Sitting here in Milford Delaware not too far from the mouth of the Delaware Bay pretty close to where Sandy is going to make land fall.
How is it that they can name a potentially dangerous weather pattern with such a harmless sounding name?
Wish us luck guys.
We prepared by washing all the clothes in the house once they started reporting that we could be out of power for a week or more. I bought a utility pump on amazon and I thought it wasn't going to come in time so I bought another one at Home Depot. I bought double A batteries and a hose for the utility pump.
We lost power for 15 hours. My neighbor let us plug into his nice generator for three hours. I had to charge our phone because the FIOS battery was dead after eight hours of non-use, I plugged in the fridge, and I charged my cell phone. My wife was impressed that I have some Cree flashlights that I bought off of ebay which make the house like night and day. They use 18650 lithium batteries so I also bought some battery to USB chargers for the cell phones.
My son didn't have school for four days.
There is a tree on a house on my street. I called the police and they tried to tell me to tell the owner and I told them the township is the owner. Then they wanted to know my name.
Since this storm, I thought about what I need for the next storm. I saw that a 93 year old resident died because of hypothermia and so I started looking on Amazon for 10 degree sleeping bags and thermal blankets.
I need to think about a generator, an extention cord with multiple outlets, another wet dry vac.
My grandmother thought that all you need are some long matches, a gas stove and a lantern flashlight with two 6 volt batteries. She believed that stores try to make money off of consumers and that two lantern batteries are all you need. She is right to an extent but you have to think about heat and flooding.
A co-worker wanted to buy a flashlight but couldn't find any in the stores. I told him to try back in a month because it will take some of the stores that long to restock.
