*Published a couple of weeks ago on FB*

Wow last night was the craziest birthday ever (maybe the wackiest 40th bday in history, who knows!)

First, thanks to everyone who came out to Rockaway Hotel for my bday bash despite the bad weather: Jessie, Hannah Rothkuo, Matthew Allison, Vijay Ramanathan, Andrew Barfield, Robert Ballard.

Now the crazy part: on the way back from the Rockaways to NE Queens during Hurricane Ida, Robert and I survived numerous floods, had to go backwards on multiple highways several times (including LIE), the water was above our window and we were literally swimming in one case on the clearview expressway. We thought we might have to sleep in the car but we were able to make it finally to bob’s place (after almost getting to my place — where there was another flood and we had to turn around)!

It’s funny that I mentioned in my post yesterday about the possibility of dying on my 40th bday — I’m glad I didn’t but I could have.

Thanks Robert for sticking it with me and Heather for letting me stay over. I would share pics of the storm with you but we were, you know, trying not to die.

This will definitely go in the memoirs! I can confidently say now that I’ve survived Fire AND Flood!