Go Away Sandy (10-29-12)

We only did the "Rain Rain Go Away Come Again another day" part. Honestly, in Texas when you are a child, some rain was fine, it was the 3rd or 4th day that became a problem! No, I'm not, but I know folks who are, a friend's daughter is in NYC going to college so that's kind of worrisome.

The saddest part of this storm is the alarming number of deaths related to the storm. It's pouring buckets out there right now, splattering my back window. I can see it dripping down. The wind is so bad that I had to pull down the gazebo just after it got dark a few hours ago. I just read the sad news about our first casualty in the Toronto area, deaths up here related to storms are pretty rare. But from what I read, the woman was walking down a street and was hit by a business sign and it killed her. Someone rudely commented that she was stupid for being out there, but it's quite possible that she was leaving work when this incident occurred. We still have power, but it may not last with all this wind. We'll see what happens though. I do pray for everyone affected by this storm, we all need to stay safe in this.

I have a friend who lives in New York. He doesn't have to go to work because of the hurricane Sandy. And the students don't have to go to school. Besides, according to the news, it seems the subway in New York is not available, too. The stock market will stop dealing today. It seems to be a terrible and serious hurricane this time. My friend bought foods to prepare for the hurricane Sandy. He just hope that the water and electricity will supply well. I hope the hurricane Sandy will not bring a lot of troubles to New York people.

Yes, I recall the Rain Rain Go Away song. I live near the other coast so I am fortunate. I have been listening to HLN news all morning. It's 6a. here so it's about 8a on the eastern coast. I don't envy those people and can hardly believe the massive problems. 13,000 flights are cancelled, almost 7 million people without power, 13 states affected, and babies being evacuated from two NY hospitals due to outages.

I have several close friends in New York, so far they have winds and rain. Hope it doesnt get any worse anywhere there.

My great aunt has evacuated the Jersey Shore and I know know an idiot who plans on riding it out who lives there as well. I'm fortunate to not live in the area anymore times like this. I before the storm was anywhere near its peak I had family complaining about loss of power and massive floods. I'll have to turn on the news and see whats going on now. I told my mother that if anyone gets flooded out and wants to fly out and see me I have a spare room. It probably will not come to that but you'll never know. When Irene hit I knew a few people who lost their homes and Sandy is a much bigger storm.

I remember the nursery rhyme. I am afraid that it will not help in this case. People should listen to public officials and get out, but now it is too late for many of them. To the people inland get ready and get extra food and supplies now.

I remember the nursery rhyme. As far as I know our part of the country is not even getting any extra rain, but we would take some if offered. I wonder if it would do any good. I guess not. I have heard it may even have an effect on the election.

You mentioning nursery rhymes reminds me how people say even those are for children, some of them have such dark origins. Like 'ring around the roses, pocket full of posies, ashes ashes, we all fall down' is from the days of the Bubonic Plague.

hi SomeCowgirl I am in su ny too wa rm southern California and as my tablemate said at lunch we are so lucky here no storm at all. I am really concerned for fellow mylotters living in the huge path of that storm.'I have not heard more news yet today so am really anxious. I have no television so I depemd on what I can get from my computer here. this does not seem to be affecting our weather here at all.

I do recall that nursery rhyme, I remember saying it a lot when I was a little kid. I don't live in that area but I do live near Chicago and they say that the storm could even cause large waves in Lake Michigan, but other than that we should not feel a lot from it here. We actually had a pretty nice day for October here. I do have a brother in North Carolina though and I wonder if it is impacting him. He doesn't live by the Ocean or anything, I think he is about 4 hours away, but I imagine they are at least getting rain or wind there. I pray the storm will pass with no to minimal damage and no loss of life.

Yes there have been some evacuations and the sort of thing like the writing on the doors, etc. So far the worst of it is supposed to be right now here in our state and have had the lights flickering a tiny bit, strong gusts of extreme wind, some rain with it. I guess it will slow down a small amount at 11 p.m. and tomorrow some too. I will find out about the flooding and damages too then. I hope everyone stays safe out there. I'm not too worried about the flooding up here on a hill, but concerned about others in the harm's way of it all in town. We got some extra food and such yesterday so hopefully it will be sufficient til we can get out and go shopping again. Dad's oxegyn deliver was earlier than usual today, I was wondering about if they would bring it at all, and am grateful they did. He has a DR appt on Wednesday though that I am thinking he needs to get to and hope it isn't cancelled. He has been losing to much weight and should have had an apt in June or so already so it's been put off too many times already. I also worry about the poor animals out there who are wild or homeless. Please God protect them as well.