Village Voice reporter waits it out in LIC during Hurricane Sandy

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Though it was expected that the Rockaways and the area around Jamaica Bay would be affected by Hurricane Sandy, some found it surprising that the Hunters Point section of LIC was also made to evacuate. This clickable map shows Zone A in red – LIC is part of that. Zone A was under and mandatory evacuation yesterday afternoon.

One reporter from the Village Voice is going to update his hurricane experience from LIC, in an apartment that’s not even his (he’s from Crown Heights).

I’m not going to work today, either — I’m gonna be holed up in an apartment in Queens that just happens to be in a part of the borough that Mayor Mike Bloomberg has determined to be an “evacuation zone.”

But I didn’t evacuate — and this isn’t even my apartment.

Today, I will be updating Voice readers about the storm from the evacuation zone of Long Island City. But my choice to not evacuate is not a macho thing. Rather — despite having been warned of the dangers of my current location by its current status as an “evacuation zone” as the supposed storm to end all storms is bearing down on New York — Long Island City is still a much safer neighborhood than Crown Heights, where I currently reside.

Good luck, dude. We’ll check in with you from time to time, too.

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