Omelets
A friend who lives in the Midwest recently came to visit New York, and I made plans to meet him for lunch. The train trip from my New Jersey town to New York Penn Station takes less than 40 minutes, and many people live here especially for the convenience of commuting by rail into the city. Alas, on that particular day, my jaunt into NYC was not to be. I was walking to the train when I got an alert that all trains in both directions on my line were cancelled indefinitely, because of a problem with wires. I could have driven to a stop on another line, sure, or even all the way into the city, but I didn't know where I was going or where I would park when I got there, and my window to make it in time for lunch didn't allow much time to figure those things out. My friend and I settled for a phone catch-up instead. New Jersey Transit is plagued by all kinds of problems, but its overhead wire issues are caused by extreme heat , and we have had plenty of that all over the United Stat