First Day on the Beat

Today is the first day RWI students will do any real reporting from our respective beats. Our assignment is to write a "Person on the Street" story based on interviews with six to 10 residents of our neighborhoods. We have to assess how New Yorkers feel about 9/11 and terrorism almost five years after the attacks.

That would be all fine and good. The problem is that the weather has been comically bad all day. Observe:

chance of precipitation: 100%

That's right. It's been raining all morning, with no sign of letting up. I wonder if this is some extension of Murphy's Law for RWI: "When you have to go out and do a lot of interviews, it will pour all over New York." I can't wait until it's December and we have blizzards while we're working on final projects.