As many of you know, most of my summer was spent in dentist chairs. As I'm typing, I'm playing with the stitches in my mouth... See, I didn't have time to get them removed in New York because I decided it was time for my break, and I should take a trip to the Jersey shore.
Wrong move! It was time to break for the border! After one day I was evacuated from my New Jersey hotel only to be greeted by Hurricane Irene in NYC!
East Coasters are tough, but it's hard to be tough when you're emptying pails of water from your living room! All of my LA friends are telling me "It was only a tropical storm!" Really? I've never had water faucets in my ceiling!
It started with the warnings on the news and of course, New Yorkers started with their "hurricane parties."
I called my husband while I was flashlight shopping and told him to get some food. He replied: "I ordered Chinese."
Well, that was not going to cut it. I was cooking like it was Pesach! I was not going to run out of food, candles, batteries or cat food!
Hurricane Irene hit like a pint of tequila! My hair got wet in the house and that never makes me happy! Friends were calling in from LA.... just to talk! Cue me trying to explain that I want to save the battery power in my cell phones.
We never lost power, but I definitely felt that there is a higher power. When you watch the news and see your own family on a boat... you believe!
My cousins were being evacuated in Patterson, NJ on eyewitness news and it was awful! I think that none of us really believed that it was going to be that bad, but it was, and I lived to see it and never ever want to see it again!
Oddly enough, I came back to LA significantly thinner after running up and down 3 flights of stairs in my NY apartment, and true to form, my Los Angeles upstairs-insomniac-neighbor was louder than the storm!
That woman is still at it! What can she be doing at 4:30 am? As I hear the drawers slam and the heels click I realize that I am back in Los Angeles... the real city that never sleeps... at least, the city that doesn't let me sleep!
Jerry Lewis never saw this coming! And I don't mean his MDA departure, I mean New York in a hurricane!
To all my VJ fans, thank you for your letters... I'm okay and will have a lot more to say as the school year begins... Nothing is more fun than a PTA meeting, right?
With that I thank you for staying tuned to VJ... where we made it through the rain! To tell you like it is and like it was!
none of us really believed that it was going to be that bad, but it was, and I lived to see it and never ever want to see it again!
