I know there are several active threads about the crisis in NYC right now. Unfortunately, since some of them are becoming political, I am finding them increasingly hard to read. (I’m glad that people are discussing it, I’m just not in an emotional state to participate right now.) Heck, I won't even mind if the moderators lock this one
I wanted to take a clean thread to say “Thank You” to all of those who posted and emailed their thoughts, wishes, prayers, and condolences on behalf of all of us spinners out here.
I just spent the last hour sitting on the corner of Canal St. and West Broadway watching the plumes of smoke fill the sky as the sun set over New Jersey. As one of the few New Yorkers allowed anywhere near downtown (because I live downtown) I walked through the empty streets normally packed with pedestrians. The eerie silence of the streets broken only by of caravans of dump trucks rolling by, full of debris. This was the first time I had been able see it, or rather, not to see it. I can only say that the images on TV do not compare to standing on your street corner in silence and watching the smoke rise.
On my walk home I saw two teenagers with signs that said “Thank You” on them. They were standing by the Westside Highway holding them up to the busses of rescue workers that were heading downtown. It must have been the tenth time I was choked up today. I knew there were some people I needed to thank as well.
Thank you.
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