I'm from Central America but nothing bad happenned in my country, when Sandy was in the Caribbean Sea like a week ago, it was all day cloudy and raining, with heavy winds all day...
I'm in Wilmington, DE right now. The wind is blowing really hard. I'm scared that a tree will fall on my house any second (there's quite a few in our backyard.)
The rain isn't actually THAT bad, not worse then any other storm. Hopefully, it won't get worse.