Hurricane Sandy, dubbed Frankenstorm by the media, is expected to hammer the East Coast of the United States, Southern Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. Downed power lines and trees, flooding and general mayhem could create problems for contractors with roofs open or excavations exposed.

Any advice to offer your contractor peers in the path of Sandy? Comment here, and we’ll choose the best advice for republication in a separate article. And we’ll give the winner $1 million! Actually, no, we won’t. But with some good advice here, we might all save millions of dollars in storm-damaged renovation disasters.