October 27, 2012
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Big Storm
90 percent chance that the East will get steady gale-force winds, heavy rain, flooding and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Halloween on Wednesday. Major Flooding and damage expected. Hurricane Sandy is Heading Straight for us.
Gov. Tom Corbett declared a State of Emergency and urged Pennsylvanians on Friday to prepare for a potentially dangerous super storm that could pound the entire state with a combination of damaging winds, rain and snow.
Utilities, road crews, and emergency management personnel throughout Pennsylvania are girding for a potentially-damaging storm early next week. Utility workers have been told to
cancel vacations, state transportation officials are plotting strategy and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency has been in touch with federal weather forecasters about the likely path of the storm.
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency urged residents to prepare for a possible storm by making sure they have three days of supplies at home, and that they know how to reach family members in case of emergency.Get prescriptions refilled now, especially if your doctor must approve the refill.
Keep your car’s gas tank full.
If you live in a 100-year flood plain (you can check at city hall or your library) or on the coast figure out your evacuation strategy now. Make your list of things you will take with you.
Fill a few gas cans (the type you would use for your mower) to have extra in the event of power failures.
Purchase extra staples. Without power, stores will be closed.
Purchase booster batteries for your cell phone and other essential equipment. If you need insulin or other medicine that must be kept chilled make plans now.
Consider what you would do if you were without electricity for a week. If you have an invalid living with you who requires electricity. Be proactive.
If you live in a heavily wooded area, does someone in your vicinity have a gasoline-powered chain saw? Does it have fuel and a reasonably good chain/blade?
Get to an ATM. Without power, credit card readers and ATMs will not be working. In a disaster, cash is king.
Have plenty of candles/matches
Be careful and safe
Comments (11)
Hope you all will be ok.
I hope the predictions are just way more dramatic then they will be. I feel so bad for all those poor people. I feel selfish and ignorant for complaining about not even enough snow where I could still wear flip flops.
thanks for the tips! I hope Virginia doesn’t get struck too hard D: Stay safe!
I heard about this in Canada! They are calling it a Frankenstorm! Please be careful and stay safe! <3
I heard about the storm this morning. I hope you and your family and friends are safe. I just wanted to say that the storm may knock out the cell phone towers and it may be hard to reach your loved ones or difficult. It took me a few hours to be able to call my parents and relatives in Ohio after the tornado hit Tuscaloosa.
My friends and family are still in Maryland. I’m worried about them.
*thinking of everyone on the East Coast *
great post.
After Irene last year, my family lost power for a week. When their power goes, so does their water, because it’s well water. We’re getting creative this time. Filling both bath tubs, all our empty soda/liquor bottles, bringing the chickens inside, bought something that hooks up to the car battery and can run our sump pump, etc. Last time, we had to bathe and wash dishes with pool water.
Oh, and we’re stocking up on booze.
Gasoline? Electricity? ATM? Weren’t you Amish once?
Great tips. Thanks!