‘worst storm in 100 years’

[Ponce]

I like the last line "Get your preps ready"........preps are becoming a way of life, like my do grabing his bone when we go out for a walk.
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WORST STORM IN 100 YEARS’
Hurricane Sandy will probably grow into a “Frankenstorm” that may become the worst to hit the U.S. Northeast in 100 years if current forecasts are correct.

Sandy may combine with a second storm coming out of the Midwest to create a system that would rival the New England hurricane of 1938 in intensity, said Paul Kocin, aNational Weather Service meteorologist in College Park,Maryland. The hurricane currently passing the Bahamas has killed 21 people across the Caribbean, the Associated Press reported, citing local officials.

“What we’re seeing in some of our models is a storm at an intensity that we have not seen in this part of the country in the past century,” Kocin said in a telephone interview yesterday. “We’re not trying to hype it, this is what we’re seeing in some of our models. It may come in weaker.”

The hybrid storm may strike anywhere from the Delaware- Maryland-Virginia peninsula to southern New England. The current National Hurricane Center track calls for the system to go ashore in New Jersey on Oct. 30, although landfall predictions often change as storms get closer to shore.

A tropical-storm watch was issued from Savannah River northward to Oregon Inlet in North Carolina, the U.S. NHC said in an advisory. A tropical storm warning is in effect forFlorida’s east coast from Ocean Reef to Flagler Beach. A storm watch means tropical storm conditions are possible within the region, a warning means tropical storm conditions are expected.

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A full moon at the same time will add higher than normal tides to the water that Sandy will be pushing up on shore.

Expect massive flooding.

Wind field could be huge, on the order of 500 miles diameter all at Cat 1 strength.

Also, Appalachians could see massive snow falls.

Real doom with catastrophic damage potential and electricity out for many days.

Get your preps ready.

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[Dogman]

If those two systems meet, it does look like it could turn into a real stinker for people living in its path.

[k-os]

Category 1? Not quite a super storm.

[chad]

i heard a top of the hour radio clip where the head of the dnc is hoping for a cat 4, because it will give obama a chance to go out and "show sympathy" to the displaced after the storm.

[Dogman]

Category 1? Not quite a super storm.

Yea, but I think they are thinking the hurricane will get stronger than it is now.

[Libertytree]

According to what I read there's 3 storms colliding, Hurricane Sandy, a major front from the west and an arctic blast from Canada. It's the triple combo that has them worried.

[k-os]

Yea, but I think they are thinking the hurricane will get stronger than it is now.

Not from anything I have read, which admittedly isn't much . . . but it was Cat 1 all the way.

[Dogman]

Not from anything I have read, which admittedly isn't much . . . but it was Cat 1 all the way.

The eye of the storm is still in the Bahamas and there is a "Lot" of ocean between there and new england, that the storm will be in the gulf stream and that can make the right now cat 1 storm grow.

As I understand it.

[MNeagle]

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I believe you're on the west coast K-os, so you're a bit sheltered?

Though I have no doubit they can 'steer' storms, & direct them as they wish. Am curious if the smack-daddy leaves DC & heads to Colorado.

[Santa]

I like the last line "Get your preps ready"........preps are becoming a way of life, like my do grabing his bone when we go out for a walk.

"Grab your bone. A storm is coming." by Ponce