A subway at 5:40AM would do it.

Yeah, matter of priorities.

Reminds me of a photo of impoverished farmers who marched on Washington in the 1920s carrying a huge banner the read "WE HAVE FED YOU ALL FOR 10,000 YEARS!" - which is, approximately and metaphorically, accurate.

That 'civilization' has been a great thing, no?

The Chester Himes novel, THE HEAT'S ON, was a good one - all about 2 black undercover cops with their own heavy methods in Harlem; full of good quirky characters and dialogue, criminal scheming, murder etc., and fast-paced as hell - and, in the conclusion, a final explanation of how the cops figured out who did what to whom and why that is bloody amazing and ingenuous. Glad to have finally read this guy.
Next book club meet at Park 6:30PM Wednesday August 2 - book is ISLAM, by Alfred Guillaume, pub. 1954, 56; a Pelican Original, obviously written for non-Muslims, by a serious scholar. If anybody can access a digital copy please do and respond here, otherwise we'll work out hard copies and/or produce a pdf.

@Philou: And there you go -but the fault here is with the weather, which we need to do something about - suggest global warming etc. might well be involved. I'd be surprised if some flights were not cancelled or delayed as well.
Assume the relevant buses were running, but probably a bit slow.
'Everything is connected to everything else' - enables plenty of opportunities, scary realities. Not sure we're up to it - tragic about those dinosaurs, but at least they can't be blamed.

Note that 'civilization' project money might well be used for 'civilization' in the poorer areas of the countryside - better, affordable health facilities, schools - you know, crude things like that.