This is what it was like in the Northeast today. Rainy and extremely windy, to the point of ripping down tree limbs across roads, train tracks and lawns. In the city, people could occasionally be seen hanging onto lamposts on street corners when the wind gusted up to 68 mph. People small and large were being buffeted around in the wind.

I don't think Mary Poppins could fly around in this. That brolly just isn't the right shape for liftoff.

I've been slammed into the side of a building several times before in high winds, and today was no exception. The only difference was that it was a swank apartment building instead of a sports arena. The doorman was kind enough not to laugh. At least not until he got back in the lobby. ;)