Having commuted to EWR... I can tell you when the northeast goes down there is absolutely no way to work or anything 1 state away.

But you know, when I commuted to JFK on the ER, I'd leave early in the morning for LGA and bus it over to JFK. Never had a problem and was rather astounded on a bad weather day by the shear number of people who just wouldn't make the commute in and it didn't seem to bother the company. At least not that I ever saw. My GRU was cancelled because the other FO missed the commute and I ended up walking the concourse to find flight after flight missing pilots. So not wanting scheduling to pick my poison, I chose Edinburgh.

And waited 3 hours for a new Captain. By the time we got to Canada the sun was up.

Which compared to Continental Express it was the complete opposite. There was no excuse for not showing on time. I ran into that several times but none worse than a buddy who's ID fell off his lanyard somewhere between the parking lot and TSA. I mean he had the lanyard around his neck when he got to TSA but no ID. He had arrived early so he had the time to go back and look but he just simply could not find it. He had to call the CPO for help, they were ticked. They told him he should've arrived earlier if he was going to need help with a lost ID.