Okay, just to give you the news...

[conuly]

Ferry crashed, coming from Manhattan. Everyone in the family is fine (thank the appropriate deity, if any) so that's good. What didn't get mentioned AT ALL until just recently, and only because the reporter used to go to Stuyvesant is that this is a SCHOOL boat, the 3:00 and 3:30, that's when all the kids in schools in the area (mostly Stuy, though there's a few other schools with a large Staten Island population) head home. But there's only 10 confirmed dead, I think.

Also, one of the captains on the boat (there's two) went home, god only knows why they let him, and either attempted or committed suicide, nobody's sure which. Not to disparage the other loss of life, but I think his is the greatest single tragedy, nobody else has any guilt associated with them.

Now to figure out how I'm getting to school tomorrow...