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Date: November 15, 2012 at 15:47:05
From: burnedmyrrh, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Aftermath Sandy; more stories |
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A girl I work with was telling me about her TS Sandy experience. LET THIS BE A LESSON TO ALL OF US!
She said her BUILDING IS CONDEMNED UNTIL MARCH 2013! She had to rent a furnished place to stay until then, if then they will allow the tenants to go back in. They allowed her to go back to get some basic things and some clothes BUT ONLY WHAT SHE COULD CARRY HERSELF! She went up and down 4 times ... to her 30th floor apartment!
Freakin' h^ll!
The lesson for us in this is:
IF YOU HAD ANY TYPE OF DISASTER IN YOUR AREA, WOULD YOU HAVE ENOUGH $$$ TO LAST 6 MONTHS?
AND DO YOU HAVE A BUG OUT BAG READY? I CANNOT EMPHASIZE HOW VERY IMPORTANT THAT IS!!!
Also, I saw that building with the crane on 57th Street up close on Monday. It is a beautiful building with very modern art deco type of decoration, and right across from Carnegie Hall. The base of the crane is still attached to the support that comes all the way down to the street and they seem to have taken at least one of the arms and I could see part of it from street level. It's laid down on top of the building. So I assume they finally attached it to the building. And the dangling part is gone.
However ... there might be another Nor' Easter coming up next week and the crane on top of 1 WTC is still there. They didn't take it down but at least from what I heard a construction worker say, this one was left unlocked and it could swing in the strong wind.
On another note, something I felt today that freaked me a bit. Sometime around 2pm, I felt this shaking on the floor of our Trading Room. It was as if someone had rapped our floor from underneath and considering we're in the area of the flooding ... I was wondering about it. I'll keep you posted.
Still having trouble getting back to normal with computer programs at work and my sign-ons etc. Something good to do at your work place is to have a sheet with all the programs, like online expense programs etc. with the sign-ons and passwords and who to contact for each one. That way when you return after the emergency, you can contact those people immediately even if just a phone call, but it helps.
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Date: November 15, 2012 at 18:32:48
From: ny, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Aftermath Sandy; more stories |
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Although aesthetics are generally a personal matter,
I would have to say that the 'building with the crane' on 57th street is an ugly piece of crap.
It is NINETY stories tall. NINETY. The penthouse apartment sold (in an unfinished building) for more than
90 million dollars last summer. The most expensive apartment ever sold in NYC.
The building is completely out of scale with the rest of the block- and the rest of the street-blowing away the genteel sophistication that marked West 57th St for a little more than 100 years.>
Blech. Its pretentious garbage.
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Date: November 18, 2012 at 17:26:02
From: burnedmyrrh, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Aftermath Sandy; Long Beach, NY |
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Here's what a friend shared about going to Long Beach, Long Island. She does deliveries and this was only the 2nd time after Sandy that she went there to touch base with her clients. Some of her clients won't need deliveries starting until next Summer. When your paycheck depends upon your clients, you can imagine right!!
Well, she said there are dumpsters everywhere filled with all kinds of things. Stores like the Gap, Children's Place have dumpsters in front of the stores filled with merchandise to be carried out by trucks. In one store they were using a small lift to just lift stuff and then the arm of it dumping it into the dumpsters.
Also police is all around to make sure that people don't take those clothes or any of damaged merchandise that the stores are throwing out. It's forbidden to do so.
One of the restaurants she delivers to, the guy has TO THROW EVERYTHING OUT INCLUDING THE STOVES! Now, these are commercial stoves. Last time I checked the price of something like that, they cost $16,000 each. Imagine 2 of those stove tops and ovens ... and you can do the math.
That area of stores, had water up to the ceiling. They have to destroy whatever is still up from all of the walls and start anew.
My friend said everything looked like a war zone! She was stunned at the destruction which she didn't really see the first time cs she didn't go to all her clients and there was a lot of sand covering a lot of the streets. So she hadn't ventured. But she said it shocked her to see the state of things!
So they won't get back to 'normal' AT LEAST UNTIL SUMMER 2013 season ... and it's a beach town right on the water or at least the main strip of stores is a few blocks from the water.
I figured I'd share ... Also heard a woman at the hairdresser saying that the bridge she had gone over collapsed after she had just driven over it. So, I don't know where that was but it had to be Long Island and we have all kinds of small bridges, from stone ones over the highways to smaller ones over water by the South Shore beaches to private ones on the islands close to the North Shore. There are private islands there and very small bridges like a few yards long.
And I've seen streets today where the trees are still mounded up outside the sidewalks and nothing has been done yet. So, I can only say that there is so much damage that has to be fixed that chopped trees are hardly a priority.
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Date: November 19, 2012 at 10:37:14
From: BSE, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Aftermath Sandy; Long Beach, NY |
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At November 18, 2012 at 17:26:02, burnedmyrrh wrote:
Well, she said there are dumpsters everywhere filled with all kinds of things. Stores like the Gap, Children's Place have dumpsters in front of the stores filled with merchandise to be carried out by trucks. In one store they were using a small lift to just lift stuff and then the arm of it dumping it into the dumpsters.
Also police is all around to make sure that people don't take those clothes or any of damaged merchandise that the stores are throwing out. It's forbidden to do so.
Personal Opinion: That is so damn stupid and ludicrous, i.e., the last paragraph about being forbidden, there are hundreds if not thousands of people that could probably use those clothing items, .... load them in a truck, send them to a commercial laundry, and distribute them to the needy, ... and business can take a positive tax write off instead of one for damaged goods.
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Date: November 18, 2012 at 17:34:14
From: burnedmyrrh, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Aftermath Sandy; Long Beach, NY |
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ny,
You're right about the building being out of synch with the whole neighborhood. It DOES STAND OUT! Very different! I mean Carnegie Hall is dwarfed by it and so is the building and hotel in front of it. But you're 'ny' so you know how it is here.
The only good thing is that it's NOT another Trump building pissing off the neighborhood residents!
And I sincerely CANNOT fathom buying a $90 million apartment EVER ... The real estate in this town is out of control for sure ... but still, there's someone with enough $$$$ to buy it.
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