Your Nor'Easter Stories

Brian Lehrer (0:08)

Brian Lehrer on WNYC, and for our last 10 minutes, we're just going to open up the phones, and ask you how you got through the storm, how you got through the nor'easter weekend, 212-433-WNYC, 212-433-9692.

And I'm thinking of a few different ways you might help report the story of the nor'easter weekend. One, just call up with the effects on your house, your car, or your neighborhood. Hello Jersey Shore, hello Long Island South Shore, some other places as well. 212-433-WNYC, 433-9692, call or text. But also we were thinking for anybody with kids, what did you do for two days when you really couldn't go out and play much, if at all? For the whole weekend, did you shell out for one of those indoor play spaces? Did you watch Tour Story 5 for the fifth time? What did you do with the kids? 212-433-9692. I also wonder, this is just, you know, maybe there's one of you out there like this. If anyone listening took advantage of the crash in the secondary market for Giants football tickets, I read you could have gotten into MetLife Stadium yesterday for $7 to see an NFL football game, because so many ticket holders were like, nah, it's okay, I'll skip this one between the weather and the Jackson Dart injury. But somebody was buying some of those tickets and said, I'm gonna go and sit out in the storm and watch the Giants play another team, the Tennessee Titans. That's supposed to be really bad. So was anybody like that out there and is listening right now? So, we're gonna take your calls on anything having to do with the storm. Tell us about the effects on your house, your car, your neighborhood, or what you did with the kids. Maybe that'll be most of them. 212-433-WNYC-433-9692. You know, we got a text from the listener on Friday going into the weekend asking if there would be thunder or lightning with the storm because in their kid's soccer league, lightning was the only thing that would cancel the games. So, I don't know. Maybe, never mind the Giants and the Tennessee Titans, maybe your kid was out there playing soccer on Saturday morning. Yes? 212-433-WNYC, tell your story, call or text 212-433-9692.

And if you were going to go to the Global Citizen Festival, cancelled. What did you do instead? Anything in the spirit? Call or text, we'll see what you did over the weekend, or what happened to your house, your car, your neighborhood, right after this.

Brian Lehrer on WNYC to you on Nor'Easter Weekend Story starting with Seemarie and Crown Heights. Hello, Seemarie, we hear Marie. Hi.

Seemarie (3:19)

Hi. No, I'm so glad to hear from you.

First time caller, long time listener, Book Slayer. Her name is Patricia Brown from Book Slayer. She was supposed to have some space at the Book Fair this weekend.

Brian Lehrer (3:44)

The Brooklyn Book Fair. Was it outdoors? Was it supposed to be outdoors?

Seemarie (3:49)

Yes.

Yes. Right outdoor of the Brooklyn Law Library.

Brian Lehrer (3:59)

Okay.

Seemarie (4:00)

Law school. Yes. Yes. And this is really important for her every year. She's an older elder person.

And like, we can just really mess her up.

Brian Lehrer (4:18)

Because that's important to the bookstore, is having that fair each year?

Seemarie (4:25)

Yeah. Absolutely.

Brian Lehrer (4:27)

See, Marie, thank you. Thank you for saying that. That's sad. Here's another pretty serious one. Reed and Queens are on WNYC. Hi, Reed.

Reed (4:37)

Hi, Brian. Yeah. So I've been out on Sunday, 7 to 7 And today, again, I'm an arborist. And we're working on an emergency tree cleanup project. And I have been all weekend.

Dozens and dozens went down and we're cleaning them up, making everything safe for everyone.

Brian Lehrer (4:57)

Yeah. I know people who didn't go out on their run, even in the gap in the rain on Saturday, or didn't go out for their usual walk in the park, because they were afraid of falling tree limbs. And certainly people get hurt and killed by those. In fact, I think the one death in this storm was from exactly that.

Reed (5:16)

It was a NYCHA worker. Yeah, I heard about that. It was awful. It was right around East New York, butter playground, I believe, or Cypress Hills playground.

Brian Lehrer (5:26)

Yeah. Well, thank you for doing that tree cleanup work.

Important to everybody. All right. Here's a holiday hook to the nor'easter. Yitz in Manhattan. Hi, Yitz. You're on WNYC.

Yitz (5:39)

Hey, Brian. Happy holiday. So as you mentioned, and right now it's the holiday of Sukkot, which we're supposed to go out and actually eat in those booths outside. Observant trees do this. It's just a few days after the holiday of Yom Kippur. So obviously the past few days, the holiday started Friday night.