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Hurricane Sandy and Life in Hell's Kitchen
from #169 - We're The Dirtbags | The Tim Dillon Show · #169
4 min
Tim describes his cramped five-story-walkup tenement apartment with a kitchen shower and hallway toilet, and recalls Hurricane Sandy devastating Long Island while he rode it out watching Breaking Bad.
- Tim lost his phone during Hurricane Sandy and had to go to Sprint the next morning.
- The first time he lost his phone was in 2013 when he moved to a five-story walk-up tenement in New York City with two comedians who were married and fighting bitterly.
- The 1911 building had no elevators, just five flights of stairs, and his railroad apartment had a room with no door and a steam pipe at the foot of his bed that would burn his foot.
- The kitchen had a shower in it with just a curtain, so someone would be washing while he was frying eggs or heating baked beans.
- Tim was 25, thrilled to be living in the city after the mortgage collapse, and had been doing comedy for two years when God decided to destroy Long Island with Hurricane Sandy.
- Hurricane Sandy ruined homes throughout his town of Island Park, with boats floating down Main Street and four feet of water in lower Manhattan.
- His loser friends are still using Hurricane Sandy as an excuse in 2019, claiming they were going to do things but got delayed by the hurricane.