Qnape
Contributor
Update from the hurricane zone: The wind is howling at 50 with gusts to 75 here in northern NJ - I am amazed I still have power. Bridges closed, all mass transit systems shut down in NY,. NJ, CT and Deleware. Flooding in Boston. Trees and branches down everywhere, over 1/2 million without power in NJ alone. My daughter is in Rhode Island, and we had to yell at her to get away from the beach after we saw her and her friends cavorting behind a local weather guy on the weather channel. She's back at her college now, and they have had gusts to 90 mph at Narragansett in Rhode Island! There's a crane dangling from the top of a 60+ story skyscraper in NYC. All-time record low pressure for any storm in the northeast USA. The worst is still coming; wind expected to peak around here from 7 pm tp 4 a.m. est. Everyone is hunkering down - this thing is huge. I think the worst damage will not be known until late tomorrow after the high tides coming tonight - there is widespread flooding in coastal areas at low tide! There are people trapped on various barrier islands along NJ and elsewhere; these folks are in real danger. Wish I was in Cozumel!