Sandy Preparations

From Yahoo:

"Superstorm could impact 60 million people in US; coastal residents told to get out of the way"

Forget distinctions like tropical storm or hurricane. Don't get fixated on a particular track. Wherever it hits, the rare behemoth storm inexorably gathering in the eastern U.S. will afflict a third of the country with sheets of rain, high winds and heavy snow, say officials who warned millions in coastal areas to get out of the way. "We're looking at impact of greater than 50 to 60 million people," said Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As Hurricane Sandy barrelled north from the Caribbean — where it left nearly five dozen dead — to meet two other powerful winter storms, experts said it didn't matter how strong the storm was when it hit land: The rare hybrid storm that follows will cause havoc over 800 miles from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie declared a state of emergency Saturday as hundreds of coastal residents started moving inland and the state was set to close its casinos. Governors from North Carolina, where heavy rain was expected Sunday, to Connecticut declared states of emergency. Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities by 8 p.m. Sunday. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to prepare to shut the city's subways, buses and suburban trains by Sunday, but delayed making a final decision. The city shut the subways down before last year's Hurricane Irene, and a Columbia University study predicted that an Irene surge just 1 foot higher would have paralyzed lower Manhattan. Up and down the Eastern Seaboard and far inland, officials urged residents and businesses to prepare in big ways and little. On Saturday evening, Amtrak began cancelling train service to parts of the East Coast, including between Washington, D.C., and New York. Airlines started moving planes out of East Coast airports to avoid damage and adding flights out of New York and Washington on Sunday in preparation for flight cancellations on Monday.

^ Every media outlet has been talking about Sandy for the past several days and they all say the same thing: it is the biggest storm we have seen in decades and they aren't sure where it is going to make landfill. My local news said that as of right now we will only get light rain and wind from Sandy, but if she makes landfall 23 miles more north than we can expect drenching rain, gusty winds and maybe even heavy snow. This time last year (on October 30th) we got 1 1/2 feet of snow so we are used to big, odd October storms. Either way we are as prepared as can possibly be and try and stay that way throughout the year so we don't have to worry too much about a specific storm (rain or snow.) ^

http://news.yahoo.com/superstorm-could-impact-60-million-people-us-coastal-064340262.html