Northeasterners: What say you of this Mother of all Storms approaching?

We've just hit the beginning of the peak of the storm. It's expected to stay like this for the next 6-8 hours. We're getting gusts of 60mph, and it's really scary!

I feel for everyone south of me; they're getting much worse than here. Stay safe and good luck!
 
So Carol's office closed, the School I work at closed, and all have have so far is some rain that is slightly heavy at times. If we get hit at all it will be tonight into tomorrow; I wonder what they'll do then. In the meantime I lost 6 hours pay due to overhype.

I realize this is a bad storm, but we are in Western Massachusetts, far from the coast. They are just in panic mode here, reacting without thinking.
 
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just went out and got a cuppa tea. the coffee shop is packed. at present, it's not raining hard, but it is raining sideways.
 
Still just cold rain here. One of our offices in the south eastern part of the state says that they've had a snow/sleet mix going for most of the day, but the accumulation isn't expected until tonight into tomorrow.

I still don't think we'll get much in the way of snow in the north western part of the state (where we live).
 
so i'm watching the Weather Channel and they're saying that it's not really a hurricane anymore, but it's wrapped up in another noreaster and there's still high tides. so it's still going to be bad, but it's not going to be cataclysmic. i'm not expecting to go to work tomorrow. there's still going to be 9 foot swells and the MTA likely won't be able to get going until tomorrow night at the earliest.

kind of amazed the tree in front of my house hasn't eaten it thought. it still has all of it's leaves and its taking something like 60mph winds. maybe higher.
 
...and my data center just lost power so I shut the remaining systems down. I'm off the clock at 5:embarrassed:1. How's that for timing?
 
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Help!I'maRock! said:
so i'm watching the Weather Channel and they're saying that it's not really a hurricane anymore, but it's wrapped up in another noreaster and there's still high tides. so it's still going to be bad, but it's not going to be cataclysmic. i'm not expecting to go to work tomorrow. there's still going to be 9 foot swells and the MTA likely won't be able to get going until tomorrow night at the earliest.

kind of amazed the tree in front of my house hasn't eaten it thought. it still has all of it's leaves and its taking something like 60mph winds. maybe higher.
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If the MTA isn't running then I'm staying home again Tuesday. I wasn't really set up for working at home until a couple of weeks ago. How serendipitous.
 
Sitting in my lobby right now is a family from New Jersey who just moved here a month or so ago. They're kinda please with the timing :embarrassed:
 
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If the MTA isn't running then I'm staying home again Tuesday. I wasn't really set up for working at home until a couple of weeks ago. How serendipitous.
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that's my stance. there's no reason for me to even think about doing my job, as a business developer, if nobody else is actually going to be at work. you want to charge me a personal day, go ahead.
 
I work from home all the time. So, I need a power outage or an Internet outage to not work.
It's kind of a catch 22.

Even then, there are things I can do as long as the battery in my laptop lasts.

.....Crap.
 
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Don't fall for the fake photos. That crane one is apparently real, and real scary!

Stay safe people! When I was at the bank I saw a roll of clips on the news of stupid stuff the weather news folks people are doing. Getting caught in waves and stuff. Those guys should go home, or report from some place where a fireman or other emergency worker doesn't have to waste time and risk rescuing their asses.

All the best to you fretters out there. I hope it ends up being more hype than real damage.
 
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