The ISA-NE leadership hopes to make a decision by 1200 EDT concerning the status of the conference. While the DC area looks like it should be navigable by Thursday, we don’t have good information about Baltimore or about what the state of east-coast travel will be like. The Baltimore Sun is pretty useless. Any commentary from readers in Baltimore would be appreciated.- If you haven’t been paying attention, the situation in New York an New Jersey is simply terrible.
- The US wind map that’s been going around Facebook is pretty neat. As of right now Sandy’s imprint is unmistakable.
And also:
- The Syrian civil war continues, with clashes in a Palestinian refugee camp.
- Max Fisher discusses Khartoum’s accusation that Israel bombed one of its military factories.
- Increasing clashes and repression in Bahrain as the government attempts to suppress ongoing protests.
- The Party of Regions retains majority in Ukrainian elections as vote monitors express skepticism of the process.
- New Dutch coalition government brings a new round of austerity measures along for the ride.
- A new Center for Global Development report on the “New Middle Classes in Developing Countries.”
- David Maier shares a “presumably minor gripe about experimental philosophy.”
- Michael Krepon reviews Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb.
- Sandy Levinson thinks that Romney’s call to privatize FEMA is this year’s October surprise. Given how many of the insane base-pleasing far-right positions Romney etched-a-sketched during the primaries–and how little he’s suffered from them–I say “meh.” A depressed Obama national-vote tally strikes me as the most likely electoral consequences of Sandy. But what do I know? Not much.
- Brad Delong rounds up theories of the ‘intellectual history’ of “the 47%”
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It’s barely sprinkling in Baltimore right now. Buses are back up, and light rail should be back up tomorrow. https://mta.maryland.gov/advisories/mta-hurricane-sandy-updates
Here’s storm maps for the city of Baltimore. https://cityview.baltimorecity.gov/stormmaps/
I’m about to go into campus, I’ll do some on-the-ground reporting.
New York City is a mess, and the public transit system will take a while to come back up. That said, I’m fairly certain that cars and busses will be able to go in and out of the city soon.
That’s what I understand from my friends living in the Baltimore area as well. They’ve escaped unscatched relative to the folks living in NJ/NY.
From WP’s Blog:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maryland-transit-administration-to-resume-limited-bus-service-reopen-baltimores-subway/2012/10/30/4264caf8-2294-11e2-92f8-7f9c4daf276a_story.html
Maryland Transit Administration to resume limited bus service, reopen Baltimore’s subway
BALTIMORE — The Maryland Transit Administration plans to resume limited
service after finding little damage from superstorm Sandy on its rail
lines.
I drove around downtown a bit, including past the Tremont Hotel. There’s a few smallish branches down, but overall, everything looked way better than I expected. It’s also probably a good thing that the Tremont is further up the hill than the Inner Harbor.