Here I am! Rock You Like A Hurricane!

Since moving here I've been hit by a tornado, several days of blizzard, an earthquake, and now a hurricane. All within a 12-month period. I'm starting to take it personally.

stewart said:

Since moving here I've been hit by a tornado, several days of blizzard, an earthquake, and now a hurricane. All within a 12-month period. I'm starting to take it personally.

Have you thought about moving indoors? It makes life much more pleasant.

Step 1 to remaining sane:

Realize that the radio, TV and internet all focus on the worst things that happen during such a storm. If you are prone to anxiety, turn these things off.

If winds are as forecast, we can expect to shut down entire system for a period of time.

-MTA chairman Jay Walder

I predict the NYC area will have less than 10 deaths.

Five of them will be Darwin inspired.

Between now and Monday:

1. To test out his new SUV, a guy will drive it through standing water he thinks is "pretty deep". It will be several feet deep; he will drown.

2. Mid storm, a man will become pissed off that his Direct TV has stopped working, and he can not view his porn on pay-per-view. He will climb on the the roof of his suburban house to "fix the dish". He will fall off the roof.

3. Someone will be hit by a falling branch while going to purchase more beer/liquor/weed/crack.

4. Someone's basement will seriously flood, causing the circuit breakers to blow. The owner will be electrocuted as they swim over to the fuse box to turn the power back on.

5. After losing power, someone will burn down their house by using candles they have positioned on top of newspapers.

http://youtu.be/VNDd75IeMRU

Dumb people who will live:

1. Despite being without power for only 2 hours, someone will decide to burn charcoal in their garage to cook a burger. They will be sick, but live.

2. Having lost power for 2 days, someone will decide to eat meat items from their freezer without cooking them first. They will be sick, but live.

3. A motorcycle rider will crash in the storm, but live.

4. For some reason, storms make people buy incredible amounts of milk. Not wanting the milk to go bad, someone will drink all of the milk and vomit.

5. Someone will decide that all of the banks will be destroyed and tell all of the people in line for the teller that they are stupid for not withdrawing all of their money. One of the people in line will mug him after he leaves the bank.

6. Someone will get locked in their Safe Room.

7. Someone will annoy their housemate/relative so much by talking about the "end of the world" that their mouth is duct taped shut by said roommate/relative.

8. In the process of installing plywood to their homes, several people will "nail gun" or "screw gun" their hand.

9. A TV reporter will be hit by a flying object while looking into the camera and loudly exclaiming "the storm has made it really windy out!"

10. At this very moment, a guy who not watched the news in 2 weeks has taken tomorrow off to spend the weekend sailing to Delaware. He will leave tomorrow morning and be incredibly rescued by the Coast Guard on Sunday.

Saw neighbors tying down strollers. I hope Starbucks isn't boarded up.

whynot_31 said:

2. Mid storm, a man will become pissed off that his Direct TV has stopped working, and he can not view his porn on pay-per-view. He will climb on the the roof of his suburban house to "fix the dish". He will fall off the roof.

At least I'll go out with dignity.

I am seriously considering taking my camera out in the storm and just taking random photos.

My friend and I are going to have a "Hurricane Pizza Party." Hopefully a local bar will be open so I can rescue forlorn lasses.

Ok, so even though I live in a high enough place where I'm nowhere near an evacuation zone my mother has now started urging me to take the dog and go up to her place in Morningside Heights for the weekend. She does have a lot more food stashed, as well as a back yard area where I could take the dog out without braving the full street as long as the winds aren't outrageous.

I do fear she has maybe confused a hurricane with a full Zombie Attack since she also pointed out that up there family members have cars if we need to get out of the city.

Even if we get no hurricane the shutting down of the MTA could shut the city down. So, question to absolute strangers, do I take the hound, fetus, and significant other up to Manhattan to spend the weekend there?

It should be noted that normally I would be all "Yay, a storm, how thrilling". But in my current enceinte state I am far more cautious than I would be otherwise.

Whynot,

I think it's mostly the latter. Especially with the MTA shutting down she doesn't want us trapped in Brooklyn come what may. Her general belief is that this appears to be an active storm and it's best to have family close, especially when one of those family members is a master at finding food sales, and therefore has tons of food (her significant other).

I think she is also more protective of my current state. I don't find her generally to be an alarmist. That said, we haven't seen each other in a while and she did also mention it would be nice to spend a weekend together.