Madness
This is really pretty unbelievable. The city that never closes is closed. The most vibrant area of NYC, the southern end of Manhattan, is without power, without subways. It's like a zombie movie.
My graphics bootcamp thingie was canceled, unsurprisingly. I can't even get out of town (Amtrak is closed), and am only able to reach Brooklyn now (and that by taking three trains on lengthy journeys). I am supposed to go to my cousin's birthday party tonight, but I may end up skipping it because I can't get to Williamsburg (and back, more importantly).
The news is almost nothing but storm, storm, storm. It reminds me of the coverage after 9/11, where people mostly forgot there was an election going on (which allowed Bloomberg to eke out a victory by flooding the airwaves with commercials). Everything is about basic facts-of-life stories, like "where can I get power/water/food?" The extent of public interest stories is NY1 airing random people on the street complaining about disaster response. Cable TV was out from 7 PM through primetime until at least about 2 AM. And my area wasn't really even hit. Normally that would get a flood of complaints; now nobody I've seen has even mentioned it.
Bloomberg just postponed the marathon, after a huge public outcry when he said he would continue it. And we really didn't get hit that hard, compared to say, New Jersey. There's a reason Chris Christie suddenly looks serious and doesn't want to badmouth the President. Things are pretty damned serious out there.
Being a political person I can't help but dwell on how this will affect the election. But I don't really have any good answers for that, just paranoid worries.
My graphics bootcamp thingie was canceled, unsurprisingly. I can't even get out of town (Amtrak is closed), and am only able to reach Brooklyn now (and that by taking three trains on lengthy journeys). I am supposed to go to my cousin's birthday party tonight, but I may end up skipping it because I can't get to Williamsburg (and back, more importantly).
The news is almost nothing but storm, storm, storm. It reminds me of the coverage after 9/11, where people mostly forgot there was an election going on (which allowed Bloomberg to eke out a victory by flooding the airwaves with commercials). Everything is about basic facts-of-life stories, like "where can I get power/water/food?" The extent of public interest stories is NY1 airing random people on the street complaining about disaster response. Cable TV was out from 7 PM through primetime until at least about 2 AM. And my area wasn't really even hit. Normally that would get a flood of complaints; now nobody I've seen has even mentioned it.
Bloomberg just postponed the marathon, after a huge public outcry when he said he would continue it. And we really didn't get hit that hard, compared to say, New Jersey. There's a reason Chris Christie suddenly looks serious and doesn't want to badmouth the President. Things are pretty damned serious out there.
Being a political person I can't help but dwell on how this will affect the election. But I don't really have any good answers for that, just paranoid worries.