We are bracing for it here in the WAshington DC suburbs. Its curently 6PM and the worst is supposed to hit us from in the next 2-6 hours. If everyone here goes without hearing from me for a week, it will be because we will be out of power. We were hit by the deratio storm in late June and lost power for over a week, largely because a big oak tree fell over our lines. At least if we lose power this time the weather won't be oppressively hot like in the summer. Personally, I think there is something to the effects of global warming in our area. On top of everything else, there are blizzard conditions two hours to the west of us.