow.

Basically, we have the same amount of sunless days, only with lots of snow instead rain