A while I can imagine. For Irene it took a day or so for the subways to come back because they have to physically walk all the tracks and check them. If some are still underwater...
it was amazing watching the hipster liveblog go from super blithe/ironic/making fun of the storm, to super scared/wanting their parents/realizing people were dying, to gloomy existentialist musings on first world privilege, to calls for volunteering for the red cross.
seems pretty accurate. Like as annoying as it was I would probably have gone through a very similar progression. It made it seem even scarier though, to slowly watch blithe hipsters become actually scared.
We have one friend in Manhattan who remains unheard-of this morning, I hope he is ok...
Have you read about Haiti? Holy shit. How is anyone even still alive in that country at all.
also people buying 6 tubs of ice cream then slowly realizing that when the power is out your ice cream melts
it's heavy to think about all the ways you'd be impacted that you couldn't even imagine, because you've never had hardship before. I could totally imagine buying ice cream and not thinking about what "electricity" brings to my life. Like I don't think we even own a flashlight.
I also heard the power, the generator, AND the backup generator failed at NYU hospital so how are they keeping people alive???
yes!!! Looks like a total apocalyptic wasteland. what do people even do after something like this?
also saw a couple and a dog in a rowboat going down the street.
Thinking of all the snoopys and homeless people and other disadvantaged....awful. My friend Michael saw a homeless guy who had elaborately bungee-corded a cardboard/tarp contraption together and secured it to a fence. In the night I woke up thinking about him, riding it out in such a setting. So intense
I think they moved all the patients out of the hospital with no power to other hospitals. So sayeth the NYTimes.
Reading the TC liveblog was really moving/epic, I also was like "two kinds of fries? Chips, cookies, and soda? THAT'S your food stash to ride out an emergency???" But it was an engaging window into what is/was happening.
Cory Booker @CoryBooker Don't know but UR living with courage & resiliency NOT a savage RT @Lifechanger14: where is power 4 irvington, tired of living like a savage Expand
Cory Booker @CoryBooker Yes. RT @majjicwoman: is it dangerous to boil water to keep warm? Expand
Cory Booker @CoryBooker God has a sense of humor. On Garside convincing diabetic 2go 2 hospital. We see a fire, run to it & its a guy w/ a BBQ pit. No rescue needed Expand
god, I read about staten island in the airport and got really upset that mom whose toddlers were swept from her arms and later found dead! can't believe it took them so long to decide to cancel the marathon!!!!!
My office won't have heat for a while. As far as things go not the worst. By far. Everyone is wearing gloves and hats. My toes are chilly. Not as bad as unheated DoS winter cement block prison vibes though.
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seems pretty accurate. Like as annoying as it was I would probably have gone through a very similar progression. It made it seem even scarier though, to slowly watch blithe hipsters become actually scared.
We have one friend in Manhattan who remains unheard-of this morning, I hope he is ok...
Have you read about Haiti? Holy shit. How is anyone even still alive in that country at all.
Fucked!
"Preparation for the hurricane: wine, cheese steak subs, curly fries, fiesta dip, enchilada doritos, spicy fries, strawberry newtons, raspberry cookies, jalapeno pringles, strawberry sunny D, RC Cola, beer and vodka."
that's a real one, they're all like that
I don't think you know what "preparation" means, kid
it's heavy to think about all the ways you'd be impacted that you couldn't even imagine, because you've never had hardship before. I could totally imagine buying ice cream and not thinking about what "electricity" brings to my life. Like I don't think we even own a flashlight.
I also heard the power, the generator, AND the backup generator failed at NYU hospital so how are they keeping people alive???
what do people even do after something like this?
also saw a couple and a dog in a rowboat going down the street.
Thinking of all the snoopys and homeless people and other disadvantaged....awful. My friend Michael saw a homeless guy who had elaborately bungee-corded a cardboard/tarp contraption together and secured it to a fence. In the night I woke up thinking about him, riding it out in such a setting. So intense
Reading the TC liveblog was really moving/epic, I also was like "two kinds of fries? Chips, cookies, and soda? THAT'S your food stash to ride out an emergency???" But it was an engaging window into what is/was happening.
Photos of Ave C all flooded hit me really hard.
Nuevo Yorkitos estan resiliencero y stongero. Un stormo no esta que knocko nosotros overo. Que fighto!
Cory Booker @CoryBooker
Don't know but UR living with courage & resiliency NOT a savage RT @Lifechanger14: where is power 4 irvington, tired of living like a savage
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Cory Booker @CoryBooker
Yes. RT @majjicwoman: is it dangerous to boil water to keep warm?
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Cory Booker @CoryBooker
God has a sense of humor. On Garside convincing diabetic 2go 2 hospital. We see a fire, run to it & its a guy w/ a BBQ pit. No rescue needed
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that mom whose toddlers were swept from her arms and later found dead!
can't believe it took them so long to decide to cancel the marathon!!!!!
I am serious, I need to know!
And by the way Corey Booker looking at his political future: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/11/cory_booker_to_decide_soon_whe.html