Quote Originally Posted by BleedingOrange36 View Post
It's not soo much the hurricane that has my area ( southern new jersey) worried.... It's the combination of the nor'easter moving in, with the cold front. They are saying the storm will last about 3 days. With me being in the fire department, I know I won't be able to be home trough the entire ordeal to watch over my animals. I have 10hr heat packs. I would be able to get back home every few hours to swap them out and check on my animals. Before I had all my animals to look after, I would of stood outside and welcomed the storm.... Now I would rather see if go out to sea.....
I wonder if the Nor'easter might push Sandy back out to sea? When I was in Mass last year in December the winds were crazy in a regular old thunder storm.

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Quote Originally Posted by RobNJ View Post
The biggest concern with storms like this isn't so much the force of the wind, but flooding. When there are hills/mountains stretching for miles and miles, water from rainfall is always moving. 5+ inches of rain over a day's time is a ton of water that has to go somewhere... Hurricane Irene(Cat 1) tore out roads, collapsed bridges, flooded entire towns, etc... And the worst of it was in the higher elevation areas, not coastal(from New Jersey and northward anyway)...though with the storm hitting during a full moon, coastal areas are under closer watch.
True. So sandbags are probably advisable then. Like I said, things are built differently in the northeast, so I could easily see how a storm that we Floridians would consider a bad thunderstorm essentially could cause more damage. Things in Florida are built specifically with the necessity of withstanding hurricanes in mind.