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Best wishes to everyone in the path of the storm. God bless, and stay safe.

 

Hurricane Sandy (2012)

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My thoughts to all those affected.

 

I am in the storms path and I can tell you, it's pretty fierce here. I am in Manhattan, on the 27th floor, facing east. The floor shakes, from time to time. And the gusts threaten to suck out the window anytime (has that ever happened before?) This day in history on October 29, 1998 John Glen returned to space. I don't want to make history and follow him, in this peculiar fashion. It might happen, Sandy will hit us head on tomorrow. Manhattan street life is quiet as I have never seen it in my 4 years here. Public transportation has been stopped and authorities are cutting power in some areas as a precaution.

In that calm and pleasant country of ours, England, hurricanes are the stuff of movies. So, I am (almost) a hurricane virgin - except for last year, of course, when my room flooded. Today's ill wind is labelled a "Frankenstorm". I took precautions to seal, what I can.

 

Keeping everything crossed for you. Stay safe.

 

My Son-in-Law is in Florida right now - what a time to choose conference!

 

Just so terrible to watch unfold. Powerless. Cant help but think of these poor people and their pets ;( Fingers and toes crossed for everyone and their loved ones.

 

Last night a gush of wind pushed the AC half a foot into my room. The windows did not blow out. Over night flashes across the city from explosions and fires. This morning NYC with news of an unprecedented 13 foot surge of flooding gushing into lower Manhattan, a crane bent in half 74 stories above midtown five to seven million without power, hospital evacuation, fires across the city, people killed by falling trees, and transportation remains disabled. There are still gusts of wind, but the worst it seems, is over. In the aftermath President Obama declared NY a major disaster with a projected cost of £10-$20 billion. Overnight everything changes. Puts life in perspective.

 

Hope to head up that way and help with post storm disaster response at the Jersey shore. A bit far from Alabama to head up with chain saw and tools in hand on a spur of the moment, especially since my wife and I are hosting 90 International students from Auburn University for supper at our home Thursday. Just burgers and the like, but still an undertaking if not just from cleaning the house.

It was a blessing this was essentially a huge tropical storm and not a Cat 5 Hurricane like Katrina. And glad to hear you just got to have an experience and not be a statistic.

 

Good to see that the New York Marathon is going ahead in 3 days! I have some buddies who were on there way to it when all this hit (and I assume Simon is there!), so its good to know that is on!

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I hope the transportation system has fully recovered by then. Today still no trains, but buses free of charge. Sum effect = buses full to bursting and road chaos with increased traffic. Tomorrow should be a little better .....

 

NBC have just announced its been canceled. I can't see any confirmation ... watch this space,

 

Definitely cancelled Craig, it's all over the news here.... Only a couple of hours ago Major Bloomberg insisted it would continue. Since then there has been growing outrage as many New Yorkers are struggling, without home, food, power, sanitation etc. Homeless people in hotels are getting turfed out to make room for marathon traffic etc.....

 

Interesting watching this unfold. There was one tweet about 20 mins ago saying NBC announced it - no one could find any confirmations from the usual news sources; then twitter went berserk. The #NYMarathon hashtag has had 100's of tweet over the last 15 minutes - the traditional news sources have now started to talk about it!

The vast majority of tweets are happy about the decision.

 

It's a tough call... 40,000 disappointed runners. I just got off a bus with a half dozen runners, together with their luggage. They traveled from Italy, for the event. They are disappointed, of course, but seem understanding of the circumstances. It's an unprecedented call from the organizers. In all likelihood the event could have been held, and it's doubtful IMHO this would have impacted on events in the city. It has more to do with what 'feels' like the right thing to do. In particular, people in Long Island, where the race is set to start, are in uproar because the city is slow to respond to their problems....... and after watching their plight on TV this afternoon, I can understand. The place looks like a scene from a disaster movie. Sandy left a trail of destruction and deaths ... not the time to celebrate

 

I have 3 friends who have made the trip all the way there from Melbourne for the marathon. The finally managed to get to New York yesterday! They going to be very disappointed.

 

Understandable. Bloomberg, I think, put the final nail in the coffin explaining this afternoon how the event generates $350 million revenue for the City. At a time when an awful lot of folk don't have a pot to *is* in. It's unfortunate, and in hindsight this should have been cancelled before the storm even hit. NYC never before has been hit so hard, and from a storm the size of Europe. I'm guessing everybody hoped against hope.