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Frankenstorm Reminds Us It's A Small World

Patch wants to know your connection to Hurricane Sandy. Are you glued to CNN, praying for relatives, or are they evacuating to your spare room?

It's a small world, and it seems a little smaller today. After all, one storm is blanketing the entire East Coast.

Hurricane Sandy is at times an F1 hurricane, and at other times just a tropical storm. Maybe not just a tropical storm, but the tropical storm—the superstorm. No matter, it has our attention. All of our attention.

Atlantic City has suspended gambling, so you know it's a big deal. New York City, which has issued an evacuation warning, suspended subway service Sunday night.

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Here in the safety of 85-degree weather, we're wondering what your thoughts are about the confluence of factors that seems to have very nearly created a perfect storm.

Do you have friends and relatives on the East Coast? What are they doing? What are you doing to help them, support them, encourage them? Are you making your spare room available to anyone who has evacuated the storm's crosshairs?

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The American Red Cross, which has already mobilized its resources in anticipation, is encouraging those in Sandy's path to download the Hurricane Mobile App for their phones (search American Red Cross in iTunes).

Let us know your connection to Frankenstorm.


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