The above has replaced “How are you?” as the greeting of
choice these days, at least here in the New Haven area. While in the city
itself only 4,100 customers are without power, in Milford it’s 12,000 (nearly
half of UI’s customers); in Trumbull, 9,700 (70%) and in Woodbridge, where we
live, 1,800, or 48%. UI is also reporting that in Orange, CT, 6,421 customers out
of 6,203 are without power. They say 103.5% of their customers are without
power.
One only hopes their power restoration ability is better
than their math skills.
Metro North is now running trains into New York, but not
from New Haven. Trains are originating in Stamford, about halfway to the city.
Ransom’s plan is to drive to SUNY Purchase -- where he teaches conducting -- leave
his car there and then catch a train into the city for tonight’s rehearsal – a
rehearsal for an opera that may be canceled as singers and musicians find it
impossible to get to work.
At home I keep buying ice and bringing water from work. The
nights are very quiet and the novelty has long ago worn off. I like candles,
but only to a point.
When I finish this post I will head over to the gym again
for a shower; I am grateful for Yale’s generosity but it sure aint as easy as
turning a lever in my own bathroom.
All of this is of course small stuff; plenty of people have
it far worse.
One thing is perfectly clear though: the earth’s climate is
changing. Three so called 100-year storms
have come through CT in the past year. The idiots who still deny the facts and
say that climate change is a hoax or a theory need to gather in convention and
look over the data. I’d suggest they meet on the Atlantic City boardwalk.
Just down the road from Atlantic City
