Transit Strike Looming...get your golashes ready!

Well, it seems that the terrible transit strike plague has spread northward from Philadelphia to NYC. The word on the street is that the MTA employees will begin striking at 12:01 am Friday morning (that's Thursday night for those of us who stay up past midnight). The impact of such a strike would be pretty crippling to the city, and would piss me off something awful. While it would be a nice excuse to not go into work, there are things that I need to do at work by the end of December that cannot wait. This being so, I would feel obligated to head into work at least a few days a week even if there is no transportation. I've been offered a car ride from WIlliamsburg, Brooklyn...but that's about an hour walk from my apartment (at least). So the only options left for me would be: walking to work (about a two hour hike in 15 degree weather) or taking the Long Island Railroad and hour east into L.I. and then an hour and a half west back into Manhattan. Pretty much anything I do will be an epic trek. Compared to the nice, leisurely 35 subway ride that I currently have.
All of this complaining is really a non-issue at this point. But it's best to prepare for the possibility by only thinking of the most awful outcomes. Otherwise it wouldn't be whining.

PS- Saddest strike ever: