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Things that one cannot find for love nor money here at the moment: bottled water and any batteries in sizes other than AA or AAA. I do have to wonder about people stockpiling gallons of milk though. Sna? I'm failing to see the appeal of having two and a half gallons of rancid milk sitting around if we do end up losing power.

I confess that I wasn't taking the whole hurricane thing particularly seriously until I looked at the tracking maps that show the center of the storm passing, er, relatively close to here Thursday night. (Update: they've shifted it back off to the west as of this morning.) Should be an exciting evening. =) The only thing I'm worried about really is the power; our power will go off if you just look at it wrong, so I'm expecting that it'll disappear at some point. I think tomorrow I'll try to figure out how to waterproof my leaky office, see if anyone in the state has C cells, and try to figure out what we have food-wise that doesn't require refrigeration and isn't too scary to contemplate consuming.

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Maybe I'm just in denial, but I'm not TOO worried - we're far enough inland that I suspect the most to worry about will be tornadoes.

I'm worried about wind damage/tornados and losing electricity (the latter is not at all uncommon here in the best of conditions, so I'll be more surprised if we don't than if we do). Considering how soaked the ground out here is though, flooding is likely to be an issue as well, and I *know* our office is going to get wet. It sounds from the weather statements like the Piedmont is going to get it worse than we are rain-wise.