Lamest Hurricane Ever.

So with all of the people texting me begging me to evacuate, telling me to be safe, telling me to prepare etc. etc. I thought I was going to get to experience history living through Hurricane Irene in NYC.  I thought it would be epic, something people would talk about for years.  I was so prepared I had massive amounts of food and bottled water plus two full pitchers of filtered water and I filled the bathtub with water.  I rounded up all my flashlights and candles, covered the windows, moved my electronics away from the windows, I kept all electronic tools for communication constantly charged in case the power went out so they would last as long as possible. Argo shut down for 2.5 days, the subways shut down, all signs pointed to epic.

and what happened? NADA.  There was a lot of rain and some mildly strong wind but no damage, no flooding, no power outage, no water service interruption.  BORING.  I know we were really lucky and I stayed up almost all night Saturday scared something was going to happen.  There are tons of people who were not so lucky and my heart goes out to them.  I just wish they hadn't hyped it up so much.

Anyway here are some pics of the whole experience

Park was empty right before the storm

Rainy mist moving in over the empire state building

Stores closed up shop

Argo closed all weekend

Some people ignored the park closed for hurricane signs

Sunday morning when the storm was barely over people flooded outside again

Empire state building still standing afterwards

This was the most damage I saw

Subways still closed

Mostly just debris everywhere

Some shops still weren't open Sunday

Yuck.