Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
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.
lisah, may you have twinnage fun!
It's been good times. I tried to teach them how to play Scrabble, we read a little Lemony Snicket. Plus had delicious butternut squash/broccoli rabe lasagna made for us & cookie swap rehearsal cookie and lots of wine. And Archer. Hope everybody sleeps okay and that the power holds!
...And power is lost at stepson's as well as tree on house. FUCK. They're ok, but FUCK.
Oh man. NYU Tisch hospital lost power. They have to evacuate out all of the PICU/NICU kiddos. According to reports, nurses are bagging the ventilator patients by hand.
Can't even imagine,
Oh, that's horrible, Kat. Damn.
Oh how awful.
Oh, my god, that explosion was INSANE.
Hundreds of gallons of mineral oil make a great torch. ConEd was trying to shut down power ahead of flooding, but there's just too much water, plus they'd try not to isolate critical loads like hospitals.
I don't see any way that explosion happens without a lot of people hurt. I don't know what kind of staffing they run at under these circumstances, but I hope there was time to get out.
It's fucked up out there. And I am simply stunned to still have power. Hoping it lasts. Afraid to voice anything more. And I'm not normally superstitious.
Worried about my northeast friends and family.
My mom is staying next door to her house with my gram (in my old house in CT), and her brother is in town and stuck here, which is good. I feel much better that she has someone else with her in case anything happens to Gram. They lost power about eight hours ago, and shortly after, a big ol' tree fell across the dirt driveway and took out the above-ground power lines. If the power comes back on (unlikely, but still), they have a live line situation.
It's fucked up out there.
Seriously
In trivial non-storm news, like Teppy, I just carved a pumpkin for the first time in a couple/three decades.
Unlike Teppy, I will not be sharing pictures of it, since it is really really sad, but I still had fun, and I put it on the porch so the neighbors can get a good laugh.