Our Week in the Dark

These pictures probably won't have that much personal resonance for me until weeks or months from now, when I can look back on the whole experience with some distance and perspective. Right now, like everyone else, I'm just incredibly glad the power, heat and hot water are back on, and my heart goes out to those who are still without.

But, as mentioned in the previous post, here are some of the images from this very long week.

Monday night around 10 p.m.

The apartment

University Place on Tuesday morning..

My little ones on Union Square on Tuesday...

Trudging to midtown in search of warmth, food and supplies. Note super-pleased expressions on my kids' faces from all the walking.

Briefly camping out in a midtown Duane Reade, planning next move. Tuesday afternoon.

Wife and kids in front of the heroic oasis of nourishment that is American Gourmet Foods on 6th Avenue...site of our first hot food. My new favorite deli!

Trees down in Union Square, Friday AM...

Con Ed guys, diligently working Friday evening...

Our main tools of survival this week: Beer, candlelight and my Sing-a-Long-With-Brak transistor radio!

Comments

[DrBOP]

Ok....I'm a little confused (as I'm hearing a chorus from my buddies "So.....what's new":+).....about exactly what I'm looking at in this post.

Either :

A relatively happy and healthy group of New York stalwarts (including the oh-so-cute offspring) braving the elements to re-establish contact with their devastated neighborhood and some kind of outside world; seeking relief from the aftermath of a TRUE Storm Of The Century.

OR.......

A giggling, semi-exhausted troglodite tribal family unit stumbling into the light ; overwhelmed by their strength to bend traffic poles, they raid the Reade for free vittles ; marauding uptown establishments loading up on the essentials of candles, batteries and BEER!

Maybe some WONDERFUL combo of the above filtered through the amazing SOPA (South Of POwer) community spirit that it seems even WHOOO or hurricanes can't kill.

(And really, EXCELLENT mix of pics. We got hit HARD by the Great Ice Storm in the late 90s.....ALWAYS strange to not be able to see down a street for all the fallen trees.)

Keep on chooglin'!

[Metal Dad]

i'm really glad you and yours are all right. i was keeping a good thought for you when i heard about the weather hitting your neck of the woods.

regards,
j.r.

[Alex in NYC]

Cheers, fellas.