A break from the madness

After trying, and failing, to find a hotel or a rental car, John and Wendy Bobbert took a cigarette break outside Kennedy Airport’s Terminal 8.

“The hotels, they're all booked,” John Bobbert, 49, of Grove City, Pennsylvania, said. “ I was gonna drive home tonight, but you couldn’t rent a car, everybody got them because all the flights are canceled.”

In between puffs, the couple’s breath lingered in the frigid air, a stark change from the warmth they felt on their vacation in the Dominican Republic, from which they flew earlier Friday.

Their second of two flights home was cancelled. They said American Airlines rebooked them on a 1:34 p.m. Saturday flight. After she finishes her cigarette, Wendy Bobbert, 50, said she will go inside and “see if they can do something better than that because I really don’t wanna hang out at the airport for more than 12 hours.”