As I type this on my dining room table, we have candles burning. The power is still on, but it has been flickering on and off for hours. It is highly likely that we will lose power, which means we will lose Internet, which means this may be the last post from me for awhile. It's raining and the wind is whipping, but it's not that bad. Yet. Apparently, the worst is yet to come. And what of our Marist XC family members down in Disney? No news is good news. From all accounts, they are having a blast down there. Most importantly, they are SAFE and sound down there.
When will they be home? GOOD QUESTION. Administrators at Marist are working hard on a solution on how to get them back to us in Poughkeepsie. Flying back to the Northeast will be a complicated process, to say the least. Hundreds of flights have been canceled. Our group is a party of 26 -- not exactly the easiest to reschedule. There exists the possibility that our group may be bussed back north. No cancellations to worry about there, just mind-numbing hours along the eastern seaboard. But before that decision is made, we all want to make sure that the path north is safe. In order to insure that, we will have to see how this massive storm plays out over the next 12 hours or so. No sense getting them on the road if the mid-Atlantic states are still paralyzed by this storm.
From a weather geek's standpoint, this storm is an absolute dream. The barometric pressure readings are at historic lows -- meteorologists and weather geeks alike are gawking at the 940 millibar reading! But not to make light of this serious situation. The storm surge is such that we could have epic flooding of the Hudson River as far north as here in Poughkeepsie. The combination of this perfect storm, high tides and a full moon (you can't make this stuff up) will make for some serious over-the-bankful flooding.
Anyway, we'll see how it goes. Better press send now before the power goes out.
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