{"id":573884099,"date":"2012-10-31T23:11:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T04:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573884099"},"modified":"2012-11-03T23:12:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T04:12:18","slug":"new-jersey-with-a-dash-of-nyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/new-jersey-with-a-dash-of-nyu\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey, with a dash of NYU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When they talk about the boardwalk in New Jersey they mean Seaside Heights:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"kaltura_player_1351810489\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" style=\"border: 0px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/cdnapi.kaltura.com\/index.php\/kwidget\/wid\/1_z9mnb33q\/uiconf_id\/3775332\/st_cache\/16481?referer=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/video\/superstorm-hurricane-sandy-2012-superstorm-sandy-wipes-seaside-17605150&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;addThis.playerSize=392x221&amp;freeWheel.siteSectionId=nws_offsite&amp;closedCaptionActive=true&amp;addThis.playerSize=640x360&amp;closedCaptionsOverPlayer.fontsize=18\">Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames.<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s amazing. I&#8217;ve been there, we visited a few years ago. Here&#8217;s one tiny sliver of the boardwalk:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug09\/aug50.jpg\" alt=\"frogbog\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have other photos, of course. They are on the one SD card I can&#8217;t seem to find at a moment. But nevertheless, terrible scene in New Jersey, among many places. The Yankee spent part of her summers on that boardwalk. And, like Gov. Chris Christie said, it&#8217;s all gone or in the ocean. <\/p>\n<p>What awesome might the ocean can throw at the shoreline. No one talks like that, but we all think it as more and more of these stories come out. <\/p>\n<p>I like this kind of story from the <a TARGET=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/newsdesk\/2012\/10\/during-sandy-leaving-langone-one-story.html\">New Yorker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By late Monday, the conditions were frightening. The lights were out. There was no water. The toilets didn\u2019t flush. There were power failures in the emergency room and the transplant unit. Medical personnel had to bring more than two hundred patients down the stairs and get them to other hospitals all over the city and beyond. Earlier, Virginia Rossano had been going through a seizure\u2014just as planned. But now was no time for that, and she was given Ativan, a drug that relaxes the brain and relieves seizures.<\/p>\n<p>Medical personnel (including one med student) put Virginia on a kind of sled and began moving her out of the building. \u201cThree young men carried Virginia down twelve flights of stairs, so slowly, so methodically,\u201d Cathy Rossano said. \u201cThey were phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The delicate process, repeated with hundreds of patients, took nearly a half hour, and, when they got to the street, the Rossanos encountered a line of ambulances, many of them with volunteers who had driven hundreds, even thousands, of miles to help. \u201cThere were people from California, Texas, from everywhere,\u201d Cathy Rossano said. \u201cOur guys were from somewhere in Illinois.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I can use that as a good example of an anecdotal lead for the next year or so. It starts with a medical procedure called a craniotomy, which is not something you&#8217;ll ever forget once you hear it. It has great detail of getting patients out of a non-working hospital and has that everyone-came-together-and-made-it-out happy ending. Definitely worth your reading time. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Chris Christie, and we were, here&#8217;s something else I read about <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/07\/jersey-boys\/309019\/\">the governor and his unrequited love for Bruce Springsteen<\/a>. I feel like it gets some things wrong, but it gets so much right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He is flushed and beaming. The song ends, and he releases his commissioners, who seem happy to bask in their governor\u2019s attention and also happy that he did not crack their windpipes. We\u2019re all feeling elation\u2014if the E Street Band at full throttle doesn\u2019t fill you with joy, you\u2019re probably dead\u2014and it strikes me that this is the moment to ask the governor a trick question: \u201cDo you think Mitt Romney could relate to this? To a Bruce Springsteen show?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He looks at me like I\u2019m from France. \u201cNo one is beyond the reach of Bruce!\u201d he screams over the noise of the crowd, and then screams it again, to make sure I understand: \u201cNo one is beyond the reach of Bruce!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What about Newt?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been married three times!,\u201d Christie answers. \u201cHe\u2019d get this. You know what I mean?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not really, but I accept the point: something about longing and sin and betrayal and the possibility of redemption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jeffrey Goldberg&#8217;s piece on Christie is a fairly usable thumbnail on the governor, so it isn&#8217;t just the Newt joke. There are a few other good lines worth remembering, too. <\/p>\n<p>(Update: Aww, look, Springsteen whom Christie says &#8220;feels guilty that he has so much money, and he thinks it\u2019s all a zero-sum game&#8221; actually <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/entertainment\/music_nightlife\/Springsteen-speaks-on-Sandy-gives-Gov-Christie-props.html\">complimented his governor<\/a> in a Halloween show at Rochester. Probably made the guy&#8217;s day.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When they talk about the boardwalk in New Jersey they mean Seaside Heights: Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. That&#8217;s amazing. I&#8217;ve been there, we visited a few years ago. Here&#8217;s one tiny sliver of the boardwalk: I have other photos, of course. 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