Today’s NY Times headline:
Morning
paper not delivered
No
national news on TV, only local, all the time
No
mail
Lower Manhattan in the dark
Branches
from trees outside my apartment flew off over night
Approximately
6 million people without power, with some maybe having to wait more than a
week to get it back — the biggest outage in Con Ed’s history
The
most destruction to the 108-year old subway system with seven lines flooded
All
patients evacuated from NYU Langone Hospital, when the backup
generator failed
Stock
market closed for two days
And the famous Halloween Parade cancelled
When that girl yesterday
wished for a “badder” Sandy, I understood.
It wasn’t a wish for disaster, but rather some weather excitement. My few blocks in New York are spared. National television did not air. Commercial-free TV was focused on the major
storm that was coming. Ya, ya, we’ve
heard that before. The trees outside my
window shimmered and rain fell, but hardly worth noticing.
Sandy seemed to arrive,
skipping my neighborhood with her full force, causing only a few tree limbs to
fall. My little oasis is spared. But around me there is devastation. Power out everywhere. Homes lost.
Fires. Floods. The Jersey Shoreline re-written.
The New York Times said Sandy, “left behind a tableau of damage, destruction and
grief.” No one wants a storm to be this
bad.
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