Like Taking Sandy from a Baby

First, let me apologize for that terrible pun of a title. Couldn't resist. Other ones that didn't make the cut were Sandystorm, Sandyland, Sandy before Time, and Fucking Hurricane Yo. I think living in the darkness for too long may be having an effect on my mental health.
Anyways, I was reading through the blog posts and thinking that I had no updates to add, when I remembered that there actually was just a big ass hurricane that came through and New York is actually pretty crazy at the moment, so here goes.
We had our Phoenix-NYC dinner on Saturday, so a bunch of people (Popp, Evan, Robbie, Harrington, Farnsworth, and Chloe, but she still is more of an honorary member) were in town for the weekend. We drank lots of beers, engaged in a lot of shenanigans, and it was awesome. Not too many crazy stories that I can think of at the moment. Damn Eduardo didn't come. Actually not sure if he's allowed back in the U.S. anymore... Everyone made it out fine, and then I kind of realized that this hurricane was actually going to be bringing the noise, so I made the necessary grocery store run. I think a grocery store the night before a hurricane is my least favorite place in the world. There are just so many people and they are all freaking out and trying to get the same things. The entire bread aisle and all the peanut butters were cleared out, so I just got a lot of random stuff and some wine and beer, the true hurricane essentials. When Chloe found out school was cancelled for her, she just stayed. We walked around a few hours before the full force of the storm hit, and my professional opinion was that it was pretty fucking windy. It was really bizarre walking around Manhattan when there was nobody outside and no cars on the road though. We lost power at about dinner time, but it wasn't a big deal because I have a gas stove and oven and we still had water. The next day we woke up, still had no power, and now neither of us had cell service because the cell towers must have gotten knocked out. Of course I don't have a radio because I like the moving pictures better, so we had no idea what the hell was going on in the world. Sooo we went for a walk down to the south end of the island, and the world was losing its mind. Everywhere below 40th street had no power, there was almost no cell service, and there were tree limbs or full trees down all over the place. So none of the stores were open (obviously) and none of the stoplights worked. Especially at dusk it felt like I was in I am Legend or the Day after Tomorrow with the buildings all dark and the streets empty. It's super eery walking around at night because it's pitch black and you feel like you're going to get jumped at any second.
And Chloe and I found a live turkey just walking on the sidewalk Tuesday afternoon. No idea where it came from. It was random and awesome. Except both our phones were of course dead so we couldn't take a picture. And I was too scared to capture it to either keep as a pet or eat. His (her?) beak looked sharp.
I had to go to work on Wednesday and today despite having no power because it is uptown where they have power (I mean I guess it's good that hospitals are open, but I definitely would not want to get my ACL repaired if I didn't have any power at my house). So I ran 5 miles to work, at 6:00 (because all public transportation was closed), which is not ideal but also not as bad as it sounds. And then last night Kevin's dad got a hotel room in Times Square because it's getting cold as balls in our apartments, so Chloe and I stayed with him and Jessie. Things got wild.
Anyways, clearly there isn't too much going on at work today. Miss you fools. Andrea, can a brother get some noticias???