Hurricane Sandy

[daoman89]

I think they can survive a day without assassins creed 3 for a day.  They wont have power anyways

[Archem]

Having those kinds of winds right now here in New Jersey. I'm pretty far inland, though, so at least I don't have to worry about any flooding!

Don't count your chickens. I've seen some crazy flooding happen in my time.

[fruckert]

My mom's area has to worry about flooding.
It's been raining for days out here.
Even though we're not going through a hurricane...

[Bluhman]

Here in Westurn New Yahk, people are panicking and stocking up on supplies. Pffffft.

Pfffffft indeed. The wind's only at 24 MPH right now, and I feel like I'm more likely to die from rain and windchill than trees running me over.

Of course, it's scheduled to get worst over here on Tuesday or something. Or maybe that's when it stops?

Regardless, hold tight dammit. I'm just hoping for now power outa

[drenrin2120]

Western Mass has got it easy so far. Gusts were pickin up around 5 pm EST 40-50 mph, but things have largely calmed down. Hard to tell what's going on though. News is spotty and the local news around here are a bunch of idiots.

[greenraven]

Fun random fact. I'm one of those crazy "tornado chasers" you hear about. I really REALLY wish I was on the east coast right now. Alas it's been clear and sunny over here.

[MissingName]

"I'd keep playing. I don't think the heavy stuff will come down for a while."

[daoman89]

I'm sorry, but this is a hilarious picture

https://twitter.com/SandysHurricane/status/263078028949733376/photo/1

[A Forgotten Legend]

The Hurricane Sandy twitters are so hilarious.

[Archem]

I'd like them more if they weren't so... Crude.

[MissingName]

Well... I'm surprised.  Classes have been cancelled for today (30th).

[SaiKar]

Virginia is getting light rains, but nothing worse. This is barely normal storm weather. Guess it's hitting north of where I live.

[A Forgotten Legend]

I still have classes, basically the same situation as Saikar-- although we have a massive oak grove in the middle of campus and its quite possible for those trees to go down. (We lose a couple every year without hurricane winds... or remnants of them at least)

[drenrin2120]

Good over here in west mass. eastern mass got slammed. hundreds of thousand s without power. dont we have some charasians in east mass?

[Zerlina]

Flooding, and the power's out where I live, am staying with a friend in a more solid apartment til this ends.

A woman in our city was killed last night when a sign blew off and fell on her.

I tried to take pictures, but when I pulled out my camera I got the "Memory Card Full. Would you like to delete some photos?" message. Unfortunately missed the shots. But the scene last night coming home from the midnight launch was ridiculous. I got a ride to a friend's with my assistant manager. The busiest street in Toronto was completely deserted. When we walked to the parking lot, we stopped in the middle of the road and just looked around because this never happens. We drove through the financial district and the trees were blowing sideways. At one point when the car was stopped, the wind blew so hard, the car began to rattle. A stop light was down and when I looked at one corner, I saw that there was only a red light; the section with the yellow and green light had broken off and been carried away. As we pulled onto Mt Pleasant (sort of like a highway), I saw three newspaper boxes (big, heavy, metal ones) just lying on the road. The weirdest part is that the city streets were completely deserted. No one was outside. With the sideways trees, it looked really surreal.

As for the midnight launch- maybe 45 people showed up out of the expected 250.

The centre of the storm is expected to hit my city tonight, and I called my store. Head office hasn't given us permission to close early, so I have to go to work tonight.

I'm going to be coming home in the worst of the storm, and I really don't want to be outside with the amount of **** flying around. I have my fingers crossed head office will call and tell us to close, being that many of the sales associates need to walk and take public transit to work, but they rarely seem concerned with us, so I doubt it will happen. I'm not sure who is even going to be shopping late at night anyway. I mean, I know people really ****ing want assassin's creed, but I also don't want to trek outside in a hurricane to give it to them.