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Ray's Hurricane Sandy Story: Sleeping in the Morgue
from Joel Osteen's Ark · #60
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minRay recounts working during Hurricane Sandy, including a bizarre story about a trash can full of dog heads and a ritually sacrificed turtle shell at his job, and ultimately sleeping overnight in a morgue full of bodies.
- 25:23Hurricane Sandy was the hurricane of Ray's lifetime, completely destroying the area where he lived.
- 26:01After Sandy, trains weren't running and people couldn't leave the city—the last train out would be completely packed with no information on when service would resume.
- 26:26Ray slept in the morgue the first night after Sandy because hotels were destroyed and there was nowhere else to go.
- 26:52The morgue held fifteen to twenty bodies, plus overflow from funeral homes whose refrigeration was knocked out by the storm.
- 27:15The smaller back fridge contained a trash can of dog heads and a giant turtle shell from a woman training her kids to ritually kill dogs for rabies testing.
- 28:06Ray decided to throw out the useless turtle shell to make space, treating the crisis as an opportunity to clean up.
- 28:39Ray wasn't scared sleeping with the dead—he had a couch in the back, an iPad, and was actually comfortable with the situation.