Last night we were one of the many fools stuck at Newark Penn Station due to the entire Northeast Corridor of Amtrak being knocked offline.  After four hours of “delays” on the line the police department finally took over public address system and announced that there was no train service anywhere from the station and that buses were the only option to get anywhere. 

What they didn’t say was that only one bus per hour to NYC was the real option and that thousands of people were waiting for said once an hour bus with threats of arrest by the police for not being on the overflowing sidewalk.  After a ride from Fiancee’s folks to TImes Square (thank you again so much!) and riding the subway sloooowly back to Brooklyn, our journey was about four or five hours long.   

Upon getting to Brooklyn we found that people are still under the belief that it is good to open an umbrella in a wind storm.   

This morning we strolled over to the cupcake shop and found this poor tree was ripped in half.

Despite it being obvious that the winds were no match for TREES, people still had their umbrellas open in this wind.

It’s good to know that the damage a nor’easter can do cannot harm the wit of a fool.