transit strike/storm countdown, tick tick tick
The traffic is so incredibly bad right now - there isn’t more of it, but what there is has sunk to an all-time low - that I cannot imagine what it will be like on the streets if there is a transit strike. I am having to budget 45 minutes to get from Greenpoint to Bed-Stuy and at least 30 to get to some parts of Bushwick right now (shave 10-15 minutes off those times for ‘normal’ driving times). I don’t quite know what it is but it has been hell on the roads for the past week and a half.
It is strange how the strike inserts itself into all your plans. I had been trying to find a few hours to go into Manhattan to do nothing more than hit Macy’s for a few hours and pick up my mail at my p.o. box, and once I realized I wasn’t going to be able to do it today (work got busy all of a sudden), I did my shopping online, and will have to wait and see with the rest. I can always drive to Long Island or Connecticut if I have to. And, of course, the boyfriend is home for the holidays, so if there is a strike, I will be crawling out of bed early each morning to ferry him to Woodside to catch the LIRR.
All we can do right now is sit watching NY1 as though we will have an answer any time before midnight, and wait for the allegedly impending ICE STORM 2005. The precipitation right now is just small glistening speckles that look like large sugar crystals, and that turn transparent as soon as they hit the ground - but are still there, because you hear them crackle underfoot as you walk down the sidewalk.
