Monday afternoon, rode CitiBike to Penn Station in the wind and rain. On the east-west streets it wasn't too bad. On the north-south streets the wind was so bad I could barely pedal the bike. Got to Penn Station in time to see that my train had been cancelled. Within a few minutes all the NJTransit trains on the departures monitor, at least those heading west beyond Newark, had been cancelled. The station was already packed with people waiting for those trains --three or four trains per hour for three hours or so.

We have a vacation house on Long Island. Call it a cabin, a cottage, whatever. It's little. I normally take my folding bike on the train to get there, but I didn't have time to go back to my office for the folding bike, and I didn't want to go back out in the rain anyway. I got on the train to Long Island, took a taxi when I got there. And this turned out to be a good thing; in the storm Monday night, the gutter on the roof at the back of the house backed up and let water into the house, and it came dripping through the bathroom ceiling. That kept me busy for a while; and in themorning I discovered that part of the fence had blown down; and some fascia on the house blew loose. I was occupied in domestic maintenance, still in the rain, until noon yesterday. So the NJ train fiasco worked to my benefit. It took other people 4 or 5 hours to get home Monday!

Today was delightful in comparison, blue sky, light breezes...