Scuzz
1581
ESPN is reporting the Marathon has been cancelled.
stusser
1582
YES! Power is back! FUCKING YES!
DAMN RIGHT!
I just took a shower so hot, I looked like a lobster.
4 days without hot water / no working toilet… is not fun.
*** whats crazy the town 5 miles down the road from me is still completely out of power, like 15,000 people! The Pathmark there had to throw out all their food that went bad, a friend who lives near it said the lot was loaded with dump trucks yesterday…
I saw a clip earlier today that showed a bunch of people dumpster diving for the food that was thrown out there.
stusser
1586
I just took a 45 minute long hot shower and have been blasting Slayer the entire time at high volume. I AM PUMPED! Lets go get some bitches and do some meth! Lets get in knife fights! Lets burn some motherfucking place DOWN! WHO’S WITH ME?!
Wolff
1587
Not me still cold still in the dark
Thank god he canceled the marathon. The tone-deafness from the mayor on this has been staggering.
Not to beat a dead horse but a couple of more reasons that actually running this would be insane. The marathon runs down a street called 4th avenue in Brooklyn, a major commercial route and haveing the marathon would have meant closing 15-20 working gas stations. Sanitation workers(many of whom live on SI) were complaining to their union that they didn’t want to have to clean up after the parade when they could be in SI cleaning up storm debris. A large number of sanitation trucks have to follow the marathon and clean up. The NYPD is stretched so thin that it was reaching out to retired members to help with the marathon. The part of the marathon that is in SI is literally whithin viewing distance of the hardest hit beach areas where they are still searching for people.
I have a lot of family and friends in Staten Island and I am amazed at the amount of destruction that I am hearing about.
Finally it is starting to become a story that is being properly reported and I am very very encouraged by what I am seeing with regards to the rest of the city starting to take notice and looking to pitch in with donations and volunteering.
The scale of destruction is really staggering though.
Apparently, there are a number of marathon runners (who presumably already have tickets, hotels, etc) who are still going to come to NYC and try to volunteer in the clean up effort. So that’s nice.
Power is finally back for me - life is good, and warm.
Congrats to those who have the lights on again! Such a great feeling of rejoicement which isn’t a word but should be.
My cousin and her two daughters slept over last night after a few days in the dark. They woke up to the news that power had been restored to their apartment in the city so they’re heading back now. Our neighbors across the street were saying goodbye to their powerless guests at the exact same time we were. :)
dtolman
1593
Estimate for my neighborhood by passing crew - week or more.
Gas lines not easing at all on LI - things are going to be scary next week if they don’t fix this…
Glad to hear folks are getting their lives back bit by bit. :)
I watched a news piece last night on looters. One guy had all his tools stolen from a business he had set up with all his savings, and he recognised one of the guys (they were mostly locals) in the group that had been going around to ‘check if everyone was ok in the house’, they were doing it around 11pm onwards in his area. That kind of crap needs the full weight of the law on peoples shoulders imho, this is no time for profiteering.
Durns
1596
Six days and still no power, getting cold. Volunteered yesterday, throwing people’s lives out on the street from their swamped ground floor apartments. Found a retirement home with no heat or food, cooked them pasta dinners on our gas stove.
Every business in the back of town was flooded out - screwed for at least a month, if they open again at all. No deaths here though, so realistically we’re the lucky ones. SI and the shore are really messed up.
dtolman
1597
Lucked out today - found a gas line that was only one hour long.
Now the bad - every day have a bit more trouble starting the blower on my heat. With power days away at best - weeks at worst - thats not good.
My sister and her family were just informed no power till Wednesday this week (9 days total), which seems crazy for us here in PA, we’ve never lost power for more than 24 hours in over 50 years according to my parents.
Going on 7 days without power and heat. Friends participated in a convoy to deliver food, clothes, and batteries to Staten Island. Cooked up some darkness pasta for the effort.
Jag
1600
This (hopefully) was a once in a generation type of storm due to the confluence of events.
