You may have seen or received an email from the MTA already informing you that public transit will be shutting down at noon tomorrow for the coming Hurricane. We also received communication from the Y that they will be closing at 2pm tomorrow. So, for obvious reasons, church IS cancelled this coming Sunday.
Please stay at home or in a safe place during the storm. As we said in an earlier communication today (which you can read below), if you are in a low lying area or just feel uncomfortable where you are, we have several locations available for you to go to during the storm.
As a reminder, the MTA will be shutting down at noon tomorrow, so, if you are going to stay somewhere other than your home, please make arrangements to do so before then. They are also speculating that subway service will not be up and running again until possibly Monday afternoon. There is also the possibility of subway tunnels flooding under the rivers, so, if you're in one of the boroughs please note that it could possibly be longer before you can take a train back into Manhattan.
If you have any other questions or concerns about this storm or your personal safety please contact us at info@gracenyc.org and we will respond as quickly as possible.
Again, please take any necessary precautions to stay safe during the storm.
At Grace, we're not just your local church, we're also your resident meteorologists for all the latest with Hurricane Irene (okay, that might be taking it a bit far...).
We do want to communicate with everyone, though, concerning the storm that seems to be headed our direction. Again, with the variables that weather brings, we are NOT canceling the Grace Sunday Service at this time. We will make that decision closer to time and email everyone by Saturday night with the latest news.
We do, however, want to be prepared should this storm hit New York City as it has the potential to be a decent sized storm. The city is preparing itself as well for the storm and released a local hurricane map. This map shows the low lying areas in and around the city that are prone to flooding in storms like this. You can view or download this map here. You can also put your address in at this website to check and see if you are in a hurricane evacuation zone.
That brings us to one of the purposes of this message. If you are in a flood zone or, if you are just uncomfortable riding this storm out where you are, we are putting together places where people can gather and ride out the storm together. We have a few places already lined up should anyone need a place to go.
If you do need a place to go, please email Daniel Gilland at daniel@gracenyc.org. He will then provide you with some options of places that you can go during the storm. Also, if you would like to open up your place as one of the places that people can go, please email Daniel Gilland as well to let him know.
Again, at this time, we are NOT canceling the Sunday service. We are, however, taking precautions and doing what we can to be a prepared community should this storm affect us.
In addition to any future emails we'll be sending out, you can check back here for the latest news about our Sunday Service and any other information pertinent to our community.
Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns concerning this storm.
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If you've been watching the news, then you already know that this coming Sunday morning we might be right in the path of Hurricane Irene. So, what does this mean for Grace's Sunday service? Well, besides potential buckets of rain and high winds, we're just not sure yet. Being that weather is unpredictable we're going to keep watching this storm right up until the last-minute. So, as of right now, plan on receiving an email from Grace on Saturday night and we'll let you know the plan.
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