Delaware Weather Forecast

[cracker]

The restaurant on the point (Bayside BBQ) is closing for the seson Sat and will have everything 1/2price. Any one want to get drunk at half price.

Lol, I'm heading down to my Mom's tonight after work. Let's get plowed and race around in golf carts!

[longnecker]

Lol, I'm heading down to my Mom's tonight after work. Let's get plowed and race around in golf carts!

Love to meet you if you get to Long Neck.I'll be getting off work at 8am. If you get to the point ask the store manager if his Dad is up yet. Won't be before 6.

[max1]

Back from Middletown walmart, plenty of everything there except people :-)

[hockey]

Well they canceled the I-95 closure... cranes and wind don't get on well.

So.... I-95 is open for this weekend.

Now.... the big question..... do I go grocery shopping? Fridays are my normal shopping but I didn't get home until late. This means I go some time today and face crowds and empty shelves or it's take away and canned foods for meals.

Anyone been to the stores today? Is anything left?

[hockey]

Back from Middletown walmart, plenty of everything there except people :-)

Good timing but Middletown is farther than I wanted to venture.

[Jessica]

Hockey- hubby was at the store earlier this morning and everything was okay. Busy, but stocked.

We've got water, canned goods, snacks, beer, candles, and batteries. Put all the deck furniture in the shed, secured the kids playhouses, cleaned out the gutters, bought beer. Last loads of laundry in now and I'm charging up everything that can be charged. We don't have a generator, but in the six years I've lived here we've only lost power during a storm one time. I know this is a different kind of storm, but we'll have to make due if the power craps out.

I'm a little surprised we don't have a state of emergency yet since all the neighboring states do. As of 20 minutes ago, projected landfall was around Fenwick Island. If this thing does what they're saying it's going to do, I think it makes more sense to let people know that schools are closed and certain restrictions or evacuations are in place before we start losing power.

[terri]

I know Charter is already closed - they made the announcement on Friday.

We can hold off on the driving restrictions until 3:00 am Monday morning, though. I feel better knowing Wawa is still a legal option.

[terri]

Red Clay closed Monday and Tuesday. Just got the call.

[Kid Lester]

Brandywine also closed Monday and Tuesday. No call on Christina yet.

Also, there is not a D battery on the shelf in NCCo

[Jessica]

Christina is closed Monday and Tuesday as well.

Gas gouging is in full effect - the first station we stopped at was sold out of regular and plus at $3.45. The next had it - for $3.52. Luckily we only needed less than a quarter tank. Better safe than sorry.

[hockey]

I was wondering the same thing. Our state of emergency has levels but they always seem to issue it when they truly expect all non essential businesses to close and all non essential people to stay home except emergencies.

Perhaps NJ, DC, MD, PA, NY use the levels and allow for people to travel?

[Josef]

Christina is closed Monday and Tuesday as well.

Gas gouging is in full effect - the first station we stopped at was sold out of regular and plus at $3.45. The next had it - for $3.52. Luckily we only needed less than a quarter tank. Better safe than sorry.

I'm not sure I would call that gouging. It just sounds like all the people bought all the gas at the cheapest station in the area. Gouging would be if that station decided to raise their price of gas to $3.99/gallon to take advantage of everyone.

[Tracy]

Colonial is closed on Monday and Tuesday too....

Believe it or not, I didn't get the kids their Halloween costumes yet, so we ventured out to the Middletown Walmart today....it really wasn't that bad and they were fully stocked.

[Jessica]

I worded my statement incorrectly - the station I mentioned at $3.52 was at $3.45 the evening before. Not exactly gouging, and for all I know they could have been at $3.52 before the station down the street ran out. It just seemed a little weird is all...

[longnecker]

I was wondering the same thing. Our state of emergency has levels but they always seem to issue it when they truly expect all non essential businesses to close and all non essential people to stay home except emergencies.

Perhaps NJ, DC, MD, PA, NY use the levels and allow for people to travel?

We of course have been watching the Weather Channel constantly. Saturday several area states had declared emergencies and Delaware had not. When I mentioned this at work one of the other employees pointed out Rehoboth would lose too much money if they called it before the end of the Saturday Sea Witch activities. She was right Markel called it after the parade.

[Tracy]

Well just got the call...no work for me tomorrow.

[Curly]

Damn! Only have five D batteries for the radio and I need six......"Honey? Give it up, I only need to borrow one".....

[cracker]

Love to meet you if you get to Long Neck.

Yeah, we've gotta meet up at some point. Unfortunately I had to make sure my Mom was all squared away and then high tail it back up north.

[max1]

ok, truck is gassed, got chain, cant hook, saws and rope.....camera, what could go wrong. Im gonna head out at daybreak to look fo' damage (plus if I spend one more goddamn minute cleaning or cooking im gonna freak, men aint made for this shit.

[longnecker]

Nor’easter May Be Next for New England


As steps toward recovery slowly progress in the wake of Sandy, another storm may soon be hitting the East Coast in time for Election Day.
The National Weather Service’s Prediction Center issued a warning for a possible nor’easter, which may hit the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions as early as next Tuesday.
While the storm is not anticipated to be as destructive as Sandy, the prediction center anticipated the storm will “cause light to moderate precipitation around that region of the country” and “produce impacts much less extreme.”
The Washington Post reports that the European Centre Medium Range Forecast (EURO) model, which tracked Sandy over a week before it hit, shows a simulation of the storm that will bring moderate rains and gusty winds in many of the same areas ravaged by the superstorm.
The impending storm may possibly delay the recuperation efforts of both New York and New Jersey.
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