WRITING CULTURE 2012: Film, Food & Beyond

An Outdated Burger

Wise man once said: it’s easy to be snarky when you sit behind a computer. I’m not going to attempt to refute that morsel of new age wisdom.

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A buzzing sound right behind the wall, I wake up because it seems like someone is drilling my head. They start making noise at 9 am and keep working all day long. The first floor of our building got flooded and now the landlord is renovating it. The walls flake off like potato chips, my neighbor tells me he is afraid of all the mold to come up to our floor. Every day i see the growth of the heap of construction garbage near my door. Harrison NJ is recovering from Sandy. As i walk to the train station, I see people working on their basements, i see piles of trash, i even saw a chest with open drawers full of colorful panties; this whole thing was under the water and the owner just decided to throw away everything at once.
Path trains that connect NJ and NY are not running properly, they stop running at 10, so if you work at night, you should wait until 5 am when they start working again.
The stores’ shelves got full again, there is no shortage of bread, milk or eggs as it was right after the hurricane. The gas stations work as they used to work, everything comes back to normal.

Empty supermarket shelves before Hurricane Sandy, Montgomery

This was the scariest hurricane I faced (well, i remember Katrina hit when I was in Florida, but I was not affected as much as here) and I hope NYC will never be hit hard like this again.

The picture is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Empty_supermarket_shelves_before_Hurricane_Sandy,_Montgomery,_NY.jpg