Hope you guys are okay.

[xaq_the_aereon]

Most of my friends live on the eastern US coast, or are visiting there for FurFright...and, apparently, a stupefyingly powerful hurricane is planning on visiting the area as well.

Stay safe, everyone.

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[anher.livejournal.com]

We're mostly just getting wind with a little rain at this point, so it's really not that bad. We did pick up a few extra things just in case we lose power, but I think we'll be fine.

[kjorteo]

If I can escape tomorrow (that is, the BDL-BWI-ABQ flight doesn't get disrupted) then I'll be fine. There is currently some uncertainty on this. Nothing has actually happened yet, but Southwest did send me a "you might be interested in rescheduling your flight just in case" notification. I took them up on it because there was an option with a time that was more convenient for David driving me to the airport anyway, but my new one also falls under that "no problems yet but I don't know about this >_>" warning zone. Actually, all flights Monday and Tuesday do and I really don't want to be stuck here longer than that, so really all I can do is just go for it and hope nothing happens.

[kjorteo]

BWI is a no-go and thus both my flights (BDL to BWI and BWI to ABQ) were cancelled. Plan B is a zillion-hour BDL-LAS-ABQ route, which I have successfully booked and which still claims to be good to go as of this writing (about 12 hours before liftoff, let alone when I need to be up and at the airport and everything--man, I need to go to bed.)

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Connecticut to Vegas? Ick.

Well, hope you (and everybirdy else, of course!) have a safe trip home.

[kjorteo]

Coming at you live from in the airplane (WiFi access, which I can get now that it has reached 10,000 feet.) To be perfectly honest, a projected 4hr 30m flight from CT to NV, only to then turn around and go back to NM with however long that's going to take, does not sound like it's going to be as awesome as the con was. However, as someone who is currently on a plane that has successfully taken off, is in the air, and is GTFOing the New England area as we speak, all I can think is, whew, made it. (Especially because this was one of about eight flights across three entire boards' worth of listed ones that wasn't cancelled.)

Updates to come as this journey continues, but as of this writing, the overall takeaway appears to be "fuzz escaped just in time."

[xaq.livejournal.com]

WOO!! :D

[kjorteo]

So far, so good. Coming at you from the WiFi in the Vegas airport. There were no problems with the CT-NV flight, unless you count the fact that it was actually so early (due to a strong tailwind gee I wonder where that could have come from) that it reached the airport before the previous plane at that gate left, so we had to land and sit in the parked plane for a bit, so we could finally deplane when we were only really early, as opposed to stupidly early.

NV-NM flight is still on time and such as of this writing, and honestly, I see no reason why anything would happen to that one barring the usual day-to-day airport shenanigans. (It's obviously not in the hurricane path anymore, at least.) If I can kill two hours and then get on the flight when it finally leaves (that is, if there are no overbooking or full overhead compartment issues or the like) then I should be home free.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Well, if anything does happen, lemme know; I can't do anything about it, but I can at least recommend some good shows to catch down on the Strip while you're waiting. :b

[kjorteo]

Final update is a bit delayed because the final leg of the flight surprised me by not having WiFi, after I had actually become used to all the others having it. Oops.

I'm home! I am writing this from inside my apartment, on my desktop. Journey over, time for, like, showering and unpacking and stuff.

Best wishes to everyone who is not currently two or more entire regions away from the hurricane. You guys worried about me when I made my escape, and now that I'm free, it's my turn worry about those left behind.

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

SUPER TAILWIND GO!

TOP SPEED!!

[kjorteo]

Fun fact: I actually just tied a harness to Okosan and he ran me home.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

I find that hard to believe on account of the fact that it took you 11 hours to get home rather than 11 seconds. :b

[davidn]

There was a lot of bluster (aha) about a hurricane about a year ago and absolutely nothing happened... but it's a frightening thing, being at the mercy of the weather. I don't think we'll have any damage, as my house is made of brick (and my heart is made of metal), though if driving is dangerous on Monday I may choose to stay around for another day...

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

Nope, nope, sorry, I'm going to have to disprove this.

You may know that I live in the coastal city of New Bedford. Our flood barrier didn't even flinch, but we live in a naturally windy area. We had winds strong enough to completely tear down my neighbor's fence. Several trees fell. Many large branches got caught in other branches and, as I heard, people were actually injured badly or died from being right under them at the wrong time. Huge portions of the city AND its sister town Fairhaven lost power for 24 hours or more. So, my city was actually hit pretty bad by it. I guess Boston and surrounding cities weren't very affected by it?

There was also the 2011 (?) flood. I don't remember very much about it since it was in the middle of my 18-hour-days-from-working-through-college stint, but Rhode Island and southern MA was apparently underwater for a week or two. I wish I was exaggerating, but my classes were canceled for a week and for two (three?) weeks there was pretty much only one road out of Lakeville.

I'm new to this area, having only been here for 5 years, but it looks like southern MA at least gets the brunt of storms around here.

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

Must have been early 2010 actually, I was already graduated by '11.

[davidn]

Yes, I'm sorry - I really was only speaking for myself there. Even though the last hurricane did nothing here, I do remember the news about Springfield and cars being thrown around by the winds...

Good luck and stay safe.

[lupineangel.livejournal.com]

We're currently looking into what the driving conditions are going to be like tomorrow; at the moment, we think we'll be able to get away with just starting earlier and driving slowly and carefully. If the worst comes to the worst, we'll stay an extra day at the hotel, and make the trip when things've cooled off a little.

In other news, I've never seen a hurricane in real life before. This is turning into a trip of firsts. :P

D.F.

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

I'm just super glad Teo got out safely!

I'm on the MA coast, specifically New Bedford, so we're probably going to experience some really awesome winds and I guess we could at worst lose power for a few days. The flood gates have been closed, so we should be okay on that front... if shit really hits the fan, I'm also on a hill and on the second floor :3

We actually experienced a bad storm last year - huge tree branches fell, power was lost for 24+ hours... So I've got the candles and some emergency supplies on hand... and we're at the tail end of our last food purchase so won't lose TOO much if the power goes out. We have gas so we can still cook and get hot water.

Heating thankfully is not a problem. Though we have no heating at this time, we are however used to cold weather and have just ended up stockpiling a metric ton of blankets. We can also use the gas oven, theoretically, for some emergency warmth.

I am a little worried about my birds, but we've got blankets for them too. The temperature is not expected to go below 45. They are also hardy creatures that biologically can stand temperatures below freezing (ASK TEO ABOUT WEATHER IN DESERTS) ...but while they CAN handle it, they are not in a nice big flock that can huddle together for warmth. A sudden temperature fluctuation can endanger a single bird enough to kill them over a long enough time (this is why they say to keep birds away from drafts).

In any case, good luck to the other Easterners. I suspect the storm will not be quite as bad as they say (they tend to peter out pretty quick after hitting land) but the winds are probably going to be quite dangerous.