We've had heavy, heavy rain since late yesterday, though, thankfully, intermittently. We had very high winds, though they too were intermittent in the City. Lots of flooding, though not where we are. But what this means is that I couldn't tell this was the longest night of the year. It never got light to speak off, due to the winter storm, all day. And now it is night again. Well, it was honestly night so early I didn't even notice, with rising to putting on electric light, and having it on all day. However, unseasonably, the temperatures rose to just shy of 60°. So el V went out and about from around noon on. As it turned out, the NYC subways continued to run and did not flood out.
Anyway, the FedEx package that was to be delivered today, with the visas of so many of us going to Oriente on the 2nd, arrived. The FedEx guy was wet, but triumphant.
I am really hoping the weather cooperates at 4AM January 2nd, unlike this past March, when a blizzard shut down JFK and we weren't able to go anywhere the day we were supposed to fly out. Today the local airports were shut down . . . .
In the meantime, it's been dark for a very long time. Ay-up. The shortest day of the year. And all things are, hopefully, pointing to Christmas and New Year's with friends, and thenm travel, with old friends and new ones!
Light, light, Solstice light, Christmas lights, New Year lights,
Caribbean light, are my immediate future.
AH -- I am hearing planes overhead, for the first time in a day and a half!
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