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Laura Anne Gilman ([personal profile] lagilman) wrote2012-10-28 11:46 am

Update on the State of the Meerkat

My plan right now is to run updates on Twitter, with occasional forays into Facebook. Not that I don't love y'all on LJ, but I suspect it will be quick bursts, and that's what Twitter excels at.

https://twitter.com/LAGilman

The current ETI for Sandy is 4am Monday morning. The city is going into safe-run mode. No mass transit. No school in session. Mandatory flooding evac for Zone A (and if you're in zone A and need a place to crash, CALL ME).

Right now, I'm as well-situated as possible: out of the evacuation zones, in a sturdy building, on a hill. I have food, water, and clean clothing, working flashlights and a cement-walled interior hallway with no windows, in event of the Worst Case Scenario in terms of wind. I fully expect to hunker down and come out of this safe and dry.

In the meanwhile, there's work that still needs doing....

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2012-10-28 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Having no idea where Zone A may be . . .

My sister lives near Lincoln Center, on an upper floor. I've been presuming she chose wisely.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2012-10-28 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
She's only a couple of blocks from the Hudson. I have little sense of the topography involved, and I can't get Google Maps to give me contours.

[identity profile] jhetley.livejournal.com 2012-10-28 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks. I have an older version of Google Earth on this computer, and that does give (approximate) elevations. The street level seems to be about 40'+ above whatever datum the program uses.

[identity profile] mtlawson.livejournal.com 2012-10-29 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Stay safe, Laura Anne.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/ 2012-10-29 11:15 am (UTC)(link)
Stay safe.

[identity profile] fakefrenchie.livejournal.com 2014-10-31 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
Good Luck, Laura Anne!!!