Huge storm coming! Anyone one have any driving advice besides " dont do it."

My aunt, who is in her early 80s, lives in Rehoboth Beach - and we live in NJ. I'm supposed to start driving at my driver's school yard on Monday at 7am

 

I was born on the Chesapeake Bay and grew up in PA. I've been through Hurricane Agnes up there in 1972. We pumped 3' of water out of our basement. I completed a NWS course back in the 80's and was a certified NWS weather observer when I was a controller. I have a little weather knowledge. Though mother nature has a mind of it's own I like following it. Hurricanes need warm water which above the Carolinas is cold right now. That and a cold front pushing against it ought to be like a top bouncing off a wall.

Hatteras is getting it right now. My brother lives outside Norfolk, VA. I'll give him a call in a little while and see how bad it is.

 

just talked to my son in Hatteras Nc blowing 40 out of the NE seas are 18-24 feet at the tower 30 miles offshore
they will be stranded again as route 12 washes away above rodanthe
I am sorry if I offended you
I spent 38 years commercial fishing from Yarmouth NS to Wrightsville Beach NC
Came home to Gloucester Mass just a week before the "Perfect Storm" lost 2 friends on the Andrea Gail
so weather has affected my whole life and the power of the sea

God gave us barrier islands to protect the people on the mainland not for the rich folk to have summer homes

Crisfield Cambridge and Easton Md will all be flooded as the storm passes and winds turn back to the NW and the bay empties out from Baltimore and Washington

 

You didn't offend me. Only my sister does that.

Here's the latest. Atlantic City should get the worse but Trump can handle it.

I still think it'll brush the coast and stay on a northerly track.

They say 80 mph winds when it hit's DE, MD, NJ. 50 mph winds when it hits PA and that's where all the snow will be.

Then NY state will get 35 mph winds.

 

Ok let me just throw this out there--for those who are unfamiliar with the inland areas of the NE--while the terrrain changes quickly as you get away from the coast--the one thing YOU have to take into account--especially in the 1st couple hundred miles--is the amount of small streams creeks etc.....In the few years I have now lived up here and all the years Ive run thru here--it is the small tributeries that give these ares the greatest trouble and while it is true--that many of us live high enough where the house flooding is highly unlikely--think about the amount of roads you have traveled in these area's alongside some type of running water--in an event like this most if not all of those--idyllic creeks and streams quickly become whitewater rapids--and many times it doesn't take a whole lot to flood the ajoining roads--including interstates! And although for those of us who have spent lots of time in "real" Hurricane prone area's may look at this as just a bad afternoon thunderstorm--It is the speed of this storm that has my guard up--a prolonged low pressure system taking 1.5-3 days to move thru is gonna DUMP ALOT OF WATER and that water needs somewhere to go....
So folks be aware of your surrondings! If you do have to wait it out--try to find some higher ground--away from any water!
I know this maybe a challenge--I am just throwin some things out for y'all to think about--
Also--watch your routing very closely the entire NE has lots of bridges--as you well no--IF WE ACTUALLY SEE sustained winds over 50mph--you may find your routing affected by closures--It rarely happens--but it has---
And lastly--those of you who who are in other parts of the country and may find yourself headin this way later in the week--keep this in mind--some of the worst flooding I have ever seen in this area--is 2-3 days after the storm--remember all those little streams I talked about--it all has to come back--almost everything up here mt's back into the ocean or the Chesapeke---In the end there are only 3 major rivers that carry all that water back--think of how the Chesapeke was nearly destroyed over the years from runoff--So typically low lying area's in the Philly area especially--but there are many others--flood--or stayed flooded for days after these events!
Just my $.02

 

more info
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/hurricane-sandy-superstorm-20121027

 

I'm actually headed out to National Guard in Delware as we speak. I'm not in the guard but hauling a personel carrier for them.
Would they mind if I was a few days late?
And why did I choose to take this load?

 

They are built to float you know.

 

If it's like they say there will be a coastal evacuation. I just seen on the news Atlantic City has to evacuate tomorrow. You might have to wait until Tuesday to go in behind it. Keep your ears open.

 

On another quick not(LOL)--in this case as in many--the eye itself or landfall shall we say is really not that relevant--it is the size and breadth of this one--and the long continued wrap around that is of most conceerned--and while a typical "southern storm"quickly loses punch as it gets over dry land--and things start to return to normal--in this case you have to think more winter type 'noreaster---no matter where she comes on land--it is going to be the 24 hrs leading up to landfall--when the storm surges will come---BUT--for 24-36 hours AFTER--the wrap around effects could very well be much stronger--thus throwin her effects much fruther west and north than you might expect and if by some strange chance she does decide to hang the coast and move more north--frankly for the major metro's this is the worst possible scenario as the surge up the delaware and hudson will last much longer!