Driving into work this morning, I could see the smoke that still lies over Manhatthan. There’s a squad car barring the entrance to Teterboro airport. Rt 46 is closed a few miles before it hits the George Washington Bridge.

Ok, that’s the quite reflection. As for all of you wankers who were clogging up 46 eastbound yesterday afternoon on the assumption that all the radio alerts that the GWB was CLOSED just didn’t apply to you and that somehow, in spite of everything, you were special enough to get into the city when evryone else couldn’t…. WTF? The radios were going on and *on* about how no one could get onto the city, that the only entrance that was open was the Tappan Zee Bridge, and yet the roads were clogged with drivers trying to get to the GWB. Mass hysteria?

CBS is still transmitting. No one else is up. I can’t even get NPR. Everyone at Slashdot and Google are my heroes. They were getting info out yesterday when no one else could. Google was caching copies of the news sites so people could get to them. Net traffic has never seen anything like this.

Still haven’t heard much in the media about how DC is handling all of this. Makes me wonder how much of this story we’ll ever fully know.

More and more of my friends have checked in over private email and mailing lists. I wish I could give them all real hugs.

The vibes that are just out there and floating around - free floating confusion, anger, and worry. It’s enough to make your head spin. I just want to go home and hug my cats.