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<\/a>As Derek Hough begins all his interview answers, I, too, have to say “I’m not gonna lie”…it was really scary! The city planners probably over-reacted about the upcoming devastation, but I’m sure that was because they were so ill-prepared for December’s blizzard. And I do believe in being safe rather than sorry, so I’m grateful for the prep work for this potential disaster. But all the warnings were getting to me.<\/p>\nI was in bed in my extra bedroom, (it has the best AC, so I’ve been staying there,) and was really cozy. \u00a0But then I realized that my head was near a window and a giant tree was just outside it. So, exhausted as I was, I got up, cleared off my real bed, made it, (which is hard to do,) and transferred Froggy and his friend Doggy and Clarence’s Derek Jeter shirt (that I sleep hugging,) all to avoid getting killed in the hurricane.<\/p>\n
I wound-up having to go out and drive someplace else in Brooklyn at about noon on Sunday, and the town looked like the end of\u00a0On The Beach.<\/em> It was freaky.<\/p>\n But, knock on wood, my family and friends made it through pretty much unscathed, so I’m totally grateful. And I spent “Hurricane Sunday,” as I’m coining it, hanging with my friend Jeff in his cozy apartment, so it all worked out for me.<\/p>\n I hope you all made it through, as well. And that on my next visit to the east coast, the locusts stay at bay.<\/p>\n *Riffed off something funny my sister deadpanned about what comes next for us during this difficult summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WHAT’S NEXT–LOCUSTS???* I live in Los Angeles most of the time, and New York only about a quarter of the year. So I must just be lucky to have been in the Big Apple in recent years for a couple of Nor’Easters, The Great Blizzard of 2010, last week’s earthquake, and now yesterday’s hurricane!!! How<\/p>\n