We're in a tricky situation. We're supposed to have a heavy winter which means more emergency closings. We can't move the last day of school because we get out so late (June 27) and the teacher's union won't let school stay open past July 1st. I suppose they'd cut into spring and winter break (not to be confused with holiday break, winter break is in Feburary). We also only have two days of school next week anyway because of a teacher's convention and election day.
i wouldn't be surprised if NYC public schools are closed the rest of the week- it may take at least that long before subways are fully back on line, and they can't open schools w/o the MTA. if your school follows the public calendar, you'll be closed as well. eliminating the february break would be fine w/ me.
I'd rather have april break than february, but februrary break is a move to save money on the heating bill, so we'll probably lose time in April.
The standing water has to have all the sewage in it I'm sure. That has got to be some nasty stuff. Don't they normally do controlled sewage dumps into the Hudson? I wonder if the Hudson may not be better off after this, i.e. a natural cleansing? I feel for those folks. That is one big mess from seeing all the pics.
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Oh yeah!! There was a piece on this last night on World News with Diane Sawyer. Their medical correspondent took a sample from the flooding in Manhattan and took it to a lab. If it has bacteria sewage then the water would glow in the blacklight. Sure did. They are supposed to find out what else is in the water on tonight's segment.
There were drunken morons running around in the water taking pictures & partying at the height of the flooding that I coudl see out my window on monday night, also I could see the lights of the region's biggest sewage treatment facility about a 1/3 mile away out the window. I'd guess it was probably 10-25% raw sewage. Geniuses.
It was opposite with this storm. Typically it's the right side of the storm that has all the rain and nastiest winds - but because this storm was really a nor'eastern with some tropical characteristics - the worst was on the south and west. The damage was really about wind gusts knocking down trees and the storm surge. A small storm would have been a laugher. So would a storm that gave NYC a direct hit. We got hurt because we took east winds.
