There I was, minding my own business in the East Village and Hurricane Sandy blows in and destroys the place. Like most of lower Manhattan the East Village got a bit of a dunking but life is pretty much back to normal.
The power was out for 5 days of subtly increasing sketchiness in Alphabet City and suddenly the lights came back on...but still no Verizon internet coverage (and limited blogging) because the Verizon cables were drowned and it seems, weren't very well wrapped up. Time Warner (usually as hopeless as Verizon) came back up in the last week because they mostly use fibre optics and their cables coped better with the swim. My neighbour was good enough to let me slime onto his network - finally, something good comes from Time Warner.
Anyway, even a month later, the insurance companies are still slowly extracting cars that went under and will never work again. Piles of sodden rubbish erupted from cellars that the owners/occupiers/lessees finally got around to emptying. Painful (and expensive) as it was, at least we don't have wholesale condemned notices like parts of the West Side, Staten Island, NJ and the Rockaways. Good luck to all of them and hopefully they won't be forgotten.
Onwards and upwards, or at least sideways.
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