It's November the 1st and a few days ago, the worst natural disaster to ever hit the eastern seaboard of the U.S. rampaged it's way through the coastal cities like nobody's business in the form of hurricane Sandy.
Some inland states were affected as well, I'll be candid here and confess I do not know the extent of the damage for I'm a New Yorker and my first priority is keeping abreast of local news.
Sandy, was responsible for approximately 111 homes in the Breezy Point section of Queens burning down. More accurately, her waves and rains prevented firefighters from putting out 4 houses that were ablaze and had to stand and watch as the fire spread to just about the entirety of Breezy Point.
Some other neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs also felt Sandy's effects but were not nearly as devastated. At this point in the recovery efforts you got off lucky if all you lost was power.
You know, when I started to write this post I swore I had something sage or poignant to write down, something that would cement my belief that I am capable of thinking outside of myself and my menial needs to explain the goings on around me in a more 'meta-physical, it's all connected brah!' Than the usual "The things in front of my face are the most important because that's where my nose ends" method so many of us in the world's fastest paced city are forced to operate, but ; I've got nothing, nada...the best I can do is be thankful, grateful that my family was untouched by the calamities that others were forced to suffer through, eternally grateful.
This event drove home the point that I am just a man, trying my best to protect his family, to do right by my fellow human beings and in the end, am quite insignificant in the grand scheme that Mother Nature refuses to let us in on.
My thoughts are with those who have suffered losing power, water, cars, homes and, in the worst cases..loved ones.
My heart is full of gratitude.
This is horrible, that's it.
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