It’s not just the hurricane. When it comes ashore it will run right into a cold front. Going in the opposite direction.
The warm, water filled air of Sandy will condense and dump all of that water.
And because they are moving in opposite directions, the storm will simply stall. And the high pressure system over Newfoundland will just hold it all in place.
The damage will come from the initial wind, and then two or three days of hard rain.
I’m watching my livestock. They tend to bunch together and hang near the barns before something bad comes through. They got “bunchy” this evening and they are not moving far from the barns. So I take precautions.
Plus, I live in the Baltimore/Washington corridor and our power goes out if a bird so much as spits on the ground. So we have done what we can to prepare. It’s in God’s hands now.