Tweet of the night re. Sandy and this country.

[RandySF]

Ken Shadford ‏@kenshadford
The fact that the NYU hospital is dark but Goldman Sachs is well-lit is everything that's wrong with this country.


https://twitter.com/kenshadford

[stopbush]

1. Er, doesn't it have something to do with where those places are located in the city?

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Actually, I think GS is in a worse spot, water wise. Nt

[femrap]

4. But not

on the top floor where Blankenfeld steals our money.

I hope NYSE is gone for a few days....that'll put a stopper up their butt.

[NYC Liberal]

8. Goldman Sachs building is downtown where power was cut off and the worst flooding was.

[cojoel]

18. Goldman Sachs building is in New Jersey

[NYC Liberal]

20. Goldman Sachs Tower (world headquarters) is at 200 West St in Manhattan.

[Voice for Peace]

3. can they turn GS into a hospital?

[femrap]

5. Only for The Rich! nt

[aletier_v]

6. mental hospital?

[ProudProgressiveNow]

7. That was a chilling tweet!

Thanks for posting.

[sheshe2]

9. Robin Hood

Come out come out from where ever u are! We need your merry band.
Guess that would be us!
Anyone voting on 11.06!!!!!!!?????

[DollarBillHines]

10. Yep. It's a long story, but...

I was in NYC during the last black-out.

W, Times Square.

Generators were running everything.

We bought a couple of carts of wine and beer and headed to the river.

The best few thousand dollars I have ever spent - a good time was had by all.

Now, I am in earthquake-ville (N Bay)

I will probably get killed by my own house.
DBH

[xtraxritical]

11. Hospitals in the USA always have emergency generators, I don't understand.

[Flatpicker]

12. Sounds like something went wrong

With the backups. They may have had them in the basement and they got flooded?

There evac'ing the hospital now.

This is a mess.

I'm getting it now. the fuel pumps to take the diesel to the generators were flooded to 2 feet over the top.
They shut down and that caused the backup generators to run dry.

[Hekate]

14. MSNBC said backup generators failed at the hospital

The backup to the backup plan is to evacuate the patients, which is what they are doing.

[Whovian]

13. American priorities. Saddening.

[Wednesdays]

15. K & R

[onecent]

16. K & R n/t

[win_in_06]

17. Two institutions: one for-profit, one non-profit. One common disaster. Two sets of results.

Is this the power of capitalism? The profit motive?

[AsahinaKimi]

19. Worth re tweeting..

done!

[Roland99]

21. Here's a pic of the GS building all lit up this morning >>>>