I received this email alert:

UPDATE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE CLOSED TO ALL TRAFFIC

DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE CLOSED TO ALL TRAFFIC UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
03:46:56PM 10/29/12

It is a good thing that I did not go to work today. Right about now I’d be heading north through Westchester hoping that the Bear Mountain Bridge was still open. If that was not open, I’d have had to go up to Newburgh.