We guess this is what flooding is, but photos that reached
our Mac way before dawn this morning made it seem more like whole sections of New
York City had simply turned into sea bottom.
Outside the New York Stock Exchange, a number of blocks inland, and
slightly uphill, from the East River, Broad Street had been covered in three or
four feet of water. Rockaway was just car
tops and rubble sticking out of the Atlantic Ocean, and law enforcement could be seen staging inflatable boats all over Manhattan because that would soon become the only way to get around.
All our lives, hurricanes had been associated with the word,
tropical, and now the folks at the Weather Channel looked embarrassed
explaining no, winds really increase because of differing temperature levels,
not warm oceans, so that an Arctic mass colliding with a northbound Frankenstorm Sandy, plus whatever else is going on up there right now, could theoretically produce destructive wind speeds as this monster pressed on all the
way up to MONTREAL and QUEBEC CITY.
WTF.
We don't want to see
the mess TV is going to bring us in the AM.
Whatever comes on, it’ll be like watching the Science Fiction Channel instead of national news. Already, science fact is way more terrifying
than science fiction.
