What's your weather like?

[scrub-jay]

The snow's totally nice, actually. Elegant, not icy, didn't stick to the roads. And even if it snows all through tomorrow, which it might, it'll likely all have melted by the end of the weekend. That's my preferred kind of snow.

And it is currently sunny, so the trees are sparkly. Although I hear we're getting more over the evening commute. I should've looked at the forecast before I went to bed, but it was pretty funny waking up to a toddler clomping into my room with her snow boots over jammies squealing with delight and proclaiming it was time to go outside (it was 5:30am).

[HouseofWool]

And it is currently sunny, so the trees are sparkly. Although I hear we're getting more over the evening commute. I should've looked at the forecast before I went to bed, but it was pretty funny waking up to a toddler clomping into my room with her snow boots over jammies squealing with delight and proclaiming it was time to go outside (it was 5:30am).

That's sweet and much nicer that waking at 5:30 because your pre-schooler kicked you because she was too scared to sleep in her own bed because of the storm. (Hi, my name is Kris and I am off to have my 4th giant cup of coffee today. You will find me twitching in a corner.)

It is still raining, and now hailing. Yipeee! While we need the rain, I would rather it not all come in one fell swoop!

[BonBon]

Kris, I agree about the rain! It's 70s today and tomorrow, but then the temp drops (low 40s DAYTIME on Halloween...crap) and we're getting lots and lots of rain.

[HouseofWool]

We ended up with about 2.5" in 18 hours and a 20ish degree drop in temp. Wahoo!

[BonBon]

We ended up with about 2.5" in 18 hours and a 20ish degree drop in temp. Wahoo!

Oy, good thing it's NOT cold enough for snow, if 1" of rain equals a foot of snow is true!

[Cinderella]

The news is scaring us back West with this "FrankenStorm" story that is scheduled to slam the North Eastern Coast over Halloween. It's the projected hurricane Sandy and the Artic Blast colliding over the region and they're estimating over one billion dollars worth of potential damage. I hope everyone is going to be alright!

[ladymoreta]

Me too! This sounds really bad.

[Cinderella]

Some part of me wonders if this is a hyped news story because Sweeps has started. In the situationers they explain that there are several possibilities for the projected path of this hurricane but they focus on the one that slams NE and give it the glorified name of "FrankenStorm"! Mwah ha ha! It's a case of you have to watch the TV or loads of people will die being without power in the winter and billions of dollars of damage will be done!

I hope it's really a case of the weather man is wrong because hurricanes are fickle and we've seen them do funny things like go back out to sea and do loops. The Arctic blast though is another thing. The winter conditions brought on by that this time of year are real.

[SoonerTexan]

Cinderella that is a really good point. I completely gave up on the weather channel when they started naming winter storms outside of the authority of the NWS. I'm only going to believe the NWS web it comes to this coming storm.

[corn poffi]

I'm just sick of the media acting like any storm that might hit NYC is the beginning of the apocalypse.

[Thirteen]

Our neighbor does wiring for electric, and their whole section just got called out for two weeks to be there on the East Coast when the storm hits.
Guess they're taking it seriously...

[Cinderella]

It probably goes without saying but ya, it still has to be taken seriously. Better to err on the side of caution.

[HouseofWool]

As someone who was there during the big blackout, I still have bad memories of it...

[Cinderella]

Back West here we're starting to see video of government officials from that region telling their people to take this storm seriously over the Halloween Weekend and citing the power outages of the 2011 storms. We're also seeing video of the power companies across the region preparing and communicating with the public about what their doing and what they advise their customers to do. Water, generators, supplies, ect. Do what you'd do to prepare for a winter storm and also a hurricane. Checklist for severe storm.

I just pulled a couple random links that generated when I did a search. There may be more specific lists for your area. Stay safe peeps!

[niener]

Whoops, I started the Hurricane Sandy thread before I saw that this thread had taken a turn in that direction so I apologize if that caused more confusion! But yes, everyone stay safe! I think East Coast storms are hyped so much just because there are sooooooo many people in a much smaller are than say Florida and the Gulf Coast so the potential number of lives impacted is greater.