{"id":8697,"date":"2011-08-26T11:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T18:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2011-08-28T07:51:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T14:51:36","slug":"hurricane-gloria-memories-of-the-last-hurricane-to-take-aim-at-new-york-city-in-1985","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8697","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Gloria: Memories of the Last Hurricane to Take Aim at New York City in 1985"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d returned to NYU from my parents’ home in St. Louis a few weeks earlier than usual in the late Summer of 1985 to produce and direct a play I’d written, PUCK: A Power Play<\/i> — about two hockey players in the desert, naturally — so we’d be able to open during the first week of classes.<\/p>\n

We were forced to postpone opening weekend thanks to Hurricane Gloria, the last hurricane, prior to this weekend’s Irene, to have drawn a bead on New York City.<\/p>\n

“Play Canceled Due to Hurricane” seemed as unthinkably bizarre at the time, to someone like me from the Midwest, anyway, as “Play Canceled Due to Volcano” or “Play Canceled Due to Plague of Locusts.”<\/p>\n

It was in the pre-Katrina, pre-Ike, pre-Tuscaloosa, pre-Joplin, pre-100 year flood, fire, and drought days, however. So while the city took things relatively seriously, I suspect its nothing like what’s going on there this weekend.<\/p>\n

Gloria ended up taking a right turn at the last minute, and little more than the barest drizzle ended up hitting the empty streets of Manhattan that weekend, though I remember well the big white Xs taped across virtually every window in town — NYC’s version of “boarding” things up.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping Irene changes her mind as Gloria did 26 years ago(!), in the Summer of 1985. And here’s hoping our friends on the entire Eastern Seaboard stay safe, smart, and dry over the next few days.<\/p>\n

You can always open the play next<\/i> weekend instead. We did. And lived to tell the tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d returned to NYU from my parents’ home in St. Louis a few weeks earlier than usual in the late Summer of 1985 to produce and direct a play I’d written, PUCK: A Power Play — about two hockey players in the desert, naturally — so we’d be able to open during the first week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,111],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-new-york"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}