Winter Storm fall out

There was so much build up to the snow storm that was supposed to happen last night. Much of it a reaction to the poor handling of the blizzard over the Christmas holiday. NYC was lucky in that it wound up not getting that much snow afterall. As much as 18 inches had been predicted by various news casts but only about 6 to 9 inches fell, some of which stuck but not even that much stuck on the ground in many parts of Manhattan. Boston was hit particularly hard as was Connecticut with 20 inches or more. Pretty much all transportation between Boston and NYC was cancelled. Our area of mid-town was marginally impacted though things are pretty quiet in the neighborhood today. NYC did a much better job in clearing the streets and roads and Mayor Bloomberg did not close any of the schools though lots of private schools closed. Airports cancelled a lot of flight but seem to be open now and getting back to business.

One unfortunate fall out for me is that I was looking forward to a former trainee of mine visiting and staying with us overnight as she had an internship interview at Montefiore Medical Center. She wound up stuck in Boston with no way to NYC. Another former trainee is supposed to be in town for a conference arriving today but I've not heard from her whether she was able to make it out here or not. Hopefully this weather will only delay her trip and not completely derail it. I look forward to visitors and the fall out of East Coast weather is forcing me to be more accepting and patient with circumstances out of my control.

So today is a quiet day, looking over recipes from Vegetarian Times, joining new money saving websites for various going ons in NYC, doing more investigation of where to buy a bottom freezer refrigerator for our apartment (we venture out to the suburbs on Saturday to find a big appliance store). Bob and I are both tall and so with a shortish apartment sized regular freezer-on-top refrigerator we aren't managing our cold food storage very well.  Also will be writing a letter of recommendation for a former trainee applying to a post doc position and continue to figure out where I can take the required graduate level classes for my NY state licensing requirements.

Despite the snow conditions not being so severe, I was so psychologically swayed by all the news of predicted severe winter storm that I am now completely in the mindset of just hunkering down to a quiet time in the apartment. I went grocery shopping yesterday for the week so we are well stocked with provisions.