Hurricane Sandy

[Yoyoma1910]

Hurricanes are a good time to get your drinky drink on.

[Chaotix]

Just got back to university, but for the past few days I've been without internet and power due to this storm.

So... it's good to be back, I guess. In Staten Island at least a large portion of the houses are still without power; my family's house lights came back on just a few hours after I left.

New York looks pretty bad in general. Trees were down everywhere, sometimes with live power lines at street level. If you go down to what used to be the marina there are boats and yachts just sitting on people's lawns. There are very few gas stations still running, and those that are open are packed with people trying to get gas for their cars or their backup generators.

The Manhattan subways were flooded, but I think that's about the worst they got. Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island seem to have taken the most real damage.

Don't know much about the Jersey shore besides the fact that the boardwalk is gone and there's massive power outages as well.

On the bright side, power companies and the city gov. seem to be doing their utmost to get everything running again.