…to catch a bus, on 42nd Street, going out of the City, the lines are a City block long, the long side of the block. And it is dark and cold and today snowing! The lines at the subway for the trains that are running. The first line of a conversation, heard repeatedly, “so how …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
The Effects continued…
…Students who can’t get to classes in the City because they don’t have a car and there is no public transportation. One student who did make it explained how his life had changed during the power outage. He and his girlfriend spoke about things they never have the time to talk about in their busy …
More Gas
HilaryH suggested that gasoline is also being diverted to run the generators. And the generators are so necessary for families with children against the cold, and hospitals and nursing homes and for the mcmansions that have to keep every room like it is all the time… sorry, that slipped in.
Didn’t Think of This
Shortage of gasoline for cars. Took a ride out of the City and saw long, long lines at the gas stations on the NJ Turnpike. The reason: there was not enough gasoline available because the local pump was dry due to no delivery or was completely inoperative. Now a couple of days later, in town, …
There Is Light
Nothing like it. The flip of a switch and there’s illumination. Electricity is restored to my little corner of the world. As I enthuse, let me not forget to remember and aid those still in the dark.
The Walmart of Sandy
Street Scenes
A once busy street is now quiet – mid morning. This is the route of the M20 bus. The street never flooded. The second picture is further up the street. Under the awning notice the coffee shop patrons collected outside. No electricity. All coffee is now being made via gas stoves and machines attached to …
Smart
The small blue stickers read, NYC drinking water. This is a cart on wheels with 6 spigot
The Inexplicable
The M20 bus runs North all the way from Tribeca on Hudson St and then 8th Avenue to 59th and Columbus Circle, in the dark of night. Concurrently the M11 travels South on 9th Avenue. Inexplicably the chauffeur of the southbound M11 announces, somewhere around 34th St, that the last stop for the bus is …
Tuesday
Tuesday. Did not rise with the dawn, but with a knock on the door by one of the neighbors. The electricity and cell are still out and the radio is bringing news of all sorts of disasters. Of course those in the group that were fanatic TV watchers were completely deprived of all visuals that …