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So I guess takeout’s out of the question tomorrow. 
Yes, I am sure that it is just as bad 300-400 miles away as it is 10 miles away from the eye.
I am sure it’s going to rain. There will be some wind. With the way BGE set up transmission lines around here, I am sure there will be some sporadic power outages. But I really don’t expect anything serious before Monday night.
How busy are the Interstates? Are people fleeing before it hits?
Honestly, I’d already be in the car if lived in that area. This may be the historic storm they will be talking about 75 years from now.
Take care of yourselves out there.
Lights went off and on already and it’s not supposed to get serious until tomorrow! Not good.
Tons of K-12 schools are already closed, and UNH (my employer) doesn’t plan to reopen until Wednesday. Um, guys? Aren’t we better off a work tomorrow before the storm hits than on Wednesday?
I have a bad feeling we may be evacuating soon. I should’ve bought more beer today. 
They also have to board up the school in advance of the storm and the people doing that probably want to get home to take care of stuff at home. It would be dangerous to be dragging lumber and ladders around a bunch of kids who wouldn’t be paying attention to one second of the teacher’s efforts.
Getting breezy out there, but very little rain or serious wind so far. Both my husband and I are off work tomorrow because the government will be closed. I’m hoping the power stays on through tomorrow, because I get a little crazy with no Internet.
Forecasts are depressing. They’ve upgraded the amount of rain expected to 6-10 inches, and apparently DC is closing down the transit system - I guess wind gusts are dangerous if you’re waiting for a train on an outdoor platform.
Email notifications: both schools are closed for 2 days. Robo-call from the town saying stay off the roads. Robo-call from State Farm saying to plywood up the windows. From the live radar, south & west are getting hammered. Ocean, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Atlantic, Salem, Cumberland, and Cape May.
FTR- I wouldn’t want to be staying in a beach-front hotel in Wildwood tonight.
Not even windy just outside Philly at the moment, just waiting for it to fire up.
I think Irene has spooked the people around here, at least in most cases. I understand that it’s possible that storm surge could come way up the Hudson and cause problems for low areas. And if rain is heavy locally it could definitely cause some local flooding. But the forecast at this point is for about 2 inches of rain over 2 days, with sustained winds in the 20-30 MPH range with gusts up to 60. Unpleasant to be sure and I understand the chance of losing power lines to tree limbs in that kind of wind. But I really don’t understand all the school closings on Monday.
I went to do the normal grocery shopping today (bought a couple extra things just in case) and people had managed to panic-buy all the water.
Checking in from Boston area, MA. Most of the schools are closed tomorrow and my office too. The wind has really picked up in the last hour.
Northern NJ here. No school the next two days and a huge run on all commodities. It’s raining hard outside already. Irene left us without power for 25 hours. I am not looking forward to meeting Sandy. Today has been a pain in the ass of prep. My husband’s not going to work tomorrow because the NYC subways and NJ transit have been shut down.
If anyone needs a place to stay pm me. We may not have power but we have kids, cats and lots and lots of canned food and water.
from what the forecast is projecting, the storm will be turning around 2-3 pm tomorrow. with the center of it coming on shore around 8pm.
better not to deal with schools dismissing students when things are going downhill with roads flooding. in philly many students take septa to school and septa is shutting down after the last runs of the night, no buses after 12:30am.
haven’t heard from my office as yet.
It’s already starting to flood in Wildwood. There’s a picture from around 4-5 showing significant water in the streets.
No one boards up schools here 
This is not Florida.
Calvert County, MD checking in. This afternoon, we were getting a lot of wind - nothing severe, but consistently in the 20-30 mph range. And knowing that we were just getting the first mild taste of Sandy, I went around the yard, gathering up anything that could be picked up by a high wind, and securing it or stuffing it in the shed.
Now we’re getting both rain and wind, of course.
The public schools in the entire DC area are closed for tomorrow at this point, and some have already said they’ll be closed on Tuesday. The Federal government is closed tomorrow too, which isn’t too surprising - they wouldn’t have had much of a workforce, given the number of parents working for the Feds who will have to stay home with the kids, including yours truly.
It’s not the winds themselves. It’s the high winds and wet roads acting on cars and buses.
Here in the DC area, we get accidents closing down major traffic arteries in much tamer circumstances than these, just because so many roads are handling about as much traffic as possible. Business as usual on a day like tomorrow is expected to be, is just asking for trouble.
FEMA stated that in the event of a power outage they ask that people communicate via text/email rather than voice.
I saw that elsewhere and thought I’d pass it along.
Won’t do me any good. If the power goes out, I’ll have no internet access, and I’m not sure my phone has text capabilities. If it does, I don’t know how to use them.