most of a hurricane's damage comes from flooding from storm surgers and from the rain fall, Hurricane IKE hit the texas coast as a CAT 2 (~110 mph winds) and parts of Houston looked like the forrest of Narnia + Flooding and there were places here that were without power for months and houston is about 70 to 80 miles away. the amount of damage is going to be more on how fast this storm is going to move over the new england states. doesn't have to be a hurricane to cause major flooding, case in point TS Allison...during that storm it took me 5 hrs to move 1 mile on I-10, it was a slow moving storm. so what i'm trying to say here is, just cause the winds aren't that strong if there is heavy rain there is still possibilities of heavy damage. So keep an eye on the weather and stay safe you east coasters.

pro tip. if you have to go outside during the storm use a Golf Umbrella with the double layer vent shit. will not invert. My Nike Golf umbrella was tested during Ike when i was outside during the storm to fix a busted water pipe going into my house. but if you don't need to go outside, for your safety and to help the local response teams to be more effective stay off the fucken roads during the storm <3