Thank you for your concern and I feel bad I didn't reply sooner [I don't come on weasyl often but after some art was stolen I guess ill need to check here more often] The storm was crazy and I remember driving back from furfright with a convoy of emergency responders just as the winds were starting to hit nj. The jeep I was driving nearly rolled over at one point scaring the hell out of both myself and the passenger I was bringing home. I also remember when it got really bad I was 10 miles out from Tonys and doing 100+ MPH with lights and sirens. To this day it is the only time I have even gone over 100 MPH without a true and real emergency taking place.

Overall I look back on it as an experience I can learn from. For instance I have learned that you can not rely on phones working in a disaster. Either the towers are damaged, or you have hundreds of thousands of calls being placed, killing the bandwidth. In the weeks after the storm I purchased several GMRS radios [which have since been replaced with ham and MURS radios] so that should something happen my family has a way to communicate with me when we are in a general area. I have also made emergency plans with my family so should we become separated and lose contact, we have a meeting point that is always outside of the predicted storm area. There were a lot of valuable lessons learned from the storm and I put them to practice every month. :)