Seven Days . . . SEVEN DAYS OF RAIN!

The Times finally runs a human interest piece about this crazy rain (after all, Times readers are interested in the weather, too!), and somehow manages not to Tom Wolfe it up too much. Or perhaps not — let’s run the special New York Times Tom Wolfinating Check:

• Tourists from California? Check.
• Stockbroker? Check.
• Woman in Queens hair salon? Check.
• The guard at Downtown Brooklyn’s Fulton Mall? Check.
• Administrative Assistant living in Bed-Stuy? Check.
• Woman in calf-high suede boots (idiot!)? Check.
• Mother? Check. (Does she live in Brownsville? Yes!)
• Poodle? Check, check, check!

The Tom Wolfinator Machine gives this Times story high marks for vapid “cross-section” of the city (“high marks” but not “highest marks” — need more homeless).