The storm isn't doing much to us....

[conuly]

But the nieces are wreaking havoc inside! I didn't think, we should've invited friends over before the storm hit so they'd have somebody to play with!

If we were in a shelter at the local school they'd theoretically have other kids there... but those shelters are at less than 5% capacity, so maybe not so much. (I'd've stayed home with the cats. The shelters do accept pets, but unless it's really bad I don't want to drag them out like that.)

And now we find that the schools are closed again tomorrow! We really might not have Halloween after all. I want to email their teachers, find out their spelling lists for the week. It'd be something to do, anyway.

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[pne]

The storm isn't doing much to us....

I had been thinking of you, hearing about Staten Island. I suppose I could have checked your journal a bit earlier....

[conuly]

Yes, that would've made sense ; )

But as I keep saying, this end of the island has hills, Sri Lankan food, and black people. That part of the island has wetlands, beachfront property, and Italians. So the one thing we can be sure of here is that getting swamped from the sea is unlikely unless you are literally right on the water. The rest of the island... Not as much.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

It's good the shelters are only at 5% capacity, but sheesh, would you seriously be thinking of going to one? Heck of a storm, I know, but... that bad? Stay safe, dearheart, and I hope you find some way to un-havoc the girlies!

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

Eep, I hope that things return to normal for you guys soon! It's good that you've been able to be home though. Stay safe hun!

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Thanks; that's a lot of good information. Alas, it seems my daughter's grandparents' summer house on Long Beach Island is totally trashed (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/10/lbi_hurricane_sandy_damage.html), maybe entirely gone. I don't watch TV, and have been avoiding news online lately, so didn't realize how bad it's gotten.

I lived in East Brunswick, NJ from 1966 to 1973 when I went away to school, so I was there for the big storms of 1967 and 1969 - it was a great time to live at the top of the best sled-hill. Then I moved to Columbus, OH in August 1977, so my first winter there was the Great Blizzards of '78. Power was out all over the city for that one; the whole state was declared a Disaster Area because people were freezing to death in their snowed-in houses - it snowed sideways for days, then the temperature dropped and the wind blew even wilder; it was like Siberia.

I love extreme weather, but there is a limit.

[conuly]

It turned out to be every bit as bad as you didn't think. I'm at the ETG right now using their computers :)

We had a ship turned up on the island just a few blocks from us, the nieces went to see it Tuesday. The winds were so bad that everybody slept in the basement, of all things, on Monday, which seems backwards but as I said, our risk is flooding. It'd have to be a positively apocalyptic surge to affect us on the hill where we are, and it *nearly* was, but not quite.