I am so glad to hear from those who have already checked in and anxiously await the others.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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.
Liese S. - Oct 30, 2012 5:06:22 am PDT #27737 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Strix - Oct 30, 2012 5:08:14 am PDT #27738 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Moi aussi.
msbelle - Oct 30, 2012 5:08:32 am PDT #27739 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Also? For pete's sake people, do not go out wading in flood waters. There may be downed lines that could go live, floating debris, the normal yuck from city streets now floating up near you.
I am reading this article [link]
A security guard at 7 World Trade Center, Gregory Baldwin, was catching some rest in his car after laboring overnight against floodwaters that engulfed a nearby office building.
"The water went inside up to here," he said, pointing to his chest. "The water came shooting down from Battery Park with the gusting wind."
that is my previous office building.
Jesse - the death toll thing bugs me too - yes, 66 people died in the Caribbean
Jesse - Oct 30, 2012 5:09:23 am PDT #27740 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
With the subways down, will it be possible for everyone in NYC to make it to work?
No. Or, it depends. When I lived in Manhattan and the subways flooded, I walked the four miles to my office (unlike a coworker who lived five blocks from me -- I was still young and eager). When I lived in Queens and the transit workers were on strike, I didn't leave the neighborhood, because fuck that.
tommyrot - Oct 30, 2012 5:13:30 am PDT #27741 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In random disaster broadcast commentary, I thought the interpreter for Mayor Bloomberg rocked. She reminded me of my friend's deaf parents. They always spoke with terrific expression and animation. So often the person doing the interpretation is wooden.
NYC Mayor Bloomberg's ASL interpreter Lydia Calas has her own fan-tumblr - Boing Boing
Sue - Oct 30, 2012 5:14:06 am PDT #27742 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Zankitty and MFNLaw posted on Twitter this AM. Maria was still w/o power six hours ago.
msbelle - Oct 30, 2012 5:14:58 am PDT #27743 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I could not have made it to work without great difficulty when I lived in Queens and worked in Manhattan. It is possible though that the MTA will be able to patch together service. My subways in Queens were above ground elevated lines until 2 stops before Manhattan. If they start shuttle service over bridges on city buses they would at least be able to get people into Manhattan. It really depends how much underground service is damaged. 2-3 long-term closed stations will not disrupt things too much.
Thoughts that freaked me out last night - Roosevelt Island tram. I know it was grounded, but my brain went to the what if place. shudder.
Sue - Oct 30, 2012 5:15:28 am PDT #27744 of 30001
hip deep in pie
The CBC is reporting that the female crew member who died when the Bounty replica sank was a descendant of Fletcher Christian. [link]
askye - Oct 30, 2012 5:18:17 am PDT #27745 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
I'm fine. Didn't lose power. I slept really badly last night so I'm only now just awake.
Vermont got lucky and there's wind damage and power outages but it's nothing compared to the rest of the country.
Tom Scola - Oct 30, 2012 5:19:15 am PDT #27746 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They're not saying how long the subway will be out, but I will be really surprised if anything at all is running for the next few days, and I'm guessing weeks before the system is completely back up. It's in bad shape.