Whew.

I admit to being highly skeptical of the hurricane's likely impact, but then I could afford to be, given that my building was in this little bubble on a hill in the middle of Manhattan where none of the worst of wind or water was going to affect me. I didn't stock up on food--hell, I even ordered delivery! Twice! I mostly spent the weekend ignoring the outdoors and being bored because, blase about the weather or not, I wasn't about to venture out into it.

I knew, however, that it would be bad, and moonlightalice was scouring the news and finding the worst of it. I also knew that my parents would be having a way worse time of things than I ever could.( They really need not to store stuff in the basement. )

We got lucky in New York, that's a certainty. People are even able to go to work, though that was never an issue for me as I bike, the ride is right through still more areas that were never flooded, and it's a beautiful day outside for it. I'm glad the mayor and governor overreacted, though I wish more thought had been spared the suburbs as they seem to have had as hard a time of it as any.