The board seems kind of dead and the usual Eastern Seaboard crowd seems to be missing. Where is everyone? No power? Under water? Preoccupied with getting to the office? Drowning their sorrows with Burgundy?
I’m around. Lots of folks are sure to be without power. It’s a bit of a miracle that you have any given your location.
As for sorrows - was lucky to have none. I did drown Tuesday in some 2009 Geil Muskateller Trocken though. Yum!
Down in the cellar making sure everything was on higher ground. No wine losses here.
You might want to look in Asylum where non-wine matters like a hurricane are discussed.
Here on the Upper West Side it was kind of a non-event because we’re well above sea level. Zabar’s was already reopened by noon or so yesterday and the shelves were nearly fully stocked.
Further downtown it’s another story.
I’m around and have power although 90% of my town doesn’t have power. Our house has become a revolving door for people looking for a meal, shower, nap, etc. Last night we went through a bottle of 2010 Au Bon Climat Sonoma County PN, 1998 Gallet Cote Rotie, 1998 Ogier Cote Rotie, 2001 Charvin CdP, 2001 Beaucastel CdP, and 1998 Vieux Telegraphe CdP. Didn’t drink on Monday night…too scared.
Well, the relatively higher grounds of midtown East where I live was spared flooding and power outage. Also took in a “refugee” who’s crashing with us in our spare bedroom, a nephew who’s attending NYU and his dorm in the East Village is going to be without power for a while. Not much of a wine drinker, so it doesn’t look like I’ll be doing special wine-drinking with him while he’s with us.
We weathered the storm fine. People downtown are still struggling.
I would say DC basically dodged a bullet except for flooding in Northern VA. Thankfully, so did Rehoboth Beach DE where our other homes is located.
Time to break him in!
I did fine and it was almost a non event for me. Unfortunately, some of my neighbors didn’t do that well.
UES had no issues either as far as I can tell. Aside from a few downed trees, I’ve had worse thunderstorms. I have helped a few friends from downtown with power/water/supplies, but otherwise folks were out and about yesterday as if it was a typical Fall day. Stores were pretty well stocked, but got busier as the day went on. Grace’s and Citarella (2 gourmet stores like Zabar’s) were closed however, though I heard Fairway on 86th was open.
To keep this in Wine Talk, I can say that we cracked a 2010 Julien Sunier Fleurie for the storm, which was lovely and flowery and very transparent. But yesterday I spent the afternoon tasting samples from potential wineries (most were yucky, sad to say).
Still without power or water but shop rite and bjs are open for as long as their generators keep running. My buildings generator will run out soon so the hallway and stairwell lights will be shut off the.
A 2006 Castellare I sodi was a bit closed last night.
No power but trying to make life as normal as possible. Family and friends are safe. Valuables appear to be unharmed. The gas stove works and the corkscrew is manual. I hope everyone is and their families are ok. For those of you in lower manhattan, be really careful walking around particularly at night. It is pretty treacherous crossing the avenues.
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I need to stop looking at CNN.com, as watching those videos, and reading the articles is quite disheartening. I really feel for all of you out there, particularly when so much of the rest of the country appears almost oblivious to the massive storm that just struck the East coast.
Happy Halloween from the Upper West Side, where the power (and the wine) still flow. Tonight’s treat: the '95 Leoville Las Cases.
DC (at least near Dupont Circle) was very windy on Monday but no real problems, though these events are always worse in areas where there are more houses and above ground power lines. A half bottle of 1997 Huet Vouvray Le Mont (I think) moelleux was absolutely delicious when visiting some neighbors in the building.
Came home to Battery Park City last night after spending two nights crashing on a friend’s couch. Strangely, most of BPC that’s west of the West Side Highway/West St. has power but everything else below 39th St. is out. Was a surreal cab ride home down the West Side Highway last night through a completely dark city. My office in FiDi is closed indefinitely and our firm email network has been knocked out.
Afterthought: There’s still a sense of shock. The fiery destruction of 111 homes in the Breezy Point section of Queens was horrifying. And the sight of sea water rushing into the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel was astonishing. We’ve taken in a friend whose seaside home on Long Island was badly battered, though not destroyed, thank God. Even for the fortunate (like myself) these natural calamities are no longer an abstraction.
No power here.
Just got back from an early evening run that included Lower East Side and East Village. Strange and eerie sight (and feeling) in the East Village, specifically along the restaurants/bar rows along 1st Avenue and 2nd Avenue, which is almost deserted with every business establishment closed, very dark with no lights anywhere, and very very light vehicle traffic.
Just as reported, the power cutoff is exactly at 39th Street.