it is totally fucking surreal. I just walked TO manhattan today. I
work for a newspaper and we're the last sort of business to close
during this sort of emergency. Very very weird walking over the
queensboro bridge, hordes of people evacuating, flatbed trucks with
dozens of people hitching rides on the back, and that HUGE plume of
smoke coving lower manhattan.
It is well publicized that all air traffic has been grounded, so it
was super freaky to hear a super-sonic jet approaching the bridge as
I was crossing it. turned out it was an american military jet flying
pretty high. so weird...everybody slightly freaked, but still,
basically, in a normal frame of mind, meanwhile this huge evil cloud
in the distance signaling the death of tens of thousands of people.
anyway, so here i sit at work, two blocks from the Empire State
Building (now the tallest building in NYC, I believe)...what with all
the worst case scenarios comiing true today, I half expected to see a
giant gorilla heading west on 33rd st...I suppose I'm more concerned
that it remains the "center of Manhattan" in some nuclear terrorists'
imagination.
glad to be alive, hope you all are too.
k
quoted 6 lines everyone from the ny or dc area please write in to tell that they are ok ->everyone from the ny or dc area please write in to tell that they are ok -
>alot of our friends are there and we cant get in contact with them. right now
>we are near boston - just flew in from pittsburgh last night. everyone stay
>at home!
>hoping nothing else happens - its probably best that noone leaves their
>houses today...
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