Like everything, the MBIP blog is going to be changing now while we wait out this Coronavirus era. I’m no longer going out to places so I thought one thing I could do is look back at blogs from the past and put up photos from times when we had no idea that our lives would end up in a place like this.
I’m hopeful that things will be back to normal sometime in the future, but for now, let’s look at a time in the past when there was supposed to be a horrible hurricane in New York City and I was there! And thankfully, despite all of the warnings, it didn’t happen.
Hurricane Irene was a bad weather experience that started on August 15, 2011 from the coast of Africa and moved to the Mid-Atlantic and New England in the following weeks. It was on the way to New York City when I lived there and the predictions were pretty scary.
They said that the city would get hit hard and to prepare for a horrible storm and possibly a couple of days without power.
I and all of my friends were really nervous about this.
While everyone else stocked up on food, I decided to stock up on liquids.
I had three bottles of tea, four bottles of water, fifteen cans of tallboy Budweisers, six bottles of Red Stripe, three cans of Ballantine Ale, four bottles of Mountain Dew and one bottle of Modelo beer. And I also had a bottle of vodka in the freezer.
I figured that would get me through a couple of days of weathering out the storm, if I was stuck inside of my apartment.
The day came and we were supposed to be hit around nine o’clock at night. By then I had been drinking for a few hours, then they said it probably wouldn’t hit till ten o’clock. The storm kept getting delayed and I kept drinking and around midnight I had passed out.
I woke up expecting the worst, but when I looked outside I didn’t see any damage. Then I found out that New York had been spared. We had what amounted to a bad thunderstorm and ended up with heavy winds and about six inches of rain. There was little damage anywhere and no one lost power. We were safe!
The above picture is from my block where there was just some leaves knocked down.
I called some friends and we decided to celebrate at…
McSorley’s Old Ale House!
McSorley’s is one of New York’s oldest bars and it was the 45th bar I visited on my bar crawl.
It was packed inside and everyone was in a good mood since we didn’t get the horrible storm they had predicted. Everyone was laughing about how scared we all were!
I managed to squeeze in at the end of the bar this is my view from where I was perched.
I wasn’t the only one taking photos in the bar!
Michael was the bartender on duty and he told me they hadn’t planned on being open because of the supposed hurricane, so he said they were short-handed but happy to be there and back in business.
Here’s my two mugs of beer he delivered to me.
At McSorley’s you can either order McSorley’s Ale or Dark Ale, there’s no other choices. And when you order one mug, they bring you two, that’s just the way it is in there and I’m quite happy with those rules!
I got a ham and cheese sandwich for dinner.
I put a generous dollop of their homemade mustard on the sandwich and it was delicious!
Maeve was working in the kitchen and I went back and thanked her for assembling such a tasty sandwich for me!
There’s my friends, Duncester, Ed and Goggla. We were all in a celebratory mood that evening since we had dodged the storm that had freaked all of us out. You can read the original post right here.
It’s too late to dodge the storm we’re currently in, but try and stay home as much as possible and hopefully in a few months, we’ll all feel better. Stay safe, socially distance, be well and wash your hands.
We’ll see you all tomorrow!
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P.S. Looking For A BooK To Read While You’re Stuck At Home?
Local authors, William D. Mayo and Gail Mayo have recently published a book about his eight year journey of living with cancer. It’s called, Howard, Stanley and Me: A Long Journey with Cancer. You can read all about it right here.
Check it out and buy a copy to read while you wait out the storm!