Is anyone on the East Coast working tonight?

[Maximillion]

Because my dumb ass is. We're required to show up unless the power goes out. I'm not sure what Earl has in store for us. Quite frankly I'm a little scared. But we'll play it by ear. Why do I have to do a graveyard during a hurricane?

Who else is working tonight?

[telecom_goddess]

Didn't realize a hurricane was brewing...should watch the news more. Whereabouts is it going to hit?

[Maximillion]

The Carolinas and Virginia tonight through tomorrow. Then moving north. They don't pay me enough for this shit.

[MoonCat]

This is off the LA Times website:

"A hurricane watch and tropical storm warning are in effect for north of the North Carolina-Virginia border to Cape Henlopen, Del.

A turn toward the north-northeast with an increase in forward speed is expected on Friday, according to the NHC's forecast track. The center of Earl will pass near the Outer Banks of North Carolina Thursday night, and approach southeastern New England Friday night."

Take care, everybody! I think it sucks that they expect you to work. Do you have someplace safe to get into if things get rough?

[Maximillion]

Either the beer cooler or the walk in cooler/freezer. we're the kind of place that literally is open all year long. Even holidays. Unless we lose power. Which I'm sorta counting on. But we have a generator.

[Teskeria]

I've been through a couple hurricanes (I was in Disaster Preparedness Office during Frederick when I was active duty). They're nowhere near as terrifying as tornados. Easier than Nor'easters IMO. At least they are for people who arent complete idiots. So you should be okay.

[Android Kaeli]

Anything that's above a Catagory 2 and there's a small chance the store will close. Earl just decided to churn the waves a little and knock up the breeze a quarter of a notch, he's just too far out to sea to be any problem here in SC.

Well, at least where I live anyways. See that his projected path will just graze by the northern border of North Carolina and hit up the northern East Coast. It's odd to see anything stronger then a weak Cat. 1 go up north, heck where I lived tornado's happen once in a blue moon.

[Seshat]

I've lived through cyclones.

As long as you're not right in the core, and your area isn't going to flood/isn't vulnerable to the strong winds, you should be fine.

If you get winds significantly stronger than the norm for your area, expect tree branches to come down, and debris from people's gardens to be picked up and thrown around - noone ever actually cleans up properly in a before-cyclone cleanup.

Which means, stay inside during the worst of the windstorm, and stay away from glass.

Good luck, and I hope you're not hit with the core of the cyclone.

[Ravenzfire]

Checking in from New Jersey and I'm working until 11. Although looking at the weather maps it doesn't seem like we are really going to get anything as the storm path looks like it's going to go around us after hitting the Carolinas.

[Hyndis]

Hehe, at least you guys don't get earthquakes. You get warning time.

Earthquake? Absolutely no warning. Could be a little one, it could also collapse the entire building. Makes it fun!



I don't bother to get out of bed unless its at least a 6.0.

[Maximillion]

Earl is taking his sweet time. He's still in the Carolinas raising hell and we're getting rain and some wind. Supposedly it's gonna ram us around 8AM or something. I'll be waiting at home by then, playing Lost Odyssey and stuffing my face

[dalesys]

...I don't bother to get out of bed unless its at least a 6.0.

And if it's greater than 6.0 the bed gets out from under you.

Living on top of the Wasatch Fault.

[dragon_wings]

I live in Baltimore and I've already had customers running in to get stuff.
One customer got a bunch of stuff but forgot her wallet so she had to go home and come back. And when she came back she decided against the half gallon of milk.
But yeah, I'll be working tonight.

[mharbourgirl]

I'm in Nova Scotia. Obsessively watching the NOAA satellite feeds about every 10 minutes. It's still a tossup as to whether it's going to hit the western tip of NS squarely or get sucked up the Bay of Fundy and stomp all over NB. Fortunately I'm in central NS, but there's still a major rainfall warning for my area, not to mention tropical storm winds. I have to dismount my bedroom A/C this afternoon and sleeping tonight is going to be misery because it's still hot and humid as Panama up here.

We still haven't gotten over Juan in 2003. That stomped a mudhole in central NS. I was right on the eastern edge of the eye of that one so you can imagine my current mood. I've been sticky and gross for the last two weeks thanks to this brutal heat wave, and I'm looking at a repeat of 2003, where I didn't get a shower for nearly 10 days because our power was out for that long and we're on a well.

I've experienced earthquakes, blizzards and hurricanes now, and I'm not sure which one scares me more. Anyone in the UK got a spare room with A/C? And the patience to listen to a very unhappy Canadian vent about it in language that really can't be printed?

[MoonCat]

I've experienced earthquakes, blizzards and hurricanes now, and I'm not sure which one scares me more.

Blizzards aren't so bad as long as you're not stuck in your car somewhere. At least your house will still be standing when the snow stops falling.