How severe do you think "Sandy" will have when her devastation potential has subsided?

My hopes are that the ones predicting will be wrong as they often are; however, if Sandy and this winter storm meet, I can understand why predictions are so very frightening. Having cold hit warm in any weather situation is not good as it causes tornadoes inland. In fact, many of the tornadoes we have in my area are from this occurrence. In as much, I fear there may be many tornadoes spawning inland from the mixing of the two air flows.

The storm surge along the East coast is a nightmare for some largely populated areas. I fear the flooding will forever change coastlines with this anticipated surge. Where they once had beaches, they may find that the beach is no more. If the water is as wild as it can get in windy conditions, we will see many structures destroyed and perhaps, vanished. This will not merely be a flood! This will be waters which are churning, thrashing and relentlessly removing soil from beneath the many structures on the coast. Buildings may be declared unsafe as many will be shifted and off of their foundations. Other structures will be annihilated by objects in this wind driven water. It would be as though someone took huge battering objects and kept pounding away until destruction occurs. Wind and water are the two major causes for erosion and this system will utilize both in many forms. Snow, rain, wind, tornadoes, floods, wave action against the beaches and so forth.

The wind will be the driving force which will cause much erosion and harm to structures. If tornadoes spawn this devastation can reach further away from the East coast and I fear this will happen. If so, this could possibly keep power lines and such down in areas which are not coastal.

At minimum, many states will be left without modern day needs: Fresh water, electricity, no phone service as lines and towers will fall prey to these winds and waters. Travel will be very limited, if not impossible. Stores will be closed and there may be a tremendous amount of looting as many will not prepare in advance and find themselves hungry, cold and without shelter. This is exactly what happened in Louisiana! People were told and yet they did not leave, nor prepare for the monster which came onshore. In as much, crime and violence became the law in New Orleans! The police officers were stealing too! Things can and will get nasty if people get into a panicked mode. Especially, when there is no food, nor water to drink.

I pray what I just wrote does not happen. However, given the information pertaining to this storm, I fear things may get too chaotic, leaving many to feel helpless. I certainly hope the volunteers and Red Cross can get in there as soon as the storm allows.

I have been watching the news of Sandy since early this morning. They were just talking about Atlantic City where the waves have already ripped up the Boardwalk. The waves have carried those enormous boards crashing into houses a block away from the beach. Now that's power.

It's 6:00 p.m. here and they are basically saying "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" as they predict even stronger winds and heavier downpours of rain tonight. God Help Us! This is one time they didn't exaggerate the magnitude of a storm. I am thankfully safe, but it is so hard to watch what people are going through. (Sitting here now, the winds are really picking up and the windows are starting to rattle.) Pray we all get through this.

To answer your question Sandy will be very devastating. Biggest storm in the history of this area. A lot of damage-control and clean-up when it's over.

I remember when Katrinia happened I was so shocked by how bad it was. The Army Cor. of engineers predicted that if the levees were not worked on that there could be a huge disaster. Our President at the time didn't care he said we didn't have the money to work on the levees even though we had saved for the work to be done.

So as much as I am optimist I am also wise enough to prepare for the worst. We can not really predict what the clean up will be like until it is done. I am in MD & already see Ocean City is getting a lot of damage. All kinds of things from different directions are happening.

I don't think we can possibly know in advance. Often we have watched nothing happen all the way to what happened with Katrinia & in many other areas of the world with Tsunami's, etc.

From the charts and predictions it looks like it could take it's toll on all who are in it's path. I'm afraid for them. Knowing how people react differently to every potential threat, even that from Mother Nature, I'm pretty sure there will be fatalities, (hopefully ONLY looters.) The rest will help each other survive and rebuild and come out of it even stronger than ever. People on the east coast are a breed all their own.

The authorities seem to be on top of it, and isn't it wonderful to have most of our brave men and women of the military nearby and not across the ocean this time! It's going to be bad, but the country will come together and things will be rebuilt.

Maybe not the mass devastion like Katrina but definitely more wide spread.

My son just moved from Virginia to North Carolina last week. He's much safer there. He lived in a flood zone and the house we spent two days cleaning so he could get his deposit back is now flooded. He got the deposit already, TG! He works in Virginia Beach and where he works is shutting down as we speak. He's more inland and away from water in NC. And this is not even near the projected main "hit".

I am in North Carolina. It pounded our coast this morning, but we are getting snow tonight, and the cold mixing in with the storm plus the full moon affecting the tides will probably make it that much more severe as it goes farther up the coast. I live in the mountains.

ct is shutting down all highways and no trucks are allowed since 11am...

the ocean has already reached flood stage and a lot of homes are already getting flood waters to 1st floor windows and this hasn't even begun yet.... this storm should wipe out all the homes on the coast...

inland a lot of wind aprox..70mph for about 36 hours straight.. it isn't to windy yet but it is beginning to pick up..lots of trees were compromised from last oct 29 storm so we will probably loose a lot of trees and damaged homes from that

bridgeport ct energy station that supplies electricity to the residents has already been compromised taking on water...36K without power right now..

hmmm so what do you think..i think we are in for a heck of a storm..

I'm in the storm now, landfall took place 1/2 hour ago, and from the pictures I have seen on TV, the NJ shore is unrecognizable as you know it. High tide at 8PM, 11-13 ft tide, never seen them before.

My daughter lives in W Virginia about an hour from DC and said there is wind and rain with a chance of snow. I don't care about Sandy, I'll have more than one devastating blizzard this winter in Wisconsin that the rest of the world could give a rats rear end about.

Time will tell. Although it will get bad here(coastal VA) we dodged a bullit with the area of landfall. It is such a large storm with even full moons to affect tides. Storm surge is powerful.