Pro-life video of the day: Twins rock to dad’s guitar
by Hans Johnson
One-year-old twins Chloe and Alexis Radner take one look at each other and agree that Daddy plays good acoustic guitar.
However, lightning doesn’t always strike twice, as when they appeared on Today.
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[HT: Randi G.]
Awww, that’s cute. I play guitar for my kids, they usually like it but once my son told me that the radio plays music better lol.
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I don’t blame these babies. I have the same reaction to acoustic guitar. It just makes me happy! :D lol
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Great video, so cute.
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Too cute, healthy, happy babies. It is soooo great to be PRO-LIFE!!!! “Choose LIFE, that you and your seed may live.”
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How adorable… makes it all worth while.
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Hey, just checking in quickly to say that I hope any others affected by the hurricane are doing ok. I know there aren’t many east coasters here but I think there may be a few.
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Alexandra, don’t you live on the east coast? Is everything okay with you?
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Alexandra, i was actually a little worried worried about you (it feels a little weird worrying about people you only know online, but apparently I do sometimes). I’m guessing everything’s okay sense you’re commenting here.
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“Alexandra, don’t you live on the east coast?”
I think i remember her mentioning New York once.
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They are so cute!!!!!!!!!!!! I needed this today thank you Hans! :)
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Yes I live in NYC. Not at the moment, I’m staying outside the city because I cannot get to my job in NJ without transit so I need to drive (I borrowed a car), and I cannot drive into/out of the city with less than 3 people in my car (river crossing restrictions; it’s not easy to find 2 other people who want to go to the same part of NJ as me). Basically the city is such a mess that I just packed the cat up and left.
Things are ok. My apartment is fine; my neighborhood flooded a bit but it stopped a couple blocks away from my building. Gas and transportation in general is the biggest problem now. Ever since I started driving on Monday I have been coasting rather than accelerating/braking and stuff like that, altering routes based on how much gas they take, etc, but last night I decided to use my remaining amount of gas to drive out to Connecticut and fill up there. You just can’t find anything here. One of my carpenters waited for 3.5 hours on a gas line and then they would only let him buy $10. There are police troopers at every functional gas station I’ve seen, to control the line and ease tensions/possible rioting. It’s a hyper-local problem – places an hour away are fine – but the paradox of it is that of course it takes gas to get to where the gas is. I’ve seen gas lines more than a mile long, hundreds of cars; I saw people sleeping in line at 5am; and the stations sometimes run out before you can even get to the front of the line. I wanted to get far enough away from that while I still had enough gas to do it, so I used up my remaining gas and headed out to a city I knew had very few power outages. I was worried that it would still be crazy and that I’d end up stranded out there with no more gas, but I was fortunate. I had also squirreled a couple cans of gas away in my mom’s garage for absolute emergencies but I have a pretty high bar for reaching what I consider “emergency.” ie, I would have called out of work rather than dip into those cans.
As of today my workplace is barely functional just because we cannot run our trucks anywhere. We cannot get the lumber we need to build things, the paint to finish the projects we’ve already built, etc. Some of our regular clients called us begging us to run a delivery service for them (that is not what we do) but we have no gas to even deliver our own stuff. We called around trying to rent trucks but all the rental agencies are out of gas too. Still, we are lucky to have power – not much in this part of NJ has power yet, it seems. Lots of the NJ malls have opened their electrical outlets to the public and people have just been bringing blankets and pillows and camping out in the mall corridors, charging everything. I’m lucky to have internet and power at work.
My mom still has no power at her house and it’s quite cold here now. Not cold enough that I would really consider it “cold” under normal circumstances, but definitely cold enough to make you miserable when you’re in it for hours at a time. Driving is dangerous since lots of traffic lights are still out, even at major intersections – everything has basically become a 4-way stop. My mom was supposed to have her stent removed after surgery on Monday but that got canceled, and she was in pain for the last few days but she was able to get it removed yesterday, so that’s good.
I am a Girl Scout at heart so I prepared well and began conserving food, water, and gas supplies before the power even went out, plus I secured everything really well – the garage door to keep it from flying away, etc – so we’ve been faring pretty well overall. I had frozen huge blocks of ice that we’re still using to keep some food – some places are open and selling food but they run out of things and I don’t like relying on that. My mom has a gas stove so when it gets really miserable she’s been boiling water to steam-heat the house a little bit. I have an 18V Makita flashlight that I charge spare batteries for while at work – it lights up an entire room like a normal lamp so that’s been a huge help. Lots of trees fell down on my mom’s street and I chainsawed a bunch of them up on Tuesday, which was pretty fun.
I know people who lost homes, people whose cars floated and crashed into things, etc, and I’m not really able yet to wrap my head around the extent of everything in lower Manhattan. The videos of the flooded South Ferry station, the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel underwater, the transformer substation exploding, etc, are chilling. I was very concerned about the elderly in Lower Manhattan – NYC is such a vertical city that so much of the damage can really go unseen: old or infirm people stranded on high floors without functional elevators, pitch-black exit stairways becoming a hazard, etc. With no way of calling for help or getting out I worried that there was a lot of suffering going on in those buildings and I hoped that enough young/able people stayed behind and could help their neighbors. Fortunately humanitarian-aid trucks have started heading in alongside the infrastructure-repair trucks. That made me feel a lot better.
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Thank you for your thoughts. :)
I also worry about how this could affect voter turnout/voting capabilities. I don’t really know what will be done about that.
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I’m really glad that you are okay Alexandra. I am too young to remember Andrew down here in Florida, but I do remember Charley and that was pretty devastating with just the winds, we didn’t even get much flooding. I can’t imagine how NYC is going to manage all the rebuilding and everything with all the damage to the infrastructure, it’s just devastating. I was watching video clips from NYC and Atlantic City online all day yesterday. I hope that the efforts to get everything back to as normal as possible go as quickly and smoothly as possible.
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Thanks Jack. Here is a video of the substation exploding http://gothamist.com/2012/10/31/heres_the_most_dramatic_video_of_th.php I have friends who live near this and they said that seeing that explosion and then being immediately plunged into total darkness, no lights or news or information or contact of any kind, just rising waters and the screaming wind, was utterly terrifying.
Here is a video from the MTA’s survey of a subway station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xkdv0H31d8 Really scary. My station has some minor flooding and is still being pumped out but is nowhere near as bad as this one. I feel like as long as it’s all underwater anyway they should just squirt some soap down there ;)
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That explosion is freaking awesome/terrible, omg. I can’t imagine how scared everyone was. It just really blows my mind that the NY subway systems have been basically in place for a hundred years and the underground has never sustained this type of damage. It’s insane.
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I love that video!
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