"Monster" Storm hitting the U.S. North East late monday evening

[Xwetie]

Thanks for the concern guys. I honestly don't know who is on here that was still around when I was a regular, but it's actually pretty bad. Me personally, we're getting hit with some crazy wind and a lot of rain. Parts of my roof have been flying off throughout the day and the storm is technically supposed to start around 8pm local time, 2 hours from now. I'm usually carefree about ominous weather forecasts cause I ALWAYS believe the weather professionals are clueless but to be honest, it's starting to look bad. Just from looking outside of my windows, trees and branches are everywhere but thank God we're not in a flood zone. News footage of the rest of the other parts of New Jersey/New York look catastrophic and the hurricane hasn't even started.

The entire city of New York is shut down and I don't think I've ever been alive to see that.

Man I love reading about these stuff! Keep us updated if you want and are able to!
Of course I don't want anything to happend to you or anyone in New York but I it's pretty cool to se what the weather can do to us! It's intreassting though'. Hold on tight because it will be windy!
Hope y'all be fine!

Regards, Xwetie

[C-Lo]

Aside from the weather, right now this is the most trending story caused by the hurricane:

Crane dangles from NYC high-rise, clearing streets - Yahoo! News

If you've ever been to New York City, you know how packed and lively it is. This is what it's looked like since last night:

Flickr: Empty New York | Photo Gallery - Yahoo! News

[Spicoli]

I've sat in cat.1's to cat.5's and let me tell you...the numbers can be very misleading. If you've never had to prepare for landfall and more so aftermath it's just as bad as it gets. The surge on this one looks substantial and anytime they start throwing around 'once in a lifetime', yeh. Been there. Most recently we were hit with a 1 and it kicked the shit outta us as it stalled and spun. Fortunately this one has a good clip and scattered and is projected to turn, hopefully wide and not sudden backspin. Its at this stage I'd tell friends to turn off the tv if power is still up. The anticipation and unknown literally leaves you mentally drained. If your in the shit...stay safe and hunker down if evac is not called. Oh and beer.

[Andre]

Good luck. We saw on the news all the supermarket shelves were stripped bare too.

[Ghost]

Good luck. We saw on the news all the supermarket shelves were stripped bare too.

That's normal, better question is "Will the supermarket be there later".

[Mars_ax]

At least 18 dead, millions without power in Sandy's aftermath:

At least 18 dead, millions without power in Sandy's aftermath | Fox News

[El Kabong]

The issues NYC/New Jersey etc are having are due to the population density, the fact that NYC is surrounded by water (the river exacerbates things), and the various tunnels & subways. It will be costly to fix, but things could have been MUCH worse....imagine if a Hurricane takes that track in August when the water is at it's warmest. Then we're talking anywhere from a cat 2 to a cat 4 and those would really hammer New York not to mention any tornadoes that could spin off a storm of that strength.