Stuck in Brooklyn this morning/last night's storm

I'm trying to decide: I usually take the G to the 7/the 7 to the G, and for the return home it looks like only one is working. But I have two alternate ideas that involve buses...

So: how is the B61 doing? I figure I could either take the 7 to Court Street and get the B61 there, or take the water taxi to Fulton Ferry and catch it at Atlantic Avenue.

The MTA site is so slow, that is, when it's actually up and running! Bastards!

I'm ready to go home and crack a beer or bottle of wine.
Ya hear me?

beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer

Thank goodness I'm a schoolteacher. Did anyone go out into the rain last night. I would hve except that it would have required me to get dressed...

NY1 says the National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado hit Bay Ridge last night. :shock: :shock: :shock:

apollonia666 wrote: Holy crap.

If Target is closed, things are BAD, yo.

No shit. Lock Yo Doors! Target is closed!

It was just typical of the whole day. One of those "are you fucking kidding me?" days.

Mamacita wrote: The MTA site is so slow, that is, when it's actually up and running! Bastards!

I'm ready to go home and crack a beer or bottle of wine.
Ya hear me?

Speaking as somebody who started drinking at 2pm today, this is my recommended course of action.

Flexichick, I'm so jealous, I want to be home with the kitty and some Nachos Regulares. Even if Nachos Regulares sort of sounds like something you eat when you're constipated.

queencallipygos, I think you might have better luck on the A train, it's running local. Is that a possibility?

faycat wrote: Flexichick, I'm so jealous, I want to be home with the kitty and some Nachos Regulares. Even if Nachos Regulares sort of sounds like something you eat when you're constipated.

queencallipygos, I think you might have better luck on the A train, it's running local. Is that a possibility?

Don't forget the Negra Modelo. That was the best part. It was nice and cold.

Nachos regulares do not make you irregulares

You'll be home soon (hopefully).

Flexichick, btw, your cat is so freaking cute. Really crazy nachos with the peppers piled on do have a tendency to move things along after a while, if you know what I mean. My brother invented a ridiculous nacho dish with practically everything on it and called it Nachos Insanos. The digestive results were indeed insano.

My brother is really lucky, he is out of town right now and asked me to take care of his car for the week so that he wouldn't get a street cleaning ticket. So it's parked in my neighborhood in Williamsburg, where there wasn't any damage to speak of, instead of his neighborhood in Bay Ridge, where tons of cars are smooshed. It's too bad I am not a confident enough driver to drive it much, but I doubt it really would have helped get into Manhattan this morning anyway.

traffic was really, really insane. you'd have gotten nowhere. (but, while driving through the tornado zone, i did notice tons of cops issuing alternate side tickets...)

Our friend in Bay Ridge actually attempted to drive to work at 9:30ish. They got a whopping 15 blocks up 4th ave in 30 minutes. That's old-person-walking speed!

Suffice it to say they gave up.

Faycat, that's my boy cat's baby photo. He is adorable and an angel :-)

That said, it may be time to give girl cat her share of the limelight!

You need an avatar, stat!

Nachos Insanos sounds like they'd give you the term I coined....."Assplotions". You have to say it with a Ricky Ricardo accent (being half-Cuban, I can pull this of.

It took me about 45 minutes to get to work this morning. I walked from Prospect Place to Dekalb, and the B came quickly, with only very slight delays.

Of course, when I got to work, nobody was there, which was great. I didn't even have to pretend to work. Ha!

(CBS) NEW YORK What was thought to be a violently windy thunderstorm that plowed through New York City on Wednesday morning turned out to be a weather event of historical proportions, reported CBS station WCBS-TV in New York.

The National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday night that an EF1 tornado touched down in the borough of Staten Island before eventually becoming the EF2 tornado that slammed into Brooklyn.

During a 10-minute stretch around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, the twister skipped along a nine-mile path before zipping through the Verrazano Narrows and into Bay Ridge. The storm marked Brooklyn's first tornado since such weather events were recorded. Officials measured it to be an EF2 twister, characterized by winds of anywhere from 111 to 135 miles per hour.

Took me the regular 20min to get from 7th ave to Broadway Lafayette on the B this morning.

seems to be ok now.

stupid weather couldn't be crazy 2 days in a row? I have to pretend to work today!

Look like we're in store for 3 more inches of rain tonight, although the MTA is claiming they'll be ready for the morning rush...

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=72492

We'll see.

Yep.