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[rivka]

Apparently, Hurricane Isabel - now 1mph short of being a Cat 5 storm - is expected to make landfall somewhere on the East Coast, between North Carolina and New Jersey. My local weather report, however, is remarkably bland.

Some houses in Baltimore have big wooden shutters that cover the windows. I've always thought of that as a lovely, quaint decorative touch, but now I'm starting to consider that there might be other uses. We're inland, so you wouldn't think there would be all that much of an issue, but Washington DC is even further inland, and

In Washington, D.C., emergency officials were working on acquiring additional sandbags, and planned to begin a public education campaign and meet with other department and critical services leaders Monday.

"Then we're going to pray," said Peter LaPorte, director of the Emergency Management Agency.

I poked around a little online, looking for hurricane advice, but I didn't care much for what I found. Sure, we'll go out and buy some bottled water, extra batteries, bagged ice, and food that doesn't need cooking - but surely we're not going to need to shut off all our utilities and crouch on the floor in an inside room with our heads covered. Not in Baltimore.

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Because I was trained as an engineer long ago...

[rmjwell.livejournal.com]

I recommend increasing your stash of comestibles to a week's duration. When I was at Purdue for an improbable winter storm (it closed down interstates for two days), the recovery period included depleted supplies at the grocery stores for 3 days pas the worst of the weather.

Re: Because I was trained as an engineer long ago...

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember that from the 2+ feet of snow we got this winter. For a day or two after the streets were all cleared, the local supermarket looked like something out of Eastern Europe - long empty shelves with just a few brands of a few things stocked.