I rent in DC (well, just outside of DC). I am almost ashamed to admit that my biggest concern is my camera gear somehow getting damaged by flooding. It's not likely since I am on a hill and most of the valuable stuff is in Pelican cases, but it's on my mind. Talk about a first world problem...

Prolly too late to order WaterBOB... Darn...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/hi/376284011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_hi_1_3_last

@QuickHitRecord In Maryland here, close to DC...and I'm thinking the same thing..."make sure the gear isn't close to the windows, in case the seals can't withstand this "perfect storm".

wow, lot of mideastcoast people here. I'm in harrisonburg, everything's closed for the next two days for the storm, supposed to get real nasty

I just got back from Tappahanock and Deltaville. The water is way up and rising, lots of chop and a couple of boats swamped. The wind was gusty and when I got back to Hanover the rain had increased and the wind was picking up. I have to load fresh batteries and move the video's over to the computer, then back out again.

I'm right over the Queensboro bridge, looking at Manhattan I can't see much of it. Very strong winds and pounding rain. Public transit shut down yesterday at 7:00, lines for the grocery store were Apple-esque and wrapped around the block. I have no previous experience with hurricanes, but just based on what Sandy has done from out at sea, I wouldn't suggest messing around with her once she moseys inland.

A couple of frame grabs of what's coming at you.

Due to expected ice and snow we've canceled work until 12 noon tomorrow. Gonna try and get some 60p of the snowfall once it picks up.

I also live in the metro DC area. Just got off work!

I'm watching the weather updates. A bit scary. Had a scary experience with a typhoon when I was back in the Philippines. This "typhoon" hit my hometown directly and it was the typhoons first landfall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Nina_(1987)

It sounded like a fleet of planes were flying over! Hopefully this is a lot less worse.

Touch down...

NYC is greatly vulnerable to high tides. It was predicted in 1999 from The NYTimes.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/25/opinion/hurricanes-on-the-hudson.html?pagewanted=print&src=pm

When researchers with the National Weather Service, working with the Army Corps, applied the model to New York City they discovered, to their great surprise, that the slope of the sea bed and the shape of the New York Bight, where the coasts of New York and New Jersey meet, could amplify a surge to a depth far greater than if the same surge had occurred elsewhere. The studies showed that a category 4 hurricane moving north-northwest at 40 to 60 miles an hour, and making landfall near Atlantic City -- which would drive the storm's most powerful right flank into Manhattan -- could create a storm surge of nearly 30 feet at the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. The water could rise as rapidly as 17 feet in one hour.

Production of 'Noah' has been halted because of Hurricane Sandy.

Darren Aronofsky has cancelled all filming for the forthcoming movie - which is based on the biblical tale which sees the titular character build a huge ark to save everyone from a forthcoming flood - in New York City while cast members including Russell Crowe, Emma Watson and Sir Anthony Hopkins weather out the violent storm currently tearing up the East Coast of America....

Director Darren is worried about the fate of his two giant purpose-built arks, one inside a Brooklyn sound stage, the other moored in New York's Oyster Bay where flooding and wind gusts of up to 63 mph have been reported.

http://entertainment.stv.tv/showbiz/315809-noah-production-halted-due-to-hurricane-sandy/

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/noahs-ark-hurricane-sandy-leaves-385024