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Some good news: My friend from Newfoundland was unscathed by the storm. He's in Burin and they only got some high winds.
Looks like power is going to be out untill Oct 3. This link will give you an idea of the extent of the outages in our area.
Yeah I can't even begin to imagine. We'd had some storms here, but I wouldn't even call them bad. Just a lot of rain and wind, sometimes minor damage from the bigger ones, but they last like half an hour at very most. Hurricanes can go on for hours while leaving a path of destruction. I can recall one fairly bad storm many years ago that did cause quite a lot of damage but even that does not compare to a hurricane. The damage was mostly trees and hydro poles and not houses. Hurricanes will level houses completely. I'd really hate to go through one.
I've lived on/near the Atlantic coast my entire life and I've only very rarely experienced what they're going to see in Tampa this time around.
Sandy was extremely bad but was "only" a tropical storm... the last strong hurricane I can recall before that was Gloria (cat 3 when she hit Long Island NY) and that was nearly 40 years ago!
Experts have been warning about the dangers of over-developing in coastal areas particularly in Florida for many years. In fact I can recall reading about it in Popular Science as a kid.