Central Square = A Big Mess

Harvest probably doesn't have a generator. On one of the 11 o'clock local news shows, they showed someone from Harvest handing out free ice cream to passersby, because otherwise it would just melt.

ed managed to get from park street to central relatively easily yesterday around 5.45 and walked through central square with ease. all the lights were out at the central T station, and there was no power at any of the businesses along mass ave, which were forced to close. harvest co-op probably lost a good amount of food. i hope they had a generator or something to keep things cold.

it's like the time that water main broke near kendall a couple months ago. utilities in cambridge have had problems lately. also, ed's electricity seems to go off and then back on in the middle of the night fairly regularly and he's not happy about it.

I came out of the T at about 5:00 yesterday evening, and of course it was still all blocked off. There were probably 25 to 30 Cambridge Police officers, emergency helicopters overhead, and interestingly, the Red Cross emergency response unit which you normally see at house-fires and other tragedies were people are hurt or displaced. I couldn't find any mention in news stories about anyone being hurt (though I overhead a woman on the T say a man was killed when the manhole cover flew through his windshield).

Whatever happened today, must have been fixed by the time I took the Red Line through the area around 10 pm.