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I am hoping the whole city, save for my block of course, is washed away so we can start over.
The first thing I'd fix is start numbering streets from all the way down, and not just only above soho. This way we'll be like miami, with a numbered grid covering the WHOLE city and I won't have to be stopped to give directions to every tourist who thinks, "oooh, stop and ask the rushing idiot in the suit on the 98 degree summer day where canal street is".
For some reason, tourists are attracted to men in suits like moths to a light, thinking we are really walking information booths with lots of time on our hands...
Simple solution - find a job where you can wear Carharts and flannel as your "uniform."
At least your tourists do not ask you the exchange rate of Alaskan dollars versus US dollars, or ask if they need a passport to visit Alaska from California.
I might mention that my favorite female news reporter said today that New York City is full of tall buildings with many of them scaffolded for repairs and the like. Also, the city is full of tall , high reaching cranes that may blow over very easily. The problem is that Megyn is the only person I have heard mention this part of a hurricane in NYC. Whoops, she works on Fox News and that makes her a bit above the people over at MSNBC.
The only person? CNN and the Weather Channel have mentioned several times that cranes and building equipment in NY, on things like Freedom Tower have been secured in preparation.
I cannot believe people actually bought tickets just to 'avoid' this catastrophic hurricane. The media are an expert when it comes to hyping something up.
Lol. NYC will be fine. Irene's only going to be a weak Category 1 or a tropical storm by the time it reaches there. My city went through five feet of flooding and up to 125 mph winds with Wilma back in 2005 and there wasn't any looting.
At least your tourists do not ask you the exchange rate of Alaskan dollars versus US dollars, or ask if they need a passport to visit Alaska from California.
I LOL'd at that one, that's when you just give the frozen stare, without any vocal response.
That's beyond getting muddy with the pigs, such abject stupidity cannot even be approached with a response.
Or a shotgun fired over their heads might work.
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