It’s another scorcher in the Big Apple…
June 29th, 2010 at 11:22 am ET
…and I just heard in the office that the reason for the insufferable delays this morning on the F line was a track fire. Jesus! On days like yesterday, I’ve often thought, in the bowels of Chambers Street and especially Brooklyn Bridge station, when the heat seems to pass the point of human habitability, that something might spontaneously catch fire. Apparently, something might.
And, not to be an old lady, but, you know “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” The problem with yesterday was that the day was just ****ing UNRELENTING, like a blast of exhaust out of a filthy clothes dryer full of old shoes and dog hair. The heat did eventually break (meaning: it dropped from 96 degrees to 87) in the late afternoon when the clouds rolled in, but the relief is over; today’s apparently going to be even worse.
So stay inside, drink a lot of fluids, maybe eat some fruit, and wait it out. Fortunately my office is air-conditioned…
Photo, by Edward O’Connell, is of a PATH track fire in 2004.
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