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Yesterday's storm made for messes all over the region. Highways and roads were flooded (there are still some issues this morning—be careful, there may be downed power lines) and Fox 5 adds, "The wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain sent tree limbs crashing and left more than 120,000 customers without power in eastern New York... More than 1,500 customers were without power on Long Island and several hundred in New York City." And, naturally, there were plenty of delays at JFK and LaGuardia airports last night. Newsday, which reports that an urban flood warning is still in effect—not to mention a coastal flood advisory after the "astronomically high tides"—tries to look on the bright side: "It could have been worse. It could have been snow."
Nasty Storm Causes Flooding, Power Outages
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the cops have busted the block of canal street near pearl paint.
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What would have been worse about snow?
@gossipgirl--I wondered that too, but I guess the ice and the snow plows and the shoveling?
Took the crease right out of my trousers. I may apply for federal aid. Maybe the Senate will opt to bail out my cleaning bills.
r1b2, you're an F'in genius. I was wearing a perfectly good pair of dress pants that got all damp and wrinkled, and even if I wasn't too lazy to iron, my apartment is too small to bother with an ironing board. Now I have to drop them at the dry cleaners and I'm most upset because I didn't even stain them.
Seriously though, that was the worst shit ever outside last night.
It was awful. Had to go to an industry holiday party and shmooze with clients, and the rain made it even less attractive an evening (I really didn't want to go.) Afterward, somehow managed to get a cab fairly quickly, but I was completely soaked. Same thing happened the day before. Now I have 2 suits that need to go to the cleaners. Curse you, nature. I'm just trying to make a living.
"Wintry mix" would be a good name for a new sundae or milkshake or something.
"Wintry mix" would be a great name for a rock band made up of guys in their late fifties/early sixties.