storm preparedness

DNAinfo caption: "Flooding along the East River waterfront on the Lower East Side as Hurricane Sandy barreled toward New York on Monday, Oct.

Photo by Mitch Waxman (click to enlarge)"[S]ome jerk pulling the pin on a dud hand grenade while riding on the 7 train would be sufficient to shut the entire Subway system down for weeks while the Terror Warriors installed metal detectors and biometric sensors on every turnstile."-- from Mitch's blogpost yesterday, "all signs"by KenI don't know about you, but I need this weekend.

-- cover by Bruce McCall: "Moving Day" [Click to enlarge]"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."-- Sun-tzu"There's no goniff like a left-wing goniff."-- Calvin Trillin repertory kibbitzer Harold the Committedby KenSince this is a New York story, I thought it would be a good time to present the February 2 New Yorker cover commemorating the magazine's historic decamping from Times Square to Manhattan's nether regions and the new World Trade Center tower.

"We'd love to come, but the weathermongers have paralyzed us with fear."

Noah sent along this reminder of four young men who didn't let a little snow get them down.by KenHere in the Northeast today has been sort of like a shorter version of the weekend we spent back when waiting for Hurricane Sandy to bear down on us. We knew it was coming, and it was likely to be bad, but in the meantime the weather, while hardly salutary, shouldn't by itself have prevented life from proceeding normally.

Blacked-out lower Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, looking northeast, with the tower of the Empire State Building poking up in the backgroundby KenIt's an anniversary that has been looming ominously for, well, going on a year.As it happened, yesterday I was in New Jersey's "Mile-Square City" of Hoboken, on the mostly flatland lip of land below the southern end of the bluffs that rise above the state's Hudson River shoreline, on a wonderful 5½-hour