hurricane sandy

Please stop fighting and turning this support thread into a stupid arguement about who has been through a bigger storm

Seriously? Who cares.

I live in the middle of Canada and I cant imagine prepping for a storm of this magnitude, never mind a level one hurricane. Ill take a blizzard any day...

I hope everyone is warm and safe and wish everyone good luck and best wishes as they ride out the storm. My thoughts will be with you all!!!

I lived in FL my whole life, experience tropical storms, hurricanes, and whatnot yearly. I have some food in the fridge, food in the freezer, and gas in my car. It's a category one.. Some flooding, loss of electric, and down trees. I'm more pissed that my flight got cancelled because I've driven through worse. Not worried honestly.

A hurricane in the Northeast is NOT THE SAME as a hurricane in Florida. Not to mention, as I stated before, this is going to be three storm systems coming together. It isn't JUST a category 1 hurricane you have to worry about.

This is the attitude that scares me and makes me concerned there will be a lot more casualties of this storm than people realize.

This is like me saying if three feet of snow were predicted in Tallahassee tomorrow that it's "no big deal" because I lived through seven feet of snow in one storm in Buffalo once. Snow in Florida is not the same as snow in Buffalo. People would die here. It would be chaos.

And as far as it only being a level 1, that takes into account sustained wind speed, not gusts, not the potential for tornadoes and not the amount of possible rainfall.

My boyfriend grew up in West Palm Beach and has lived through several hurricanes of varying strengths and he doesn't think this storm is "no big deal."

Also, driving through rain and an airplane taking off or landing in a hurricane? Yeah ... not even comparable.

I've been weeks without power due to hurricanes in florida that were much stronger than this storm. I'm not afraid of it, it's a storm, rain, wind, and loss of power. I've experienced having severe flooding, power lines down, no water, and no electric for weeks at a time. A category 1 hurricane that is over cold water hitting the coast doesn't scare me... Sorry it just doesn't. I lived 10 minutes from the beach in FL and the streets you'd have to travel by canoe and inner tubes lol. I've been through every type of storm. Just because some people are scared and freaking out doesn't mean others have to as well. I know how to take care of myself, I'm not the least bit worried or concerned. And a plane taking off the day after the storm being gone with some winds 20-35mph and a flight being cancelled is a bit ridiculous.. My grandfather just passed, and if I wasn't able to get a ticket for Thurs, I would have driven down.

Darling, you're not in Florida anymore. And this is not JUST a category 1 hurricane. It's three storms meeting and creating a super storm.

I hope that you ARE OK, but I also hope you're taking this more seriously than you seem to be. Being without power for a while and having a flood are the least of the things that can happen with this. The buildings in the Northeast are built for snow storms, not hurricanes or tornadoes like they are down here. And the people meant to help clean things up after are not trained for the aftermath of a hurricane.

People didn't take Katrina seriously, either. Look what happened. People didn't take Ivan seriously. Look what happened. And both those storms hit hurricane prone areas.

I'm very used to snow, but I'd be extremely concerned if we got any significant snow here because the people who live here would be lost and that affects everyone, even those of us who are used to it.

I'm sorry about your grandfather, but the airlines make decisions to keep people safe. If they cancelled flights (costing them money), they did it for a reason.

I do appreciate your concern, I do.

I don't mean to come off as arrogant or an *kitten* in anyway. I just really look at things from a logical point of view. There's always one extreme over another. There are ways to get warm, but once you've hit severe dehydration and heat stroke and no way to get cool, I can't say that the circumstance doesn't equal a freezing night in it's own way. They are both opposite sides of the spectrum but both are equally as bad in their own way. It's easier to get warm than it is to get cool in 90 degree weather with severe humidity. It may be worse for the NE just due to the fact that many have never experienced hurricanes or storms like this in this part of the country. The fact that people are unprepared in terms of how to deal physically and emotionally with this type of thing would be much worse. I've seen people having panic attacks and crying over this.. My FL friends and family are keeping tabs making jokes about how it's just another trip around the block, we've been there done that. But it's like throwing a cat into a bath tub of water and a fish into a litterbox I suppose. If you've never experienced it of course you'll freak out.

Oh absolutely, I agree with everything you said! It's unfortunately it hit an area that isn't used to this type of thing, unfortunately causing mass confusion and chaos. I do hope everyone is prepared and ready for it. I don't wish ill upon anyone. I hope that many are trying to relax and take it calmly, I see way too many people in this area going nuts freaking out about it. I am at least experienced in these types of storms and the general consequences of them, so I feel ready and able to adapt, as much as it will suck without power and such. I hope everyone has a safe experience with it.

Oh absolutely, I agree with everything you said! It's unfortunately it hit an area that isn't used to this type of thing, unfortunately causing mass confusion and chaos. I do hope everyone is prepared and ready for it. I don't wish ill upon anyone. I hope that many are trying to relax and take it calmly, I see way too many people in this area going nuts freaking out about it. I am at least experienced in these types of storms and the general consequences of them, so I feel ready and able to adapt, as much as it will suck without power and such. I hope everyone has a safe experience with it.

as someone else asked, what would it be like in southern florida if you got hit with 3, 4, 5 feet of snow in 24 hours? how do you think those people (people like you) would react?

I can't say I agree with that whatsoever. Floridians tend to joke and have a lax attitude about the whole thing since they have done it so many times. We always had "hurricane parties."

I can't say I agree with that whatsoever. Floridians tend to joke and have a lax attitude about the whole thing since they have done it so many times. We always had "hurricane parties."

As a fellow Floridian, I get what they're saying, but it's clear they've entirely dismissed the part about the areas being hit by this storm being MUCH more metropolitan and lacking the infrastructure and building codes we have down here to deal with it.

Our house is virtually a bunker just by meeting minimum Miami-Dade county codes. My family in Maryland aren't quite so fortunate. They are not required to have the reinforced roof, windows, and doors, and they also have basements that flooded with 3+ feet of water after Irene came a few years ago. They also had entire roads washed out by a tropical depression that dumped 2+ feet of water last year. That stuff doesn't happen in Florida very often because of the way our cities are built and maintained.

Most of New England is not built to withstand these storms like we are here in Florida. They don't have the drainage canals in place to handle large-scale flooding from a large storm surge as well. It's just a fact. These people are going to be in much worse shape than your or I would be after this thing blows by.

Personally, I think it's in very poor taste to make fun of people for preparing for a storm like this, and it's irritating to me that a lot of my fellow Floridians feel like this is an appropriate response to make when people are going to lose their homes, lives, and everything they own.

I can't say I agree with that whatsoever. Floridians tend to joke and have a lax attitude about the whole thing since they have done it so many times. We always had "hurricane parties."

As a fellow Floridian, I get what they're saying, but it's clear they've entirely dismissed the part about the areas being hit by this storm being MUCH more metropolitan and lacking the infrastructure and building codes we have down here to deal with it.

Our house is virtually a bunker just by meeting minimum Miami-Dade county codes. My family in Maryland aren't quite so fortunate. They are not required to have the reinforced roof, windows, and doors, and they also have basements that flooded with 3+ feet of water after Irene came a few years ago. They also had entire roads washed out by a tropical depression that dumped 2+ feet of water last year. That stuff doesn't happen in Florida very often because of the way our cities are built and maintained.

Most of New England is not built to withstand these storms like we are here in Florida. They don't have the drainage canals in place to handle large-scale flooding from a large storm surge as well. It's just a fact. These people are going to be in much worse shape than your or I would be after this thing blows by.

Personally, I think it's in very poor taste to make fun of people for preparing for a storm like this, and it's irritating to me that a lot of my fellow Floridians feel like this is an appropriate response to make when people are going to lose their homes, lives, and everything they own.

Sigh. I thought we were passed this. Not once did I make fun of anyone body, and if anyone felt that I did do that I apologized for how it may have come off.