Neve, April, and I took a little break from the city and were up at the cabin this past weekend. I think it helped cool things down between me and Gil. This is all for the good as I just don’t have the temperment to fight with my father.
That’s all well and good, but it was chaos in the office when I arrived today. All work on new transit planning is on hold while the USNE authorities try to deal with the wreckage from Hurricane Erika. We missed out on the details up in the woods, but I can tell you that it sounds like most of the media stories aren’t really saying how bad it is. Long Island took most of the damage, but the southeast coast of Connecticut and a bunch of Rhode Island is hurting.
I’m not sure how things are going in New York, but New England just isn’t prepared to handle something like this on our own yet. A lot of the emergency tasks usually fall to the state National Guard units; but General Carlson has most of those units holding strongpoints on the western border or guarding bases and nuke plants. The few more units are up in Maine on ‘training exercises’ convincing the Mainiacs that it would be a bad idea for them to try and be independent of Boston.
So, the roads are blocked, people are panicked, and a bad food and essentials distribution system is getting worse. My Army Corps co-worker, Sargeant Lederer, gave me a crash course in logistics and quartermastering today and I’m sure there is more to learn tomorrow. For now, I’m going to grab some sleep before going back in early. There’s rumors that the Canadians might help out, so we’ll need to define routes and staging areas for them.
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