Bracing for Sandy

For the last few days, the news casters having been preparing us for Hurricane Sandy.  I left work early today to pick up mom so she could watch Cody tomorrow while Ken and I go to a wedding.  Before picking her up, I dropped off our bathroom window glass panel that broke in a prior wind storm.  I had to get the glass fixed before the storm came it.  They say hurricane Sandy is on her way up the east coast right now.  Of course we shouldn't see her till Sunday, Monday or Tuesday.  Everything is up in the air.  So after I dropped off the glass I thought I should run by Costco to get some gas.  Costco was a complete mad house.  The gas lines were CRAZY!  And the parking lot was packed.  Humm.....ok, I'll just get gas on my way to Winchester.  So I drove up Route 7 to Leesburg. I thought, I'll just swing by the Costco there, and grab some gas.  LINES of CARS everywhere?  What?  Why aren't these people at work?  It's 1:45pm.  I'm starting to see a pattern here.  And I'm starting to wonder if this storm is really going to be legit.  I thought maybe the newscasters were crying wolf.  So luckily I grabbed gas across the street.  Thought, I better fill my tank.  You never know.  If we do have a disaster they could close the gas stations down or hike up the prices sky high.  Luckily I got to Winchester with no issues, although there was more cars on the road than I expected.  I grabbed mom and headed right back to the window shop.  It was about 4:15pm when I got there and they had my window ready.  As I drove by Costco again, the line of cars extended on to the main road just to get gas.  This is just CRAZY!   It's just so weird to see everyone act this way for rain but then again, it's apparently the "Perfect Storm" aka Frankenstorm.  So in time, we'll see how all this turns out.  As of now, we're all home, we're all safe, there's no rain yet.  Just getting ready for Sandy.