When the attached notice was slipped under our door yesterday I thought it was a bit extreme. But since then things have escalated somewhat, there has been a state of emergency declared and the city has been locked down for the weekend. So there will be no public transport, Broadway shows have been cancelled en masse, thousands of flights have been cancelled, supermarkets are closed, and hundreds of thousands of people have been encouraged to evacuate the city. So I have dug out our mining headlights, brought my watermelons ( now the size of tennis balls ) in from the terrace and will let you know what happens next….