I figured you would know!

Wow. That's a lot of cables.

Also, ignore any hysteria about the Alert at Oyster Creek nuclear plant in New Jersey. The plant was in a refueling outage, and it looks like it's basically a tech spec alert. The water level in the building that houses the water intake reached the technical specifications that require an Alert be declared, but it's water from the storm surge and should go down in a couple of hours. That's part of the cooling system for the spent fuel pool, but so far there doesn't seem to be any damage. There are alternate ways to supply cooling.

Thanks, Ginger, I don't know what I'd do without you and your valuable perspective.

Dana, ABQ: It's an interesting town. It has a lot going for it, but I know people who hate it. It's a reasonably liberal area for the west, but that's compared to places like my rural Arizona where they're still not really sold on this whole United States thing. You'd have at least one really great Senator, though.

Quality of life stuff definitely depends on where you live; there's a pretty big disparity. It's a good sized town, so there are cultural things and stuff like the great botanical garden and aquarium and natural history museum.

The airport is really easy to navigate. Public transportation is pretty poor, although it's improving with things like the Rail Runner, which goes up to Santa Fe. Library system is pretty good. And there's a hot air balloon festival!

Looks like the eye of the storm wants to go to Columbus, Ohio next.

I was gonna say hot air balloons with an exclamation point and then I reached the end of Liese's post.

My Internet’s back this morning. I’m feeling very lucky right now. Especially since I don’t rely on the subway to get to work. The subway is going to be shut down for a long time.

Pretty much every school and business and government office in my area is closed today. Except my university, which is holding regular classes.

WE have power now, although it was out for a few hours last night, and we had to deal with some water in the basement. Thus we are tired, but okay. Hoping the power holds! There is still quite a bit of rain coming down, but, as I said to my DH this morning, it seems really quiet out there right now after listening to the winds really howling last night.

We're high enough up that our only real concern was power and we kept it. Hope everyone else is hanging in there.