Storm Warnings For Sandy

The wind is light over the rooftops of Fort Greene, as the city prepares for Hurricane Sandy's landfall late Monday night. Mayor Bloomberg has announced the closure of the MTA's subways and buses at 7PM on Sunday night to prevent people getting stranded by the storm surges into low-lying flood plains such as the Rockaways and Lower Manhattan. Governor Christie closed the casinos in AC and the presidential candidates had cancelled all appearances on the East Coast. Even worse are meteorological predictions of this storm meeting up with an arctic cold front from Canada and a Nor'easter from the Atlantic to trifecta into a duplication of 1991's Perfect Storm. During that Halloween Nor'easter ships sunk at sea and the tides rose to inundate the FDR Drive. My good friend Tim and I went out to Long Beach to surf the next day and we confronted by a savage sea filled with houses. "Acres and acres of unbridled hell," one local surfer call the ocean. None of us attempted to master the chaos. Jsut last week I had been thinking that this year's hurricane season had been easy. Sandy may prove me wrong. I'm going out to buy food for three days; tuna, bread, butter et al. The hurricane is still far to the south. It won't stay there, so be prepared for the worst.