Return to New York

The weather forecast for Thursday was not good - it looked like a band of thunderstorms were heading into the New York area, with a promise of prolonged periods of rain and thunderstorms all evening.  Fortunately, my flight arrived early afternoon, and although it was a little bumpy during the descent, landed safely.  I made my way to the hotel and have a room on the 4th floor again, where the wireless networking doesn't work properly.  The cabled network didn't work either, but now I've plugged the wire directly into the port on the wall, it seems to be working.

The hotel shuttle turned up after I'd only been waiting a few minutes, and I got to the hotel at around 5.20pm.  The front desk staff didn't believe me that there were thunderstorms due. Just before 6pm, a terrible storm struck New York, with lots of lightning, sheets of torrential rain, mostly horizontal in the gale force winds.  However, it was just heavy rain when the 6pm shuttle back to the AirTrain was ready to leave, so I went anyway.  This turned out to be a mistake.