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    Posted: 25 Oct 2012 at 10:56pm
Thanks Techntrek!  We've decided to come home early Sunday.  Hopefully we will be out of town before the storm is too bad.  I guess we'll have to pay close attention and not check out from reality like we usually do when we camp.
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I wouldn't ride out a hurricane in a pod.  Like your in-laws we have several old oaks over our driveway and where I usually store the pod which are notorious for dropping dead branches.  Twice now with the threat of a hurricane I've moved our pod down to an open field to get it away from trees and branches.

This one is getting worse.  As of this morning it was going to weaken to a tropical storm and land somewhere mid-NJ.  Now the national news just said it is instead strengthening and one likely scenario is a direct landfall at Ocean City, MD.  If it goes just a hair farther south it will come right up the bay as a full-strength hurricane...
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Hurricane Sandy is on the way and we have plans to camp at the Delaware Seashore State Park for the weekend.  I'm pretty sure we will be fine for Friday and Saturday, maybe even Sunday.  Monday is the wildcard.  I'm not one to run from rain but this could be a different story.  We can go to the in-laws and park in front of their house but they have a lot of old trees and branches often fall during storms. I think I may check a local hotel to see if their garage has enough clearance that we can park there until the storm passes.  

Has anyone stuck it out during a tropical storm/hurricane?  What do you think... stick it out or head home a day early? Any thoughts are appreciated.  
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