Sandy is coming!!!!

Royd, not sure how close you are to London, Ontario where my son lives. And really hope everyone stays safe!!!!

When we lived on the coast on Florida and hurricanes were on the way and we know power outtages were a certainty...we made sure we had plenty of drinking water stored, any prescriptions filled early, full tank of gas in the car, batteries for the flashlights, boarded up our windows, lots of canned foods and of course since I'm a coffee addict, put put on lots of coffee pots and put it in containers to freeze...lots of ice in every cooler, and filled the bathtub in case the water stoppped and we could use that to flush toilets.

Had backpacks with change of clothes and lots of bagged dog food...didn't have any livestock then...can only imagine the extra preparation for people with livestock.

Stay safe everyone!!!!!
 
Hard to tell bonbean as it keeps changing but currently its going to miss London and just to the right hand side of Niagara Falls (thats us). Current path - cat 1 storm 75mph winds as it comes ashore somewhere south of New York poss Pennsylvania then plough through PA and NY states up between Buffalo and Rochester and into us - winds will only be 45mph but torrential rain. No doubt the predicted path will change again.
Who else is in its path ????
 
We're supposed to be hit hard tomorrow afternoon/evening.

Today at work we took everything down and put it all away so it won't blow away in the wind. While I was at work, my family did that here at our house and my mom got the roof and a half wall screwed on my sheep shack. (Thanks, mom :bow) I just went out and put my sheep in their shelter because it's already raining, but they were laying out in the rain with their ears drooping. So I took 5 lbs of hay and put it in their shelter for them and then I got the grain bucket with a handful of grain to bring them in there. They decided it was drier in there and even though only one sheep is eating the hay, they're all staying in :D

I'm glad we got the roof secured. Even though it's heavy sheets of plywood, we've had wind strong enough to take the plywood off :rolleyes: ...so I could only imagine what this "Frankenstorm" would've done to it.

I'm so NOT looking forward to the next couple of days... :/
 
Thoughts are with you all as this storm approaches. Please keep us all posted as I know all of us will be worried and wondering. God bless.
 
As of this morning we have light winds (15 miles per hour) and steady sprinkles. Many schools are cancelled for the next two days.
We cleaned gutters yesterday,
put our generator out and made a little house around it with plywood, ran all our extension cords for the refrigerator and well pump, ect...
Fed the goats extra the last two days, their bellies are full of hay, They had been on pasture for the most part.
barn is closed up tight.(except one small door for the goats to go in and out of). Although not all goats are in the barn, some are in the pastures and are staying in calf huts bedded with straw.
got extra groceries
cleaned in the house and got most the laundry done, so if we are without power for several days we will have clean clothes. :D

Made a big pot of speghetti and several batches of popcorn to munch on over the next couple of days. We will beable to hook our microwave up to the generator.

I will have anywhere between 3 and 6 or 7 kids here to feed and tend to, Not goats, Children. 3 dogs, 3 cats, 3 rabbits, and 30 some goats. Keeping them fed and warm will be a job in high winds and heavy rain.

We did some work on the rabbit hutch, It sits outside and there were a couple areas that were needing some repairs.

So far pretty uneventful for us. I am not complaining.

praying for everyone on the coast and inland who will be in the path.
 
We have been updated from 2 to 4" of rain to 5" to 10" of rain, they increased our wind speads slightly and also issued a winter storm advisory and Blizzard warning for the valley and our county.
This should be lots of fun.

Hope everyone is staying safe.
 
Everyone please be safe and take care of yourselves and your animals. Please check in so everyone knows you are all ok. You are all in my prayers.
 
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