jennings rampage

Not only will I be safe from the H-bomb, I’ll sleep through it.

Very early this morning, New York experienced an extraordinarily strong thunderstorm, possibly tornadoes, fallen trees, flooded subways, overcrowded buses, and the MTA actually said to commuters, “the fuck, would it kill you to just stay home, we’re fucked here, c’mon.” Eyewitnesses on the news talked about rattling windows and swaying buildings. Every update has been delivered over an endless B-roll of packed subway platforms, jammed buses, and sweaty people with one more “commute from Hell” story. Right now, Mayor Bloomberg is emceeing a cavalcade of every administrator of every city agency to assure us that everything is being considered and everything is under control.

I guess I slept straight through it. My alarm went off at 9, I got up around 10, and my first indication that anything happened was a thread on an Internet message board. Three hours later, I’m still in my stockingfeet watching the news about what’s happening right outside my bunker-like apartment. The only real effect this is having on my day is there aren’t very many new job postings.

You know what, MTA, I think I’ll just stay in. All you had to do was ask.