The day the knocked down the palais, My sister stood and cried

So, the day after: personally, as in regarding my immediate family, all is well. Everyone's reported in safe and dry, and lacking power but that's fine. My sister-in-law is bringing her brood over to her parents', at least until her heat gets back, but that's all the perfectly ordinary routine of coming through such a storm.

I worried some when the storm came through Monday night when I heard the Boardwalk in Atlantic City was being ripped up. bunny_hugger and I hadn't had the chance to visit the amusement piers south of Seaside Heights --- if we hadn't been busy getting married this summer, it probably would have been one of our taking in Wildwood and the Steel Pier and all --- and it's impossible to think of the Atlantic City Boardwalk being torn up without being struck with fear for the rest of the attractions. In light of the astounding pictures of Star Jet dropped in the water it's been hard to find mention of the other places, especially since nobody reports anything anymore, they just reblog and retweet and pass along the stuff other people found first, with no concept of ``source'' or ``dateline'' making one take the risk of understanding events and timelines.

One that I didn't think to be worried about until last night was the Silverball Museum, in Asbury Park. That's right on the Asbury Park Boardwalk, which was itself fairly badly ripped up. I did find that the Stone Pony --- just across the street, but also literally dozens of feet farther from shore --- was intact, and my father reported that the Paramount Theater and Madame Marie's fortune-telling stand were standing, albeit damaged. No word on Silverball Museum, which is near Madame Marie's, but also on the Boardwalk.

The flooding in Belmar --- where there's a used book store I've gone to, and Kaya's Kitchen --- and surrounding towns such as where my barber is, is worrying too. It may take months just to think of all the things I ought to check on.

Remarkably, the Asbury Park Press was able to run off editions for eight other newspapers which were flooded out, although I have the vague suspicion that their printing presses might not actually be within the confines of Asbury Park, which is a city that reaches inland easily sixty feet from the shoreline.

Trivia: The Era of Constantinople (observed in the Greek church and in Russia) began with The Creation, dated to 5508 BC. Source: Mapping Time: The Calendar and its History, EG Richards.

Currently Reading: Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. I disillusioned bunny_hugger with this, as she happened to see me reading ``The Adventure Of The Musgrave Ritual''; years ago, I had used ``Musgrave'' as a temporary password for her then-husband for something Holmes-related, and her Then was convinced that I was making a sly reference to the canon, since ``The Musgrave Ritual'' is not one of the Holmes stories that comes to the non-Holmes-fan mind in the first sixty tries at naming one. But it was coincidence; I was using astronaut names at the time, and Story Musgrave was in the news, and fessed up to it.