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Will it snow this time?

By Jan Dembowski on February 9, 2010

Last Friday night the LIRR was talking about if 10 inches of snow fall, then they will shut down the entire train system. That only sounds bad since last time it snowed some poor people were kidnapped and held hostage against their will for many hours on a disabled train. The idea is that it [...]

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And now my car got broken into

By Jan Dembowski on August 9, 2008

Today was an odd day. Not bad exactly, but definitely odd.
I went to work for a scheduled systems upgrade.  Lily and the kids went to Central Park and after work we met in Chinatown.  When we returned to Long Island we found my front passenger window was broken and my GPS unit stolen.
Now I didn’t [...]

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Looks like no Amtrak strike

By Jan Dembowski on January 18, 2008

I heard on 1010 WINS this morning that a tentative agreement between 9 unions and Amtrak was going to be announced today. That’s a relief as both Lily and I both take the LIRR to Penn Station get to work. It would have been a pain for us to get to work, likely [...]

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Mineola train crash and the wrong restaurant

By Jan Dembowski on November 10, 2007

Wow. This image is from Newsday’s web site.

Lily and I usually try to catch the 5:53 PM to Ronkonkoma out of Penn Station. Thursday night all the passengers were told that there was a fatal car accident at Mineola. Luckily that accident was not fatal, in fact the driver was rescued with [...]

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