We are Homeless

If you have seen the news today, you may have heard that there was an explosion in NYC this morning (many of the news accounts have been inaccurately saying it occurred in the afternoon). First thing this morning, there was an underground explosion which blew off a manhole cover and shot flames out of the manhole. This the manhole cover was directly in front of our building and, apparently, the resulting fire was underneath our building (where there is an underground power plant). This morning when we had no utilities everyone seemed to be on edge, but the word seemed to be that they would get the utilities back on and everything would be fine. Apparently, it is worse than initially thought. Our building has been evacuated and we are homeless. There is a chance that we could be permitted back in the building late tonight, but we have been given information about local facilities with cots for us to stay at until this is resolved.

Add this turn of events to what has otherwise been a pretty lousy week. This week, Wife’s family experienced a tragedy that has had us down, especially Wife (we will certainly not be blogging about it).

So, keep us in your thoughts and prayers. This post probably has too much personal information, so I will undoubtedly remove it from the web soon – I just thought our friends and family would like an update on these homeless New Yorkers.

UPDATE:

Click here for a link to ABC's story on the fire, though they seem to have the facts all skewed (a news organization not having all the facts right - who would have thought?). I have a couple of corrections for the story:

1) It is not a dorm. It is an apartment building owned by the university. There is a great difference between a dorm room and an apartment building (primarily the cost).

2) There was an actual explosion (I heard it), and people I spoke to saw the massive flames (not just a little smoke).