No electricity from the muddy banks of the Cayahouga to the outskirts of Wilmington, DL, to the manicured lawns of suburban Conn. to the wilds of Onterio. Some 50 millions of good folks without electricity. Darkness approaching. But its not all bad news. Consider:
We can post political balderdash on General Questions and Manhatten, the moderator, not the bough, is powerless to strike it down with his terrible swift sward of correct posting . He is rendered impotent.
Our friend December, the grouch of New Jersey, the running dog of the Republican National Committee, is without a voice. We lefty pinko my post away on stuff directly and overtly critical of the present Administration without looking over our shoulder for a convoluted response from somewhere in the Pine Barrens.
In Brooklyn there were children in the street looking up and asking their parents “What’s that?”
In Hicksville, there was a lady desperatly trying her card at the bank door. I don’t think she fully understood what a power outtage entails.
I hear the President gave a speech. Not too many people in the NY area heard it. Was it any good?
The only very bad thing (as opposed to just annoying) was the fact that it took me 7 hours to get home to Brooklyn from Hicksville. But even that had a silver lining since I only had to walk the last 5 or 6 miles from the East New York depot to home. How I wished I had sneakers on.
Actually it was a lovely moonlit night. I except I’ll never see NYC streets lit my moonlight again.
My power just came back on. I’m pretty annoyed at the local TV stations and Bloomberg. I happened to have a battery-operated TV and there was no useful information, just interviews with people complaining. Bloomberg claimed the power would be on last night and it wasn’t. This afternoon he claimed that power had been restored in all but a couple of small neighborhoods and we were still blacked out. You’d think the mayor would try to keep on top of these things.
