STORMAGEDDON 2011 part three: #Irene Aftermath (well, in my corner of NYC)

In the final installment of TheVlog: STORMAGEDDON 2011, I chronicle the the damage Irene did to my neighborhood in northern Manhattan.  Shot on August 28, 2011, the footage captured here was shot before the clean-up crews were done and captures a bit of the drama of having a tropical storm pass through your city.  Of course, this is just my corner of the city. Some areas got it worse than me.

Finally crashed around 3:30am--slept with my window open and this is what I woke up to:

I've checked the news and from my own perspective, NYC didn't get hit very hard at all.  I mean, compared to the madness that the news was predicting.  I got some text messages from my wife this morning in Connecticut and they lost power around 4:30am and don't have it back yet. So, we NYCers seemed to have done all right.  Our infrastructure might have been tougher, too, though.

Now I've got to get some breakfast, shower and shoot some footage of how things look today.

STORMAGEDDON 2011 part two: #Irene Arrives in #NYC! (from yesterday)

Sorry, it took me a while to cut it together and it’s in HD so it took another few hours to upload the 1GB final cut to YouTube.  By then it was 3am and I was so tired I could hardly keep awake.  I expected Irene to wake me up with her fury, but she didn’t.  Anyway, so here it is—the calm JUST before the storm: