Also check out this collection of images from Sandy

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/10/hurricane-sandy-after-landfall/100396/

I hope everyone's staying safe on the East coast. Let us know you're doing okay, please.

I was kinda expecting a shitstorm today........

...... got shitty winds instead.

Yeah got a depressing dark day instead of anything serious.

How did shit catch fire?

Most likely some power line was dragged down by a tree and it started to arc.

It looks like the east coast has no clue how to prepare for a hurricane.

It looks like the Northeast coast has no clue how to prepare for a hurricane.

Fixed that for you =]

There's not a whole lot the Northeast can do to prepare for a hurricane. Really, there's so many trees that are right over the power lines that taking the time to trim them all would take thousands to millions of dollars. They would rather take the chance of some areas not getting hit as hard and then do repairs of the areas that did get hit hard.

It's a fucked up situation with storms up here. We only know how to deal with snow.

Well the smartest thing they could have done was shut off the power. That way you didn't get any stupid fires as a result.