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Oooh, I hurt for you. But I do have a suggestion for future email protection -- find a provider who hosts an IMAP server (such as fastmail.fm, with whom I'm very happy). I don't know which Mac mail clients support IMAP, but its versatility can be a lifesaver. You can get mail locally through the client, but leave it online for permanent storage and view it over the web as well. I zip up my novel chapters now and then and email them to myself there. The monthly cost for a lot of email storage is quite reasonable. It's the best way I've found of having my cake and eating it, too.

Here in Seattle ferries are pretty important as well...we have a lot of people commuting across Puget Sound(though obviously not as many as Staten Island to Manhattan). Your ferry terminals seem to be constructed a lot differently than ours. Our ferries would have to be traveling parallel to the ferry slip to get any damage like that... the slips are fairly short as well as V-shaped, so the ferry coasts in and is held in place by engines and the surrounding pilings, which barely extend past the bow of the boat. Of course, all of our ferries are car ferries, though they look superficially like your ferries.

Our ferry people are watching the New York accident very carefully...as they said this morning, ferry people everywhere look carefully at things like this, to learn and (they hope) prevent duplication.

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