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Well, we’re here! Unfortunately, the flag pole blocks our view a bit… but if I lean to the right, I can sort of see the pitcher’s mound… :)

Crowd getting off subway at stadium.

I’m at Grand Central, waiting to meet Scott and take the subway to Yankee Stadium.

CNN reports:

CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman and his crew, watching the storm from Southhampton Parish on Bermuda’s southwest corner, drove the streets shortly after the worst of the storm and said there were hundreds of fallen trees and downed power lines.

Tuchman said the hotel where he is staying was shaking and that a nearby beachside restaurant had been swallowed by the ocean. The winds also snapped power lines and trees, leaving them littered in the streets. In addition, roofs of buildings have been ripped off.

I wonder how Grotto Bay Beach Resort, where I stayed with the rest of the Newington High School choirs and orchestras during our trip to Bermuda in 1997, fared.

ABC News reports that four people in Bermuda are missing and feared dead.

The swells rippling outward from Hurricane Fabian are expected to produce 12-foot seas and 6-foot surf on Long Island beaches this weekend, according to Newsday. I might head down to the beach tomorrow after the game, to take a look at the waves.

Here’s a view of the setting sun reflecting off the Empire State Building this evening, as seen from the new Jobs & the City webcam at my office:

Here’s one from 35 minutes later, as night fell:

And here are some cool pictures that I took at the Canal Street subway station — the station right near my office — this afternoon. The bottom two pictures were taken with my wide-angle lens.

The Red Sox are leading the Yankees, 4-0, at the midway point of the second inning. Hurrah! With Pedro Martinez on the mound, hopefully that lead will hold! It would be great for the Sox to have momentum going into tomorrow’s game, because…

Tomorrow afternoon, I’m going to Yankee Stadium for the second time in my life. (The first time, the Yanks beat the Sox 6-5 on a bottom-of-the-ninth, two-out home run by Mel Hall.) I’m going with fellow Boston fan Scott from work, and I plan to wear Red Sox colors in the form of a red American flag shirt — that way, I can support my team in the Bronx without essentially wearing a shirt that says “BEAT ME UP.” :)

Hurricane Fabian made a direct hit on Bermuda this afternoon. Now it’s moving rapidly away, speeding out to sea. The bad weather should be over within a few hours, and presumably then the damage reports will begin to trickle in. Hopefully they won’t be too bad.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the tropics, it’s raining in northern Florida because of Tropical Storm Henri. No comment from French Guy Henri. :)

I just set up a webcam at my office showing the beautiful view of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building from the north side of the building. Eventually it will be fully integrated into the Jobs & the City website, but it’s not yet — so just click here and check it out!

From the National Hurricane Center (sorry for the all caps)…

THE BERMUDA WEATHER SERVICE JUST RELAYED AN UNOFFICIAL OBSERVATION OF 1-MINUTE SUSTAINED WIND OF 117 MPH…189 KM/HR…WITH A GUST TO 127 MPH…204 KM/HR…REGISTERED AT BERMUDA HARBOR RADIO.

The National Hurricane Center does not share my previously stated optimism about Hurricane Fabian’s recurvature. They seem to think that its position due south of Bermuda and its motion toward due north means exactly what you’d think it means: “Fabian is now expected to pass over or near Bermuda in about 24 hours or so,” the 11:00 PM discussion states. Well, sh*t.