Apparently the East Coast of the United States is about to get completely wiped off the face of the earth.
This past weekend, Northerners spent time in bodegas and grocery stores getting prepared for the oncoming storm.
Even Kim Kardashian bought a cartload of bottled water. But also, she only bought bottled water. Is that all she needs to survive?
Let us put some things into perspective for you, just in case you think Hurricane Sandy is going to decimate anything: It’s a Category 1 storm. It is one cat. One cat is not really that much to handle. It needs a little bit of attention and some cuddling every now and then, and then it’s good to go.
The worst hurricane to hit Florida in recent history was Hurricane Andrew. This hit our coast in 1992. Andrew was a Category 4 (or 5) storm. That is four or five cats. Do you know how much of a problem five cats can be?
First of all, there will be poop everywhere, no matter what those kitty-litter commercials try to tell you. Imagine trying to share one toilet with five other people; that’s not a pretty situation. Then you have to worry about feeding all of those cats. We’d assume it would take a lot of fuel and energy to keep that many cats going strong.
In Andrew’s case, it cost about $26.5 billion. That’s a lot of catnip. Or fun toys that have feathers on them. Or treats for when they do something in a really cute way. You know, cat stuff.
To be fair, states like New York and New Jersey don’t normally see a storm of this size. They aren’t as well prepared for them as Floridians are taught to be.
Northern cities started to evacuate some residents as the storm approaches. Nearly 80,000 people who live in Delaware and Atlantic City, N.J., were asked to leave their homes.
Sandy will most likely make landfall sometime tonight or early tomorrow morning. Also, this storm has already killed more than 60 people in the Caribbean. A majority of those deaths took place in Haiti, a country still recovering from the last round of strong storms.
While it’s always important to prepare ourselves for an impending emergency situation, we should definitely remember that we are not the only ones affected. However, Sandy has the potential to collide with a polar front coming down from the Arctic. That’s why some people are calling that combination of storms a “Frankenstorm.” It’s one-part hurricane plus one-part Arctic front plus one-part full moon. That means it’s an unusual situation; crazy winds and rains mixed with high tides do not make a safe week. “Frankenstorm” is also happening on the week of Halloween, which is super spooky.
Did you hear about the earthquakes and tsunami warnings over on the West Coast this weekend? Basically, we’re starting to see that the world really will end in 2012.
Let’s make it a good last few months, folks.
