i'm more worried about rain then the wind where we are. our property backs up to a river, and last year with irene we got about 8 1/2 inches of rain and the water got close enough start getting me a little worried. we live on a 500 year flood plain, which means historically, on average there we be one flood big enough to reach our house every 500 years. hear we are with two major storms in 2 years.

i have some friends in the mountains of eastern west virginia, and they may get up to 2 feet of snow, not really dangerous but up there power outages are a definate and the roads get so blocked with snow, ice, and fallen debris that you are literally trapped.

these are my preparations:

one of these, and i have already started making insane amounts of ice so that i don't have to suffer through the horror of warm beer, and a bottle of this to "steralize" any injuries a might sustain



i also have a bunch of candles, a few good books/magazines, a little portable dvd player that runs on batteries and plenty of easy to prepare food.