Rain, Rain, Go Away, Rain Took Me Back - To An Earlier Day
May 1, 2014 by Steven P. Velasquez, MICP Credit: www.nycareaweather.com A soaking rainfall introduced us to the month of May this year. Most of New Jersey got between 5 to 5 1/2" of rainfall over twenty-four hours. The normally miserable morning commute worsened exponentially as roads were impassible, routines were disrupted and tempers flared. My commute from the Keyport area of Monmouth County to Newark was one of them, but this guy ain't complaining, as my detours drove me into a chance meeting with a real-life " Ambulance Driver ." I abandoned the Garden State Parkway in search of perhaps longer, but at least moving, roadways. I traveled into Union County, past one of their submerged county parks, entered Kenilworth and out of sheer frustration, planted myself in a booth by a window to study Tranexamic Acid , eat some grub and spectate while my commuter cohorts sat paralyzed in their coffins trying to reach their daily grind. The Kenilworth Diner w...