Grover and Big Bird are on the run, hiding from that mean mean man!

Damn, Frankenstorm won't happen. There goes the word of the day. And its followup, Stormagedon.

No mud flurries either.

Where are you seeing that it won't happen?

Seriously. I got about half a dozen email messages from mid-atlantic colleagues today basically saying "the weather is going to suck so much don't plan on me being in the office next week".

The weather is supposed to suck so bad, I may not even go on and on about Rachael Price or Lake Street Dive.

No, really.

It might happen.

I'm going to buy a real chainsaw tomorrow just to have handy in case I need to disabuse some branches of the notion that falling in inconvenient places is ok.

Hmm, premature prognostication? I found a couple of bulletins suggesting Sandy was going to head out to sea. Seems they were in the vast minority.

Woohooooo, mud flurries are still on. Make George smile...

The power company has some guys in my neighbor's backyard this morning working on the power box back there. Hoping this means that we won't have as many outages any more. Not holding out a great deal of hope that we'll make it through this storm without an outage, though.

Wonder if I can get any dry ice around here.

Some Harris Teeter stores have some in a cooler near the front of the store.

You guys get all the cool stuff in stores down there. I don't think I've ever seen dry ice in a store.

So, what exactly would your average Joe be using dry ice for?