Stay safe everyone!! Thank God it didn't hit Florida that bad... we just had some rain, that's all. Some of my friends in NY and NJ are telling me about the storm and it sounds SCARY! A tree broke down and fell on two cars that belongs to my friend's family!!
Hopefully this storm doesn't do TOO much damage and ends soon!
Thankfully I live in western NY. Wont be feeling anything terrible till about Wednesday, but were only expecting typical storms. I hope everybody out in NYC, NJ, and all the other coastal regions are okay <33
I've had no power since 7pm last night, but considering that I have friends on Facebook posting pictures if their destroyed houses, I'm not going to complain. If I have to subsist on canned foods, protein bars, nuts, and eggs for a while I will... At least my house is here and my family is safe.
How terrible. Prayers for all of you on the East coast. I am a little further west from you in KY and although we have some wind and a rain it doesn't even come close to what you guys are going through. Stay safe.
A friend of mine in Minnesota post on fb that there were a black out at some points in the morning, luckily just for 3 hours. Stay safe, guys and gals, best wishes to all of you.
Thank you to everyone here for your well wishes.... Let me just say that the pictures people might be seeing, really don't do it justice... The devastation here is really overwhelming... Right now I can't even imagine how we are going to clean up this mess...
Right now I'm just grateful that no one in my family was hurt... because on Monday night I really was actually scared for our lives... and I know that many people were not as fortunate...
i dodged a serious bullet. my power only flickered a little, and remained on for the duration. seems like all places around me have no power.. it's spotty. no flooding, no trees in my living room. i am truly blessed.
I'm incredibly stressed out about all of this right now.
Many of my friends still don't have power. A good chunk of them are stuck in the Rockaways where it's getting cold and they were hit hard. People want to help but we're all afraid of using gas to get there because of the way things are. Every gas station I see has lines miles long.
I filled up before the storm and I thank the stars I have a Prius. The gas will last me longer but I'm going to have to get more eventually. What happens if I can't and I can't get to work? But still, I feel stuck. I want to help my friends. I've opened up my home to them but they can't get here! I can't go and help them!
The most I've done is bring my old clothes to a coffee shop taking donations for people in Long Beach. I wanted to donate blood but the line was six hours long (and no, I'm not exaggerating). At least I had an abundance of old clothes that I could give away.
My family is running low on gas in the cars (except for mine) and we were briefly stressing out about how to get my younger brother to school. The school was going to open when the buses were iffy about running and we didn't have enough gas to get him to school. However, they've decided to open on Wednesday instead.
NYC schools are open for the most part starting tomorrow, but I just can't get in the right frame of mind to start teaching again (not to mention the difficulties I've been having with my job before all of this happened).
I'm lucky my house is here and my family is ok, I know. I still feel like curling into a ball and crying though. They expect us to just jump back into work right after all of this and I just can't. I need to ease into it. I'd much rather be off helping my friends and loved ones who need it.
My only solace right now is that both of my gyms are open again. I know I'm using precious gas going to both of them, but they're very close to my house. I need my sanity and lifting and spin classes are the only way I'm staying sane.
