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Governor Christie declared that all barrier islands in New Jersey as well as Atlantic City are supposed to be evacuated by 4:00 PM today. My wife and I went down Friday night to close up our shore house (Long Beach Island) for the season and prep for Sandy. I don't think we are going to be anywhere near as lucky with Sandy as we were with Irene. We put all of the furniture on the first floor up on tables and benches in case the water gets into the house, but if the water level is on the high side of the 4 - 8 feet storm surge they are predicting, it won't matter. It'll all be trash anyway. Last model I saw had landfall on Monday almost directly over us. It is making me sick to my stomach all of the money we've invested in upgrading the house is now going to be like throwing it out the window. We were actually quite surprised at how little people were preparing for this storm. Only one place we saw was doing any boarding of windows, although the folks at one of the candy shops said they put a bunch of their candy on the second floor. For everyone else it was as if it was any other October weekend! Weird. I guess they weren't listening to the news!

And because this storm is cutting such a wide swath, we have identical issues with our house up north. I'm too old to deal with all this shit! : (