I have a pregnant friend I'm concerned about in the Cincinnati area. They haven't mentioned her area at all that I've seen, so I don't know if she was affected and if so, how bad.

Then again, from watching most news broadcasts, you'd think that NYC was the only city on the whole East coast; or at least, the only one that mattered. :-P Most of last night I was wondering (and worrying) about people like you out in more rural areas. Of cus, as you have mentioned, in many ways country folk are far better equipped to handle this sort of crisis than those in urban areas.