This past weekend's weather resembled a kind of hell, but we were thankful the city managed to avoid another blackout. Not only did Con Ed set a weekend power usage record, we also got slammed with thunderstorms bringing a few inches of rain. Parts of northern NJ are without power until tomorrow afternoon, but NYC seems to be all right, not counting some flickering due to brownouts and mometarily glitches. Gothamist's own personal experience with the rain yesterday turned out usually 10 minute trip from Penn Station back to home into a 1 hour sweaty journey, thanks for a flood condition at an uptown station, with a bunch of other ragtag straphangers who bonded by asking subway conductors if the uptown C train was actually running and clapping when it arrived after three A trains and four D trains. Misery loves company!
Today's weather is supposed to be in the mid 80s with a "slight chance of an afternoon shower or thunderstorm," according to WNBC.





At least you weren't trying to fly into an NYC airport. After circling over Cleveland for a while, my flight was diverted to Rochester for three hours to get more fuel and get clearance. Then, once we got to JFK we couldn't park at any gate to de-plane because there were so many delayed flights. Finally, the taxi line was over an hour. It sucked.
smitty, you should have taken the airtrain. although, i'm sure with all that rain, it probably broke and the subway was probably malfunctioning too.
all i had was some lovely drainage backup.
Didn't you have that drainage problem fixed?
yeah, it ended up being 3-4ish in the morning so the airtrain option/transfer to A train/F/G/to R to get to Greenwood was less than appealing. sigh.