So, Irene seems to have been and gone! Well, in New York at least, she's now making her way up to New England but she seems to have calmed down a bit.
Luckily the storms weren't as bad as they could have been, there was some flooding in Brooklyn and Manhattan and there have been a lot of trees blown down, but the waters are subsiding, the rain has stopped and the wind seems to be dying down a lot.
The hurricane got down-graded to a tropical storm, but there were then tornado warnings around the city and then in upstate New York there was a little earthquake!
It's great that no major major damage has been done, but we're both feeling a bit short-changed almost - it sounds like an odd thing to say, but it was all a bit of an anti-climax, in Bedstuy at least.
It was amazing seeing the shots of an empty Grand Central Station and Times Square and it was exciting watching the news and being here when it all happened. I think there'll still be some disruption in the following couple of days, waiting for the roads, bridges and tunnels to reopen and waiting for the subways to get up and running again - but I'm sure New York will be back to normal before long.
It's great that no major major damage has been done, but we're both feeling a bit short-changed almost - it sounds like an odd thing to say, but it was all a bit of an anti-climax, in Bedstuy at least.
It was amazing seeing the shots of an empty Grand Central Station and Times Square and it was exciting watching the news and being here when it all happened. I think there'll still be some disruption in the following couple of days, waiting for the roads, bridges and tunnels to reopen and waiting for the subways to get up and running again - but I'm sure New York will be back to normal before long.
We're going to have some celebratory Hurrican Hotdogs for lunch!
And what a relief that is!! So, you've got some snacks still to eat...
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