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Emergencies were declared, line crews were summoned, shelters were prepared and command centers opened.
People stockpiled food, bought generators and chain saws, taped windows against the wind’s blast, and prepared to hunker down as Sandy conspired with the jet stream and a nor’easter to deliver several days of misery and destruction to the most populated section of the nation.
The two big weather models that track storms came to a consensus Friday that the storm would turn inland somewhere to the east of the Chesapeake Bay and drench at least eight states as it drives across the Great Lakes into Canada.
It is expected to turn into a blizzard before it gets there, dropping up to a foot of snow.
Rain is expected to spread over much of the region Sunday afternoon as the leading edge of the storm advances toward land.
A slow-moving hurricane will provide more sustained rainfall, resulting in more flooding.
Hundreds of thousands may lose power if the storm lives up to expectations.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...b290-1f8b-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_story_1.html
