Sandy

The snippet in our paper about NYU Langone
Hospital evacuating

First, our sympathies go out to everyone who found themselves/home/family/work in the line of destruction.  NYU was devastated, with NYU Langone Hospital evacuated by candlelight- a big kudos to all the staff and volunteers.   Our three teaching facilities (including Bellevue and the VA) will be closed for at least weeks.  It sucks, but may all my classmates have patience and flexibility for this last year, and still enjoy it fully before starting residency…!  Nate went out everyday reporting, and you can feel the drastic shift in attitude in his jolly pre-storm story about businesses staying open, followed by a harrowing visit to Breezy Point.  His favorite is pitching a day in the field and calling it work – he’ll be following an organized vets volunteer group.  He told me no one knows making order out of mass chaos better those coming back from deployment. 

As for here, the front page of our paper showed NYC, and coverage continued daily.  The Bolivian government shipped 60 tons of rice for aid off to Cuba, who suffered the harsh tropical side of the storm.  As you could have guessed, Bolivia went unscathed.  When I told everyone “I’ll be safe”, I could not have imagined that I would ever be more secure here than back in NYC.