Stuck in Brooklyn this morning/last night's storm

Subject: Stuck in Brooklyn this morning/last night's storm

I just emailed my boss to say I'd be at least an hour late. Some dude from MTA was on NY1 a little while ago practically begging people to wait to give them time to pump out the system, and based on the MTA service alert page (http://www.mta.info/alert/alertnyct.htm) it looks like every train line I'd use to get to work is still having problems.

Anyone else stuck at home this morning?

Also, WOW at that storm. Anyone from Kensington or Bay Ridge where a tornado supposedly possibly hit? :shock:

i gave up and called in sick.

the streets this morning were pretty funny though. everyone was just wandering around aimlessly on franklin, like a train would come out of the sky and take them to work or something.

My company is sending me a car but is going to be two hours. I should be there rght now.

I headed out at six to miss everything. #4 to A to 42nd St. I got soaked to the bone walking through water over the curb at Eastern and Nostrand. Other than that, uneventful. Co-workers that live in Manhattan are currently calling in stranded though.

Yeah, I'm starting to think that an hour late isn't realistic.

Anyone wanna go get breakfast?

I started walking to Atlantic from Union St. and some girl said cops were telling people to go home. This was around 9:20ish. Called work and said I'd be ther by noon. Someone else called today a snowday! ha!

good god. I just got told to go home.

Be warned that a lot of breakfast places are not open....

tom's?? I'm hungry.

bklynbonnie wrote: Be warned that a lot of breakfast places are not open....

Yeah, I called around the neighborhood a bit, gave up, and made a sammich.

alafairnadia wrote: tom's?? I'm hungry.

Crap. Sorry. But just so's you know, nobody was answering at Tom's a few minutes ago.

fug. I think I. have an egg.

abs276 wrote: i gave up and called in sick.

the streets this morning were pretty funny though. everyone was just wandering around aimlessly on franklin, like a train would come out of the sky and take them to work or something.

lol.

I heard about the subway troubles and rode my bike in. I haven't seen the Brooklyn Bridge this crowded since the black out.

It's hot and humid out and riding a bike makes you sweaty. That's what I discovered today.

finally made it in to work, after originally leaving the house in bedstuy at 8:04. LAME. The company did call me and my comanager a car which was nice because we just BSed the whole way here, but the bridges were nightmares...

I tried to get in, got on a train at Nostrand and sat in the station for twenty minutes. I gave up and went upstairs where I ran into a neighbor. Her husband picked us up and we started towards Williamsburg. We discovered that everything we thought would get us into the city was either delayed or not running so we both gave up and went home.

I'm sitting in my underwear on a conference call. Ain't life grand?

You would have to be suicidal to get on the platforms at Pacific street about an hour ago. Im sure its just as bad now.

Im not going to work today and if I do not until after 12.


zing

Well, it's 10:30 and Boyfriend and I are still stuck at home. My fellow admin keeps being optimistic and saying "Maybe you can have a half day!" HALF DAY? Bitch, I want a whole day!

its kinda bittersweet because thursday and friday are going to be hell after all the work I not going to do today.

bummer

I got as far as Pacific and walked the rest of the way into town. I knew it was going to be a mess because I've seen a lot less rain completely baffle the whiz kids of the MTA. Not a bad walk, but I could use a little corn starch right about now if you know what I mean.

This morning also proved beyond doubt that the useless goddam G-train is the primary reason the F runs like crap year in and year out. The conductor informed us that due to a li'l water difficulty at Hoyt-Scummerhorn street there was a G-train sitting like a steaming turd in every station back to 4th Avenue. Hey, almost nobody rides the thing, but at least they run a ton of them! Ah well. I'm gonna email savetheg.org a little goatse action - all four of their members should be delighted.

And of course, MTA hasn't updated their website at all in the last hour.

I'm really tempted to go back to sleep for a while.

Um, apparently Boyfriend wants to be all noble and attempt to check out the 7th ave station at 11ish to try to go to work. WTF, why can't some people just stay home and take a sick day

because works gotta get done!!!!!!!

I might walk if it wasnt so hot and wasnt going to take me over an hour.

i waited for the F at 9th forever and just gave up. I had breakfast at Daisy's.

It's August. What work could possibly have to be done that can't wait till tomorrow?

Today we are grateful we are freelancers and work from home.

ljnd wrote: It's August. What work could possibly have to be done that can't wait till tomorrow?

Why put off until tomorrow what you can do next week?

And on a side note, I was amazed when I moved to NYC from the west coast and found this slow down of work in the summer. I hadn't ever seen anything like it out there. I do admit that I love getting off at two on Fridays all summer though.

Subject: Fuck the MTA!

I was one of those people walking back and forth on 4th ave between the Union station and the Atlantic station totally confused. I get to Union and everyone is coming out of the station saying they are not running. We all head over towards Atantic and a mob of people are heading from there towards Union saying Atlantic is shut down. We all end up standing in the street with our cell phones attempting to call into work or talking to each other trying to figure out which station is the best bet.

Needless to say 2 1/2 HOURS LATER!!!! I made it into work!!!!
:evil: :evil: :twisted:

Up around 59th st. they were turning trains back too....
And yes, Pacific/Atlantic station was a suicide mission. The pushing and stampeding :x

I'm watching the bourne identity on dvd. I'm brushing up on my spy skillz so I can get a new job. you know, when my job doesn't fire me for just not showing today.

I'm a walker - I walked to Union Square. Not a bad walk, I enjoyed it and my Filipino tropics heritage kept me from being soaked in sweat.

They just updated the MTA website a couple of minutes ago.

11:14:10 AM

Due to severe flooding throughout the subway system, there are extensive delays on all subway lines. Customers are advised when at all possible to use bus service. The detours are as follows:

There is no 1 train service in both directions between the South Ferry Station and the 34th Street Station.

There is no 2 train service in both directions between the Penn Station-34th Street Station and the Atlantic Avenue Station.

There is no 3 train service in both directions between the New Lots Station and the Harlem-148th Street Station.

There is no 4 train service in both directiions between the Utica Avenue Station and the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station.

5 trains are running shuttle in both directions between the East 180th Street Station and the Dyre Avenue Station.

There is no 6 train service in both directions between the 86th Street Station and the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station.

7 trains are running with delays.

a trains are running local.

b trains are suspended in both directions between the Brighton Beach Station and the Bedford Park Boulevard Station.

There is no c train service in both directions between the Euclid Avenue Station and the 168th Street Station.

There is no d train service in both directions between the 145th Street Station and the Norwood-205th Street Station.

There is no e train service in both directions between the 23rd street-Ely Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.

There is no f train service in both directions between the Queens Plaza Station and the Jamaica-179th Street Station.

There is no g train service in both directions between the Long Island City-Court Square Station and the 4th Avenue-9th Street Station.

There is no v train service in both directions between the 2nd Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.

There is no Franklin Avenue Shuttle s train service in both directions between the Prospect Park Station and the Franklin Avenue Station.

There is no 42nd Street Shuttle s train service in both directions between the Times Square-42nd Street Station and the Grand Central-42nd Street Station.

j trains are running with residual delays.

There is no m train service in both directions between the Broad Street Station and the Bay Parkway Station.

There is no q train service in both directions between the Kings Highway Station and the 57th Street-7th Avenue Station.

There is no r train service in both directions between the 57th Street-7th Avenue Station and the Forest Hills-71st Avenue Station.

Santa wrote: its kinda bittersweet because thursday and friday are going to be hell after all the work I not going to do today.

Don't worry, Santa, you have months and months before Christmas!

I was going to be working at home today anyway, but I remember the last time this happened. I gave up on trying to get to work after 1.5-2 hours, and someone else in my department who lives semi-nearby somehow made it, and then I felt really stupid, even though she was the one who was clearly insane to try so hard to get to work when there was nothing special going on, in the summer. Our office was DEAD anyway.

WhyFi wrote: I'm a walker - I walked to Union Square. Not a bad walk, I enjoyed it and my Filipino tropics heritage kept me from being soaked in sweat.

Yeah, it's weird - no tropics heritage here but I've never been a big sweater. I had a little sweat going by the time I got to the office, but some of the poor S.O.B.'s I saw on the bridge looked like they had just hopped out of the shower. I'm betting their co-workers are none too pleased they showed up right about now...