Hurricane Sandy on the move
Monday, October 29th, 2012 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
Bucket of water for flushing: check. Batteries and flashlight: check. Stash of candles and matches: check. Gas stove/oven: check. Fridge turned down to coldest setting: check. Milk frozen to a predictable slush: check (our fridge has definite cold spots).
I am told that the power lines in Manhattan are mostly underground, so we should actually be pretty good -- unless the power station downtown gets flooded out!
Nevertheless, school's closed preemptively today, and indeed until further notice, as we will follow the NYC public schools. Transit closed last night at 7pm, which meant we made the disappointing-but-prudent choice to skip our dinner plans on the Lower East Side, and stayed home. And I made tortilla casserole and pumpkin muffins (actually pumpkin-cranberry-walnut-white-chip muffins, brought to you entirely by Trader Joe's), and spent time uploading photos to Flickr, and got calls from both my parents making sure that we were safe and prepared and not being evacuated from NYC (we're not -- just the immediate perimeter, and we're pretty far inland).
It's actually all good timing, personally, because I woke up yesterday with the I'm-getting-a-cold sore throat, which turned into sniffles right on cue late last night. So I was in bed by 11 and slept the clock round, which was great.
Right now, it's so quiet here, it's like Christmas. (Literally, not metaphorically.) No rain yet, but the wind has picked up.
I have lots more on my stuff-that-would-be-great-to-get-done agenda for today: some cooking, mostly computer work. This may include a number of catchup LJ entries, so if you're wondering why a sudden spate, that'll be totally why. (And if they don't come, it may well mean the power went out, because guess what, no power = no router = no Internets.)
I also do have to make some updates remotely to the website for work, which -- look! I CAN! So I'm going to go do that for now.
I am told that the power lines in Manhattan are mostly underground, so we should actually be pretty good -- unless the power station downtown gets flooded out!
Nevertheless, school's closed preemptively today, and indeed until further notice, as we will follow the NYC public schools. Transit closed last night at 7pm, which meant we made the disappointing-but-prudent choice to skip our dinner plans on the Lower East Side, and stayed home. And I made tortilla casserole and pumpkin muffins (actually pumpkin-cranberry-walnut-white-chip muffins, brought to you entirely by Trader Joe's), and spent time uploading photos to Flickr, and got calls from both my parents making sure that we were safe and prepared and not being evacuated from NYC (we're not -- just the immediate perimeter, and we're pretty far inland).
It's actually all good timing, personally, because I woke up yesterday with the I'm-getting-a-cold sore throat, which turned into sniffles right on cue late last night. So I was in bed by 11 and slept the clock round, which was great.
Right now, it's so quiet here, it's like Christmas. (Literally, not metaphorically.) No rain yet, but the wind has picked up.
I have lots more on my stuff-that-would-be-great-to-get-done agenda for today: some cooking, mostly computer work. This may include a number of catchup LJ entries, so if you're wondering why a sudden spate, that'll be totally why. (And if they don't come, it may well mean the power went out, because guess what, no power = no router = no Internets.)
I also do have to make some updates remotely to the website for work, which -- look! I CAN! So I'm going to go do that for now.