Well I ventured out on the NJ roads to replace the glasses I lost in the storm.
It's pretty wild out there, lots and lots and lots of closed roads, lots of flooding.
A trip that generally takes ten minutes took over an hour.
I saw lots of stuff on the TV in the eyeglass store that made me realize how bad it is, lots of buildings under water just a short walk from where my son went to Art School.
It's kind of ironic, since I realized how bad Hurricane Sandy had been when I got to an emergency room where they had power and a TV on.
We did pretty well in my home - my son came through in keeping the water leaking in under control - but we were very lucky I guess.
Our crawl space has a huge puddle, but it's trivial compared with what my fellow New Jersians are suffering.
Climate change is turning out to be a very serious matter here as it appears to be doing everywhere.
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Are you near the shore?
They're only a couple blocks from the East River, but they're in a high-rise building. So as long as they stay out of the subways they'll be OK.
Parts of Staten Island got hit pretty hard!
Aw, thanks for thinking us NYC'rs.
Yeah, the subway really helps us be us. Scary to see the waters gushing down to platform stairs.
The craziest one back from Sandy flooded a double subway line station - th deepest of which was 3-4 stories below.
I haven't seen any thing on that one yet.
They had hardened some stations after Sandy but the amount of rain per hour was too much!
You be safe down there! 
We are below sea level, so the back of the town floods easily. I'm on high ground on the main street, which never floods. Well, this time parts of it did flood and our building's basement had some water. Which means that we're out of hot water for the time being. Supposedly, we're on the "plumber's list", whatever that means. I had to shower with cold water. Luckily it's summer and the water is not freezing. One of my neighbors works for the police dept. She said that they spent the night rescuing people from cars and basement apts. They even had to rescue a guy in his 80s from a car. The car started filling with water, he panicked and had a heart attack. What the heck was he doing out driving in the storm???? The town is only a square mile. They sent emails, texts and called land lines (I got all three) warning about the storm. People are just too stupid to listen.
It's become a very expensive town nowadays. Its working class past is history. They have made many upgrades, but the back of the town still floods. I didn't drive anywhere today, so I don't know what's gong on in the flooded streets, but a friend said that there was lots of debris and belongings along curbs that were being taken out of basements. Her basement had a lot of water and the backyard of her buildings looked like a pond. It'll be a while before the water completely recedes. I was lucky, my building was fine, minus the inconvenience of the water heater being damaged. It'll be another cold shower tomorrow morning. LOL!!
I'm sorry you were hurt during Sandy. We didn't have power for seven days, but since the building where I worked also got flooded, I was able to go to PA and stay at a friend's house until the power was restored.
Feel better!!!
