Well, since we still have power, might as well update y'all. Lots of crazy stuff going on downtown. It's so surreal for me because where I am, nothing much seems to be happening. Looks like it'll be raining all day tomorrow and throughout Wednesday and possibly Thursday. Apparently, Sandy has been downgraded to a tropical storm but lots of damage has been done. Power has been lost in Staten Island, Brooklyn, Jersey, and Lower Manhattan. Severe flooding all in downtown Manhattan - from 23rd and 9th to 34th and 1st. And just think - we have tunnels all under the city that have already been filled. If we didn't have all of those, how much higher would the water be? One reason for all the power outages is because a Con-ed plant on 14th street exploded. Crazy. Check out the 3minute mark on the video below. Over 10,000 calls per HALF HOUR to 911 are being made. There's a crane on top of the new high-rise being built on 57th and 8th that is dangling over the edge and in danger of falling. The brick facade of a building on 14th and 8th got ripped off because of the wind - you could see straight into the apartments. Man, who knows when all this will get cleaned up. Not to mention all the nasty things that will be moving in an upward direction. Not looking forward to the smell, either. Here's a link to a radio station updating conditions in NYC: Listen Live. So far, Stry, Carolyn, and I are all well and safe. I'm going to go cook some of the stuff in
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Cuz Bill
10/29/2012 03:21:18 pm
WOW that's a big splosion. Glad ur safe. Not over yet. And NEVER walk under a crane.
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