President Obama has been such a monumental disaster that he’s already had like a thousand “Katrinas” during his presidency. It’s becoming hard to keep track of all the important ones.
Here is a quick reference list of all the major Katrinas that have occurred so far during Obama’s term. Continue reading
Hello and welcome to the first Thursday of April. Continue reading
It was often hard to remember, but I was one of the lucky ones. Very lucky ones, in fact.
My sole issue was that I didn’t have power. While I did have a generator for keeping my fridge cold and sump pumps working, it did not connect to my hardwired furnace. So the house was bone chillingly cold. So cold that despite having power and heat for over 18 hours now, I cannot shake the shiver in my bones. Steaming baths, hot showers and a trip to my health club’s sauna have not helped. Still, I know how lucky I am. Continue reading
The madness has subsided. We’re safe and comfortable, which I realize is more than I can say for a lot of people in New Jersey, Queens, and elsewhere. We were far from the worst of it, I know. But I figured I might as well set everything down now before it washes away like so many trees and debris.
I would hope that those of my friends who thought it was ‘all a bunch of hype, just like Irene’ are now sufficiently chastened. But I don’t think even those of us who took it seriously expected something on this scale. As of Monday evening I was envisioning something like the following: staying in while drinking wine and eating all the snacks we’d stocked up on and playing Settlers of Catan by candlelight until the power went back on in a day or so, at which point we’d switch to watching movies until the subways came back in another day or so and I no longer had an excuse to stay home from work. Continue reading
Here, you can post your information/worries/concerns/bitches about this damn hurricane. So far as we know in NYC, the MTA will shut down at 7 pm tonight and they are expecting even higher surges than previously predicted, Zone A is being evacuated and the schools will shut down tomorrow. Continue reading
