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Hurricane Sandy [Current Official Track has Hurricane Hitting Delaware]
National Hurricane Center ^ | 10/26/12

Posted on 10/26/2012 12:15:00 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 2012; hurricanesandy; nhc; sandy
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1 posted on 10/26/2012 12:15:08 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
It is important for folks in the Mid-Atlantic and New England to not focus on the forecast track, unless you are along the coast. This will be an extratropical system by the time it reaches land and strong winds will not just be around the center, but spread out hundreds of miles from the center. And we could have a two-day period of tropical-storm strength winds, very bad for knocking down trees and power lines. Also, further inland there could be very heavy, wet snow in Western PA and West Virginia and adjacent areas.

If you are along the coast, the worst surge will be to the north of the core of the storm. So if the storm goes through Delaware, for example, Delaware Bay and the Jersey Shore would get the worst surge, and probably have bad surge all the way up to NYC and Long Island.

2 posted on 10/26/2012 12:20:46 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: SoFloFreeper

Looks like Halloween will be a wash-out


3 posted on 10/26/2012 12:22:46 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PGR88

Looks like it’s headed right for DC. Is God about to clean house for us?


4 posted on 10/26/2012 12:27:15 PM PDT by Josephat
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To: SoFloFreeper

yikes, I’m located right above the “N” of NJ...last years storm did real damage tree wise and this is suppose to be greater....big run on water in the stores today, no generators, all gone....


5 posted on 10/26/2012 12:35:00 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SoFloFreeper

Slow Joe better start campaigning in his home state...NOW!


6 posted on 10/26/2012 12:35:17 PM PDT by copaliscrossing (Progressives are Socialists)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Just last night Fox was telling us that it was going to be hitting NYC and cause untold destruction!


7 posted on 10/26/2012 12:48:59 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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Who will be hit hardest?


8 posted on 10/26/2012 12:52:41 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: dirtboy

Well, I’m on Long Island, so we’ll probably get something. My mother’s right on the Sound and there’s a very high tide expected with the Oct. 29 full moon — she’s worried (and she should be; the tides have breached the seawall before).

I’m not as close to the water, and on much higher ground so I’m not worried about flooding but last year’s storms took out 2 of my biggest trees. I’ve got a monster maple in the backyard I’m afraid can come down. We’ll be keeping our fingers crossed and the kids in the basement just in case.

Regards,


9 posted on 10/26/2012 12:59:54 PM PDT by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

My daughter in Cape May says she will be here with her dog if the Jersey shore is evacuated.


10 posted on 10/26/2012 1:04:04 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nadie me ama como Jesus.)
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To: fortheDeclaration
Just last night Fox was telling us that it was going to be hitting NYC and cause untold destruction!

This storm could be wide enough to hammer NYC from a landfall down in the Delmarva Peninsula.

11 posted on 10/26/2012 1:06:23 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Who will be hit hardest?

That's easy!


12 posted on 10/26/2012 1:07:21 PM PDT by WVKayaker ("Mitt Romney couldn't keep up with lies and spin of Barack Obama" - Sarah Palin 10/24)
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To: SoFloFreeper

That would be truly remarkable. In the history of recordkeeping, Delaware is the only state along the Eastern/Gulf seaboard from Texas to Maine that has never experienced a landfall.


13 posted on 10/26/2012 1:08:49 PM PDT by rhinohunter
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Tell her to stay safe.


14 posted on 10/26/2012 1:21:03 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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I did. You be careful too.


15 posted on 10/26/2012 1:25:00 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Nadie me ama como Jesus.)
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Will do - just have last minute stuff to pick up.....


16 posted on 10/26/2012 1:43:02 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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YAWN!

Even money this takes a right hook and goes out to sea.


17 posted on 10/26/2012 1:45:03 PM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: Josephat

I hope God isn’t about to clean house. I live in Rockville during the week (bad enough...very close to D.C.), but my sister is living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, just 10 minutes from Delaware. Pray God he’s NOT cleaning house, please pray.


18 posted on 10/26/2012 1:46:50 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: dirtboy

They were saying it was going to be a direct hit.


19 posted on 10/26/2012 1:47:08 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: rhinohunter

Awwww man... don’t jinx it...

i just cancelled my scout troop’s camp trip upstate delaware... didn’t look good.

wind rain and whining...

so now it will turn east and not hit us.

t


20 posted on 10/26/2012 1:53:56 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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