Post Hurricane Sandy Photos in Midtown, election

We lost power here Monday night of Hurricane precisely at 8:30 p.m. I know because

 I had just started to eat a banana and had just glanced at the time...

Power company had called me earlier (robot call) and told me to shut off all major 
appliances, except refrigerator (do not unplug!)-- I even unplugged my computer from 
power surge strip after shutting if off, just as I had unplugged the TV.

Was able to get more batteries for my flashlight, luckily (later)..
and still had gas and running water after power failed. However, I already also had a 
bathtub full of water so I used that to flush following the Los Angeles motto ( "If 
it's yellow, it's mellow, if it's brown, flush it down).

Pain came when it got cold and of course no heat because boiler relies on electric 

turn on. Slept with my clothes and down jacket on under some blankets and just

 felt cold in my feet because I was nervous...

Power was promised by Bloomberg to be on Friday night by Midnight. Went

 downstairsthen to talk to woman working here and also other people who had 

come down. She had a battery powered radio. We heard how power was coming on,

 section by section, starting with the lowest tip of Manhattan. By Midnight

 still no power and it was obvious we would be last little piece in jigsaw puzzle.

I was lighting my gas stove with a cigarette lighter I had bought at little deli without 
power ( was later able to get kitchen matches--glad for these because I kept burning 

my fingers lighting gas using lighter!)

Woman working here on Friday night summed it up neatly, "Dammit, I am getting 

TIRED of it being so dark all the time."

Power and heat came on some time early Saturday morning. I woke up about 6 p.m. 

and saw clock radio time flashing as well as flashing answering machine ( answering

 machine HELL to reset I don't know why they make it so damn complicated).

But SO SO lucky compared to scores of thousands of people in NY-NJ-CT area, so 

manyof whom lost their homes or stayed despite being told to leave and then 

still stayed aslong as they could to flooded houses...

Many scores of thousands around here still without power as I write this. They have 

been pumping out subway tunnels since right after storm flooded them but not 

all lines were back for some time..and of course people still tried to get to work 

anyway they could ( some of the auto tunnels were flooded , too, including 

the Midtown one just north of me, which was supposedly built never to flood! 

Some planning goof there, huh? Actually, I believe Climate change is just setting 

us up for more and more unprecedented storms like this).

Oh yeah, had canned food and peanut butter and bottled water ( boiled water for 

endless cups of instant coffee) and then found out on my travels that power 

NEVER WENT OFF just five blocks North of here..so supermarkets open 

there and restocking withnew food immediately except for bottled water.

Attaching just a dozen of Post-Hurricane photos ( self explanatory, I think, like the 
one of people from no-power zone trying to get to work in power-on zone and 

stoppingfor coffee anywhere they could) etc.

We got off so lightly here, really, I can't complain ( but of course I do).

Our elevator went out and then went whacky when power came back on. Will 

probably require someone from Power company to fix it ( electrician who was 

supposed to comeyesterday never made it today either I noticed).

Yeah, I am happy with election just because of all the time I put in as Obama 

volunteer ( including afternoon shift at phone bank on election day. Obama was

 rightwhen he said he won because of small donations ( I made a lot of them,

 includingthese women Senate candidates who were running against Rape-nut

 case remark Tea Party fools

...the Dem women all won! Only gave $20 to Obama himself but figured that was

 in line with what they were asking for ,,,millions of small donations.

All these people from NYC (and State) also took all these buses to Ohio and

 Pennsylvania for weeks before election and also were there on election day

 to get out the vote...every last one we could identify.

Happy but numb about all politics even though Obama website keeps sending

 me messages and telling me to stay ready for more action. 

What could they have in mind?

I am  so tired of politics I do not even care about the "fiscal cliff"-- screw

 Boehner and intransigent Republicans, country will survive. There WAS 

a mandate for richer people paying their fare share.

HA HA to Koch Bros. and other plutocrats who spent hundreds of millions of 

dollars and believed all of Karl Rove's usual nonsense. They are mad as hell

 at Rove, who will just blame someone/something else for his own stupidity.

My best wishes to all who are still suffering, --hope things improve for you soon!