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Folks where I live are making trips to the grocery store, trying to get gas for generators, etc, cleaning up excess items in the yard and on porches. My husband got gas today for the generator and got it ready. He wanted to make sure it would run. The local Lowe's store is getting another shipment of generators tomorrow. We have talked about trying to get a whole house generator installed. It would be expensive, but really nice when we needed it. Our generator is large enough to run the wall switches and ceiling fans. So we can keep the refrigerator and freezer going. We use small appliances for cooking if we have to. Most of the time, our power comes back pretty quick, but in a hurricane it can be slow. During Irene, it really took awhile as there were lots of trees, etc, that had to be cleaned up. Four or five days with no power or hot water is rough. But our house is where there hasn't been flooding in over a hundred years. It floods in every direction up and down the road, in front and in back, but we are high and dry.
So folks o the eastern seaboard of the US are really watching this hurricane now.
So folks o the eastern seaboard of the US are really watching this hurricane now.