Relief

[trudybooth]

Speaking officially as the official spokesman of all my fellow New Yorkers, I really think a lot of the reaction you saw here last night was relief. We have been waiting, often unconsciously, for the other shoe to drop for almost a decade now. It has colored our reaction to major events since.

When the northeast blacked out in 2003 while

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[arliss]

I don't understand it--even if I had been there, I wouldn't understand it, my mind just doesn't work that way.

But for you and those who have suffered, I'm glad you have this, if it helps.

[trudybooth]

You can't know that. Until you've felt tension in every cell in your body, and every cell of every body around you, a tension which ramps up dramatically (and never quite gets back down to its pror level even once you find out its not another attack)every time there is a black out or a transformer explosion or a plane crashes into the city, until you experience a decade of that in you and everyone around you you are hugely blessed to have no idea how your mind would work in that circumstance.