These are rough days at Gawker HQ. If you ask the right clerics, the Good Lord ran wild on Babylon for SODOMANIA 2012.

All that stuff I said about somebody else having the best Halloween costume? My bad for not checking in with Josh Sundquist.

The Whitehall subway station stop in downtown Manhattan, via Gov. Cuomo's Instagram feed.

Pay no attention to the old chestnut that you can’t attribute any one storm to climate change. Climate change did cause Hurricane Sandy, according to Scientific American senior editor Mark Fischetti:

New Jersey governor and Mitt Romney surrogate Chris Christie did not mince praise for President Obama’s response to Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy, telling Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos, ”the administration, the president, himself and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate have been outstanding with us so far.”

Here's a photo of the aftermath of the huge fire that devastated Breezy Point. [image via AP]

This guy ("shizzlemynizzle" of LiveLeak) is like the Double Rainbow guy of trees falling down during Hurricane Sandy.

• At least sixteen people died (seven in New York)

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Is "Hurricane Crush" a thing? Let's make it a thing. Lydia Calas, who's been interpreting Mayor Mike Bloomberg's various Hurricane Sandy press conferences into American Sign Language, is clearly New York's Hurricane Crush, thanks to her engaging expressive skills. Just listen to Twitter:

Kanye West came to Kim's boring Halloween thing after all. She went as a mermaid (who was blonde for no reason).

Hurricane Sandy lay waste to a large section of Atlantic City's iconic Boardwalk, with the storm itself still several miles off shore.

"We always had to make a conscious decision to make the same movie over again, only each one would be slightly different," says Steve Miner, the director of the second and third Friday the 13th installments (and associate producer of the first), in the franchise's oral history, Crystal Lake Memories. Indeed, by 1982's Friday the 13th Part III, the series was already repeating itself: once again, we watched a formerly bullied giant mama's boy stalking dumb kids in a rural setting, killing some in ways he had killed their predecessors (through-the-bed stabbing from below got a reprise). The climax virtually repeated that of the first film's except it was Jason who was doing the slaying and his now-decomposing mother who did the final-scare popping out of the water. They just traded roles, of course — shifting bodies around was business as usual.

With the bleakness of Hurricane Sandy closing in all around—at least on the East Coast—let us not forget that Halloween is also nearly here. To better get our minds off the violent terror that is Mother Nature, we thought it might be a good idea to revel in the slightly less damaging terror of humiliating old Halloween costumes. Because what better way to while away the hours inside than by remembering what a cute or stunningly awkward and lonely child you used to be?

Log on to the Weather Channel's website to get the latest update on Hurricane Sandy and you may see what looks like a handy tool in the top right corner: "See friends at risk."

One thing you should not do, even though it looks like one of the Top Three Funnest Experiences a Human Being Can Have, is ride your jet ski through the flooded streets of your beachfront community during Hurricane Sandy, like this guy. YouTube user Right Coast Surf posted this video of himself tooling around a flooded Manasquan, New Jersey today. (Which, as Gothamist points out, is under mandatory evacuation.)

There's at least one New Yorker hoping the subway system completely floods today: the New York Post reports that Katie Holmes' Chelsea subway stop has recently become host to three advertisements for the Church of Scientology.

Netflix has finally blessed patient Arrested Development fans with their first official glimpse of the show's highly anticipated fourth season, which is set to premiere in January.

This is an understatement in terms of what's happening outside and it's a love song, anyway, but I don't know — it seems pretty appropriate regardless.

There are very few days 50 million people get permission by their employers and city officials to "stay home and be safe" which some people interpret as an open bar until Hurricane Sandy's temper tantrum ends. So please inform us in the discussion system what state of inebriation you're planning to be in once those gale-force winds start uprooting trees and stray cats across the city in the next few hours. If you plan on adding any illegal substances to your Emergency Stay-At-Home Pack please feel free to suggest your own concoctions since some Gawker editors are mulling how to best enjoy the Frankenstorm show but still maintain enough capacitation to evacuate in a makeshift canoe.