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.
Guys, I only now had the time to come here and read a bit, and DEAR LORD WTF OMG STAY SAFE~ma to you in Sandy's way. This is seriously terrifying.
Glad to hear people checking in this AM and that things are relatively fine.
Let's keep it that way, TPTB willing.
Power/cable/internet stayed on here. Thanking FUCK my sister doesn't live on the LES anymore! The explosion was visible from parts of Brooklyn and everyone below 39th St in Manhattan lost power. There are some pretty stunning photos of the skyline without lights. No idea how long it's going to take before we get the subway up and running again. I sense a very crowded express bus during tomorrow's commute. Assuming the bridge is passable.
