Since the storm was swirling counterclockwise, the "dirty side " was the southwest to west. For the rain and snow, it would mostly be around Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia, South Jersey, and Maryland. The other side will be extremely dry, since all the moisture is on the dirty side. New York, Northern Pennsylvania, North Jersey, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut were on the dry side. It's the surge that will do the most damage in NYC, since the storm hit at high tide. The most dangerous part now is downed power lines and getting electrocuted, while people check out the aftermath.
My Nikon D4 camera (Fedex) and Nikon 300mm 2.8 VR2 lens (UPS) are stuck in Secaucus NJ and Keasbey NJ, respectively, while I wait for them Boston. Should I be worried about flood damage to them? I was looking forward to using them today. Now, I just want them to arrive here safely. What is the proper protocol if water damage is evident on the outside packaging? Refusal of shipment at delivery?
Ok, listen! I don't give a damn about politics right now. Right now I'm worried about Halloween with the candy, and whether homes or restaurants can provide the meals I love without the electricity they need. If you don't think that is not my priority, then you don't know me!
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57542362/inside-nyc-hospitals-near-disaster-amid-sandy/ It was an extraordinary scene at NYU Langone Medical Center after the main and backup power generators failed. The stakes could not have been higher. When I arrived shortly before midnight yesterday, the lobby was filled with doctors, nurses, police officers, firefighters, and a command team of medical center personnel headed by Dr. Robert Grossman, the Dean and CEO of the medical center. They were all racing against time to try to transfer approximately 200 patients out of the Tisch Building. That included 20 newborns - four with breathing tubes - in the intensive care unit, or ICU. Those infants were swaddled in blankets and carefully carried with intravenous lines, oxygen, and monitoring devices attached. I saw a 29-week-old premature being held by a nurse who held an oxygen mask to his face. Anxious faces of parents and family members dotted the lobby. How could this have happened? I was told by a member of the NYU response team that water flooding over the FDR Drive had taken out not only the backup generator but the backup to the backup generator. The secondary backup device is on a low floor and was disabled by the flooding. The primary backup generator is on the roof but the pump that supplies fuel to that generator is on a lower floor and was flooded. When I arrived, there was still some power left in the backup generator but nobody knew exactly how much. Some lights still worked. I was told that some ventilators still worked but that some were operating on battery power. Many patients were too sick to walk down the narrow staircase to the lobby. They were painstakingly carried on plastic sleds - one by one - by teams of four to five people from as high up as the 17th floor. I went to several of the floors with Dr. Mark Pochapin, the director of the Division of Gastroenterology at NYU. He was one of a team of people making sure that communication flowed and that everybody was accounted for. The intensive care unit was already evacuated when I arrived. Lit only by my flashlight, filled with crumpled blankets and other evidence of a hasty retreat, it appeared eerie to me - like a scene in a movie where a cup of still-warm-coffee tells the detective that somebody had been a room only minutes before. But this was undeniably real life and the clock was ticking as the team of workers raced to evacuate the patients. I was told by a spokesperson for NYU Tuesday morning that all but 50 patients have been transferred to local hospitals such as Cornell, Mt. Sinai, Memorial Sloan Kettering, North Shore Lenox Hill, and Hospital for Joint Diseases. The remaining 50 are expected to be transferred by about 10:00 a.m. Tuesday. I am awaiting details about how the patients are holding up. But given the potential for catastrophe when the evening began, the extraordinary efforts of the response team appear to have averted disaster.
I was on the phone with my brother who lived in Queens for years, and we were both dying laughing at this. It's got to be a Saturday Night Live skit soon. It looked like she was talking about smoking weed, churning butter, eating good food and smelling farts. So awesome, while the Mayor just looked like a robot.
toxic rainbow: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/brianlehrer">brianlehrer</a> Rainbow over the <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Gowanus">#Gowanus</a> Canal just a little while ago. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Sandy">#Sandy</a> is on her way out. <a href="http://t.co/TNavgaFv" title="http://twitter.com/ConorMcDonough/status/263269919016226816/photo/1">twitter.com/ConorMcDonough…</a></p>— Conor McDonough (@ConorMcDonough) <a href="https://twitter.com/ConorMcDonough/status/263269919016226816" data-datetime="2012-10-30T13:23:35+00:00">October 30, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Yeah because they have no hurricanes in the South. We have plenty of room in Minnesota. No hurricanes or earthquakes, just deadly cold, blizzards, and occasional river flooding. At least we have a lot of beer.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The 12' 8" clearance to the Battery Tunnel. <a href="http://t.co/ieNHgRyV" title="http://twitter.com/darrellsilver/status/263254307728666625/photo/1">twitter.com/darrellsilver/…</a></p>— Darrell Silver (@darrellsilver) <a href="https://twitter.com/darrellsilver/status/263254307728666625" data-datetime="2012-10-30T12:21:33+00:00">October 30, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The clean up after this is going to be really bad. Not just the subway system but consider how much else of NYC is underground and on the first floor.
Really??? Lol. That's the beauty of sign language! Oh btw, the correct term is sign language interpreters. They have a really cool job...never boring unless it's in a school setting. I am friends with a lot of them from my years in high school, college, work and within the community. If you want to be an sign language interpreter then you have to be used to "all eyes on you". This is a perfect example. I shudder at the thought of dead rats. AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
