No flights to NYC

Minks & I were up at 4am, in the car by 4:30am and at the United counter at LAX by 5:10am only to be told that our flight was cancelled, that all the morning flights were cancelled and the only possible flight they could put us on was via Pittsburgh (and seriously, you don't want to be stuck in a snowstorm in Pittsburgh at the best of times), due to bad weather in NYC. Jumby, reached at the W, confirmed that Manhattan resembles a winter wonderland, that it had been snowing since 4am and that great banks of snow line the streets (actually I'm taking liberties - that last nugget was from another friend in the city). So, no pizza from Otto for us tonight. No MoMA, no ice skating in the Park, no Hairspray, no crusing down Madison, no Takashimaya. Minksy is being brilliant, very stiff upper lip after initial tears. I feel awful for her.