Summer, Part II
Because every damn idiot in this city has to have their air conditioning turned up full blast for one or two lousy 90+ degree days, I and the other two million people in Queens have had our subway service severely curtailed because of potential power outages. Even as I write this, from out my open window I hear the familiar dripping whir of a hundred AC units, even though it's 74 freaking degrees.
You've just got to love New York. These are the same people who come out of An Inconvenient Truth shaking their heads about how shortsighted and dim those car-dependent Middle Americans must be.
You've just got to love New York. These are the same people who come out of An Inconvenient Truth shaking their heads about how shortsighted and dim those car-dependent Middle Americans must be.
posted by Christine Borne at 11:27 PM
3 Comments:
90 is too hot. i'll take anything between 30 and 80...anything else i try to avoid.
When the subway's down, is it possible to take a cab, the LIRR, or a van/bus service to Queens?
Heat is good...unless you are infirmed. As long as I can hydrate myself (and maybe perhaps have a damp towel close by), I am good.
AC is costly (in too many ways).
I don't remember the Rapid ever going out when not precipitated by a storm or a half-of-two-nations-lost-power-because-First-Energy-fell-asleep-at-the-wheel blackout.
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