Heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee . . .
Mebbe we could get the Eye-raqis in here to do a regime change for us . . .
Then you'd all have to learn Arabic and ride around on Camels instead of smoking them.
I don't think i could give up my Camels . . . mebbe i'd hafta go unnerground . . .
Well if you have a nice Chesterfield to sit on you could Strike Lucky
We have several east-coasters on A2K. Have we heard from bree or nextone yet? Who else is on the East Coast?
I am, but luckily (knocking on wood, yet again) Boston is safe. Seems that eastern bits of CT,MA and VT were also blacked or browned out.
Up late yesterday and then up since 4AM trying to get hubby a hotel and out out of JFK. He is now finally sitting on the runway in Newark waiting to come home! (His flight was at 4 yesterday and thats when the lights went out! He missed taking off by minutes!) All done by e-mail. No phones!
Yes, of course, y'all were mighty lucky in Boston!
Wow, that's awful, fealola. So he spent the night in the airport? Or did you find him a room?
While Canada and the US blame each other for the blackout, I'm certain it all started in the US Midwest, at a nuclear plant. The culprit is Homer Simpson.
Roberta is a New Yorker, and so is Joe Nation, I think.
He got the last room near the airport at a hotel with no lights.
Guys were in the hall with flashlights all night! People sleeping in the lobby and conferance rooms etc.
Got the last seat on a flight out of Newark. Just waiting to see if he took off!.
It's a long boring story, really, well my end at least! He did have a celebrity sighting though of a pretty big name person who was in the same situation as all the commoners in this non-fancy hotel! Tease, tease...
Maybe we should play 20 questions?
Here in the metropolitan New York area, it's been spotty. My New York City daughter works out of her home frequently, so she only had five flights to contend with (she usually ignores the elevator anyway). However, she still doesn't (as of noon Friday) have electricity, although she has water, and intermittent phone service. My son and family were flying back to Newark, NJ airport, and were told on the plane that they would be able to land, but that no flights were taking off. They called from the airport, and said flying over large, dark areas was scary.
We were, apparently, very lucky. The news kept saying that large parts of the area we live in expected to have power back today, but we were only off about an hour, but with flickering extending past that. And NYC was amazing. Little panic, subways evacuated, no looting.
And Fox News is still off the air.
HA! You took the bait! If anybody wants to know who it is, they'll have to play Initials/20 questions game! The next time It's my turn I'll give the initials. Hee. Hee.
The news has not been accurate about the airports at all.
Forgot - On the new last night, it was announced that George Bush had decided to skip any message to, or visit to NYC. He decided to go o his two fundraisers in LA. When asked about VP Dick Cheney, it was announced that it was thought he was on vacation in Wyoming. So Andrew Card was the designated hitter, although certainly the NY area has yet to hear from him.
This was declared a state of emergency in several key states - but the fundraisers were more imporatnt to Bush. What a guy!
Thanks for wondering about me, mac. I'm happy to report that I'm safe in my apartment, where the power came back at about 6 this morning. It took me over 2 hours to walk home from my office yesterday, which was no fun in 90-degree weather, but at least I was wearing comfortable shoes (unlike poor ehBeth), and at least I made it home last night, unlike the many unfortunate suburbanites who were stranded in the city.
Probably the scariest part of the trip (apart from the few crazed drivers who decided that the absence of streetlights was a license to drive as carelessly as they felt like) was when I finally got to my apartment building, and discovered that the staircase was pitch dark because the backup lights that that are supposed to light the staircase in the event of a blackout weren't working. I don't know how I would have gotten up to my apartment on the 10th floor if a nice neighbor who had a flashlight, and who was on his way to the 4th floor, hadn't agreed to walk me up to the 10th floor.
I spent the evening sitting in the dark, listening to NPR on a transistor radio, to the background of live music played on the French horn (I think) by someone I couldn't see, but who sounded like he was just outside my building. (There are a lot of professional musicians who live in this neighborhood, so maybe one of them just decided to pass the time by giving his neighbors a free concert.) The local NPR station (WNYC) had lost their backup power about an hour into the blackout, so they were broadcasting over a telephone from an office lit only by flashlights. The telephone line made the reception kind of scratchy, which made the whole thing feel kind of like listening to one of Edward R. Murrow's broadcasts during the Blitz. (I'm not actually old enough to remember what that was like, so I may be off base about it, but that's what I've always imagined those broadcasts sounded like.)
bree, I'm glad you're home and safe and the power's back on!
