Federal government is closed tomorrow in DC. The announcement was made at 5:35. That's the earliest announcement I can remember.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fred Pete - Oct 28, 2012 3:24:31 pm PDT #27420 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Amy - Oct 28, 2012 3:26:27 pm PDT #27421 of 30001
Because books.
Our schools -- and most schools along the Philly to NYC corridor, I think -- are closed for Monday and Tuesday already. We have food, but I realized I need to bake something tonight in case we have no power in the morning -- we don't have anything but cold cereal for the kids otherwise.
sarameg - Oct 28, 2012 3:26:55 pm PDT #27422 of 30001
Aaaand now we're closed tomorrow. So maybe I'll go swimming in the morning t /crazed swimmer
Jessica - Oct 28, 2012 3:29:15 pm PDT #27423 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My offices are both closed tomorrow. DH's office is technically open but I assume that's because NBC also broadcasts the evening news out of that building and those people will need to get to work somehow.
Juliebird - Oct 28, 2012 3:32:32 pm PDT #27424 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Awesome!ED texted everyone back around 3pm to make the call that we were not to come into work on Monday. So no anxiety of do I/do I not have to wake up early, or the quiet resentment that it's a "those with office jobs don't bother coming in, but my dept. has to" situation. If it had been Old!Evil!ED, the text would have read "you don't *have* to come in if you don't want to (but it will cost you a vacation day if you stay home)".
le nubian - Oct 28, 2012 3:34:56 pm PDT #27425 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jessica,
OMG that Sandy picture map is the BOMB.
shrift - Oct 28, 2012 3:34:59 pm PDT #27426 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
In case anyone was wondering, for dinner I went with an arugula and pomegranate salad with onion, radishes, tomato, smoked Gouda, and turkey kielbasa.
Burrell - Oct 28, 2012 3:39:42 pm PDT #27427 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I was just coming by to post that Joss vid. Parkour!
I know Calli, but I think interest in the vid is being overwhelmed by the legitimate worries about Sandy's approach.
sarameg - Oct 28, 2012 3:51:49 pm PDT #27428 of 30001
I'd eat salads with you any day, shrift. My usual (because I am that lazy) is simply baby spinach, strawberries, goat cheese, TJs balsamic vinegar dressing with a chopped up basil pesto chicken sausage (also from TJs.)
Trudy Booth - Oct 28, 2012 3:54:44 pm PDT #27429 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah, NYC in particular could really use a measured response to an actual natural disaster. After the zero preparedness to the Christmas Blizzard (which wound up being a massive clusterfuck) and the over-preparedness to Irene (which wound up being a massive non-event), we just have no clue how this emergence preparedness thing is supposed to work
I really don't think we over-prepared for Irene. We're lucky it wasn't the hit it could have been... but if it WERE by the time we KNEW it would happen there wouldn't have been time for the 14 hour transit shut down process and what-not.
We're just so densely populated. It could be such a horror.