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This is a very interesting thread! Thanks for posting all your updates! Good luck getting out by noon today! (Where will you go?)
Thank you. To bed. no right now we are trying to make that choice.
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Originally Posted by mcc0313
Stay safe Kim, thanks for the updates. Hopefully will get out work on time, head out to grab some more snacks and stuff for the kids. We proabbly won't get the storm they say until Sunday afternoon here in NYC, but they already set a mandatory evacuation of one of the hopsitals and some of the nursing homes in our area by Saturday and they said if the storm remains on course the MTA will do a system shutdown beginning Saturday evening.
I am in a Tier B evacuation area so I am ok to stay...my mom is a Tier A so she would probably be evacuated if it came to that, but she is on vacation, just trying to figure out who has her keys to at least tie up the stuff on her terrace.
they started evacuations of the town yesterday. We have like 4,000 international student workers in town that they got out. Then the tourests and then everyone else. the down side is it is not to hit until tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by jennie622
Please be careful and make sure you get to somewhere safe. Update when you can.
Well the update as of now. I just got home. Had to stop at the store on the way home....what a nightmare!!!! never seems to amaize me of the way people are in the store....storm or no storm!!!!
But right now I have been up from 9:30 last night so I am going to sleep for an hour and then going to decide what we are going to do.
All that will be in harms way by this Mean Hurricane, Please heed the warnings. Be safe. Material things can be replaced, but human life cannot!!! Pixies to all our east coast friends!!!!
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All that will be in harms way by this Mean Hurricane, Please heed the warnings. Be safe. Material things can be replaced, but human life cannot!!! Pixies to all our east coast friends!!!!
You are right with that one....material things can be replaced, but human life can not. After my family the only thing I care about is my photos. If I cant get to them, then I will deal but my family is what is most important to me.
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Originally Posted by Starbright
Let us know what is happening. The highest winds we get here are about 90-100 km winds and I have only seen 5 inches of rain at one time.
Stay safe everyone.
I am use to high winds and rain and flooding because of living at sea leveal. We get Noreasters that have been worse then some hurricanes that we have gotten, but this one is going to be in the record books so to speak for us.
First let me say sorry for the delay in updates. When I crashed yesterday afternoon...I really crashed. This is a link to a map of worcester county md:
So what is new in OC with the hurricane???? If you look at the above map, you can see OC that is now a goast town. West Ocean City (see map) is now under evacuation....they have to be out by 9 am this morning. This is where my mom lives. I live just out side of OC in Ocean Pines....(if you look at the map and see where it says Ocean Pines...right under it you see 90 in a circle...I live right above that circle). We are not under evacuation here in the pines yet...however as winds pick up they may tell us to. If you change the map to satellite, you will see OP is nothing but trees. It has started to rain here. The wind is also starting to pick also. The crazy part is the eye has not even hit NC yet.
Well I am going to go and let some family and friends on the west coast what is going on. Will up date in an hour or two.
The wind is picking up...about 14 miles per hour with gusts of up to 25 miles per hour. The rain is starting to pick up also. They are closing bridges in DE at some point today. The bay bridge from the easteren shore to Annapolice will be closeing today also....they are saying it will be closed when the winds get to be 55 miles per hour or more. No word yet about the chesapeake bay bridge/tunnal down in VA. when the bridges close there is no getting off Delmarva.
In other news...my mom, her dogs and hubby is coming here to hunker down for the hurricane. boy is this going to be fun....NOT!! My youngest nephew is already driving everyone crazy. Still feeling the pain from moving things at the motel yesterday. If ya look at my legs you would think someone kicked me over and over again, but it is bruses from moving things at the motel.
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Well I was just up to the gas station....People still filling up on gas, stocking up on beer, and ice. Now they have gone to start getting fried chicken. The people are doing 8 pices at a time. She has already had to do 3 batch's of chicken.
Rain is coming down harder....wind has not picked up much more then it was at 8:30!!!
There is 5 adults, 3 teens and 11 dogs at my house right now. They are all driving me crazy!!!!
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