I'm a Survivor

It's hard to describe what we've been through the last four days. We're trying to focus on the positive. We, luckily, have a second floor apartment that’s higher than the surge level so it's clean and dry. We have no power and a basement that was flooded so the heating, hot water, and electricital components are destroyed. It's gonna be a while.

 We are so blessed to have such wonderful neighbors and friends. The two couples upstairs and us have been sticking together and doing as much as we can for each other. We were invited over for a hot meal at a friend of a friend’s house last night which was great. We also have friends who are traveling until November 12th and donated their high-rise apartment to our neighbors and us while they're gone. So, we now have a place to shower, cook, and thaw out from time to time.

Jen and I are trying to figure out when it's appropriate to even try to get to work. Jen's downtown work neighborhood is a big, wet, mess and the part of Brooklyn I work in would take me almost three hours to get to by bus (because there are no trains running there) and that's not including insane traffic and delays. I plan on going to work at the restaurant on Saturday night. I think the N train is running there... worst case scenario I ride my bike over the 59th street bridge. That would actually be the quickest method of getting places no matter where you're going at this point.

 Below are some videos I found on Youtube of our neighborhood under water. In the first video the white building down the street on the left (before the large green building) is ours. In the second video is footage of the flooding around the high-rises closer to the water. The water got much higher than what’s shown. The building you can see across the street is actually the one we’re living out of right now.