The Best Panicked Tweets About Hurricane Sandy

Gather your kids, your batteries, and your jars of peanut butter, we hear this is going to be the big one.  

Hurricane Sandy is making its way toward the U.S. East Coast, likely to bring a nasty combination of wind, rain and snow to tens of million of people from Maine to the Carolinas.  

Many in Sandy's destruction path have taken to Twitter to express their distress.

Here's a sampling of the social media panic.  

Hurricane Sandy continues to surprise seasoned meteorologists.

The Weather Channel meteorologist previously compared Sandy to the "Super Outbreak" of 1974, considered the worst tornado outbreak in US history.

It's bad any way you look at it.

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