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By a fluke, I happened to be out of town. How about you all?
What kind of building do you live in? Do you have power? (I was thinking about people on high floors in elevator buildings.) If you're in an apartment building, did your staff come through for you? Were you adequately prepared?
High rise, Upper East Side...we never lost power, heat, water, cable. Two days after the storm, for some reason we lost our dial tone for several hours.
We hardly felt much wind but we came down to the Street for a while to get a feel for the storm...
East River came to Second Avenue for a bit (or so we heard the next day) but we are up the hill so we neverr saw any water.
One tree down on the street atop an unfortunate Honda...but that was the extent of it.
I must admit a slight feeling of guilt at escaping completely unscathed, but heck we carry enough guilt around from out mangled childhoods so I hereby dismiss the guilt.
I must admit a slight feeling of guilt at escaping completely unscathed, but heck we carry enough guilt around from out mangled childhoods so I hereby dismiss the guilt.
I feel the guilt too. I am extremely grateful, but it's so odd....you would never know that a hurricane hit in my neighborhood. It is unchanged from a week ago.
I feel the guilt too. I am extremely grateful, but it's so odd....you would never know that a hurricane hit in my neighborhood. It is unchanged from a week ago.
I feel the same way.There were a couple of trees down in the park across the street but that's it.Trees come down there at least a few times a year anyway.My building is like a fortress and I couldn't even hear the wind blowing in most of it with the exception of the living room.Lights never even flickered.My bedroom is in the back and if the storm had come in the middle of the night I probably would have slept right through it.Weird.
I never feel guilty - just grateful. Manhattan often tends to escape the worst of most storms.
I was just talking to a friend who lives near Third Avenue in the teens, an older woman who has trouble walking and lives several floors up. Oddly, what bothered her was not being unable to use her refrigerator, shower, or toilet - but what was pushing her over the edge was the early darkness and the eerie silence.
And she's right - blackouts tend to be in the summer, with more daylight.
totally lucky. i live in a 6 floor apartment in central Riverdale, got a parking spot under a highway overpass so my car was protected. no power outage(except for no TV or computer for almost 48 hrs), no floods. no problems
We are doing good in Bayonne, NJ. There was some flooding by the coast lines of the town and the entire town has been without power for the week, but we got it back on last night. FEMA has been here handing out food to people in need of it which has been good.
Other than that, it has been uneventful and we stayed safe and happy to have power back. Definitely been shocked with how much damage happened now that I got to see the news on tv.
Live near Union Square. I left Tuesday morning and crashed at on friend's couch for the week. Got back home Saturday afternoon. It was annoying and exhausting, but other people had it much worse. I was very lucky to have a place to go. Many stayed by either necessity or choice.
I admit I'm a wuss. As soon as I lost internet and cell service I had to get out of here.
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