Yes, Michigan too will skip Sandy, but I can believe that Sandy will stall over New England and dump one foot of rain. For about 36 hours starting yesterday we had a wind going west, presumably pushing Sandy into its slow motion track inland. Walking home from work 4 hrs ago the wind (now about 40 mph) had rotated and was from the NE, but now it is N or NNW. Thanks goodness the World Series ended yesterday! With a high 20 wind chill and rain/snow, this is no night for baseball.

I have not been on this forum much the last few days as I have been mesmerized by this storm from very beginning. It first appeared in the GFS model, then the Euro Model picked up up, at which time the GFS dropped it, and took Sandy out to see. That was where things remained for about a week, at which point both weather models came into agreement, and the picture was always some version of horrendous after that. I have every compassion for all of you that have lots trees, had wild areas distroyed, trees striped to trunks, etc. We had similar effects during our Jan 2009 ice storm, and everything is STILL recovering. Sandy turned out to be even worse than forecast, and that is saying something. But long term, it will be good for the forest, as it will weed out the weaker trees, and it will give more room for the remaining to expand, and it will allow new colonization, and in more mature forest, understory trees that have been waiting their turn will burst forth to fill the void over the coming year. Dogwoods will get more light, and flower more prolifically, same with serviceberry, and many other species especially wildflowers. Maybe the native pollinators can catch a break, and you will be rewarded with butterflies. The opening of the canopy will also help to control dogwood anthracnose, by drying the foliage so that the fungus can't take hold, giving much needed relief to those species in the NE. Point of all this being that while this is a horrible event, so good will actually come from it, and all of you can set yourself in the right mindset to see these things to make it all more tolerable. Have a prepared mind to appreciate those positives. Arktrees

Yeah just got power...we got it full force and 100mph winds were on us for 10 hrs straight and didn't let up.Worse in some way's than Beaulah because she came and went this one stayed.anyway we were lucky 1/4 of my shingles are off but only 2 minor roof leaks in one room and 4 trees down in my yard....south of us people still have 3 ft of water inside their houses,trees down and no power all over town.But we are dry and safe and sound so thanks for all your prayers all we have is the inconvience of the clean up.We've been serving coffee etc to our neighbors who still don't have power.We're fine...couldn't wait to get back to you all...Annie

They lived there during a period of low hurricane activity, is all. People used to think a lot of places in FL, like where I live, were out of the usual path of hurricanes. In fact, there was a period of relatively low activity for storms coming to FL between that began about 1950 and lasted half a century. Yes, there were storms and bad ones (Andrew!), but not nearly as many as is usual. Irma passed directly over Zephyrhills, but the storm had been over land for a while because it came up from Naples and luckily it had weakened very much even before landfall, so their damage was minimal, mostly flooding. Had it come in at top strength to make landfall in the Tampa bay area, the story would have been very different. But no place in FL is hurricane-free. People have learned that by sad experience during the past 20 years, if they didn't understand it before then. If you're familiar with Zephyrhills, I would suggest you might want to watch this, which is what is used for training emergency response folks in the Tampa bay area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jFGEzYam40 Look, for instance, at the map of hospital damage from Phoenix. Also, here is a map showing all the hurricanes that formed in the month of Sept and affected the US: Can you even see FL at all on that map? So yeah, your suspicions are correct. ETA Here's a quicker way to see hurricane activity in that area than the long video posted above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U8Huqbxxus Start at 0:44 and you can see historical tracks moving over the area.