Mom: So if you were in Battery Park in the evening, you didn't evacuate?

Me: No, I did. I brought my stuff uptown around 10 a.m.

Mom: So... you went back downtown?

Dad: Clearly she doesn't understand what it means to be evacuated.

Walking from 76th and 2nd to Union Square, Megan and I decided to cab it from 14th to Battery Park in interest of time. Again, for as long as we waited, things were pretty calm, much to the dismay of our journalistic intent.

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