Don Poole and Spledeus

Thanks for the note. Reading about it here has greater weight than the weather channel; they always hype up the storms. A couple years ago we got hit with the first winter storm of the season. A week or two later when the next storm was off California, TWC reported "Looks like it's headed right for Cape Cod". It missed entirely.

If we do get a good one, I'll be out afterwards locating the water stain elevations to see if we meet FEMA's estimates. If you believe in statistics, we are due for the 100-year event and it's been a little while since a home has fallen into the sea.

From what we're seeing here, this thing could hit anywhere from DelMarVa to Boston.

I'm guessing Saturday night into Sunday will bring more accurate predictions.

The Port Authority is issueing warnings to tenants at the marine facilities and asking them to remove barges and scows. Public berths will probably be closed starting at 1700 hours Sunday.
We currently have 2 berths with collapse damage that are remediated with gabion walls to retain fill, but one is under construction and we might lose the seawall and upland fill. This could be a major disaster at my facility.
I monitor one berth over the weekends due to living close to the facility and I will see how the tides and winds start to blow probably sometime Sunday late or Monday.

Head for the hills!

You mid-atl and NE coasters should really pay attention this bad girl. I am more interested in the potential snow threat in the Appl mts. Some mets are calling for feet of snow. Guess the Whites and the Loaf will get buried too.

Here is link to a Hurricane Sandy thread on a weather forum I am a member of:

http://www.hardcoreweather.com/showthread.php/26605-HURRICANE-SANDY

Full of useful information, NWS and Non-NWS.

I spend about 60% of my internet time here.

It is the one stop tropical weather forum.

Frankenstorm

Apparently it's time to panic: 8AM Friday: Hurricane Sandy Update

From the author of the link, who previously won the American Meteorological Society's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Applied Meteorology:

" A very prominent and respected National Weather Service meteorologist wrote on Facebook last night,

I've never seen anything like this and I'm at a loss for expletives to describe what this storm could do.

Yes, I've never seen anything like it either nor have our modern meteorological tools. As I wrote yesterday afternoon, we don't know whether our tools are up to the task because no storm of this nature has occurred in the modern meteorological era."

Frankenstorm

Our overnight trip to Philadelphia starts Saturday AM and ends Sunday evening......hopefully just ahead of the impending doom.

Looks like an inland route may be in order to avoid the evacuees.

Thanks for the thoughts Andy. Actually I'm visiting my father in laws house on the Jersey Shore, Long Beach Island, for the weekend. May get some surfing in today, Saturday, before heading inland tomorrow, I hope to be home for this storm event.
My gut says land fall in Jersey.
Don

I truly fear the storm surge on this one...multiple high tides..no place for water to go!