had issued a weather alert for the parade<\/a>, warning that wind gusts could reach speeds between 20 and 30 mph on Thursday afternoon, and up to 40 mph in the evening. <\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m feeling good, I\u2019m having a good time. I\u2019m excited,\u201d Clara Scott said.<\/p>\n
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Rain was also expected in the afternoon, but there was nothing but blue skies for the annual march.<\/p>\n
Attending the parade was a bucket list item for Allyson Merrigan, 30, and her husband, who were married earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got married and got to come to the Macy\u2019s Day Parade. I always wanted to come \u2013 forever. I watched it on TV for 30 years. It\u2019s a long-life dream \u2013 to come to the Macy\u2019s Day parade,\u201d Merrigan said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI like Snoopy. I always watched Snoopy at home and we got to see him in person.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city Emergency Management Department had issued a weather alert for the parade, warning that wind gusts could reach speeds between 20 and 30 mph on Thursday afternoon, and up to 40 mph in the evening. Erik Pendzich\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
She and 12 family members, including a 2-month-old baby, woke up at 4 a.m. to get their spot \u2014 and all were set to head to the Central Park boathouse for dinner.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the most energizing Thanksgiving that we\u2019ve ever had, better than the turkey trot in San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kathy Miller, 76, had traveled all the way from St Petersburg, Florida to be a part of the parade for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so excited. I\u2019ve always wanted to come,\u201d she said \u2014 while waving, laughing and shouting, \u201cHappy Thanksgiving!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI watched it every year on TV but it is better in person \u2014 no comparison. It\u2019s reality. It\u2019s just amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the gift that keeps on Thanksgiving. Thousands braved blustery winds and packed Big Apple streets to celebrate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11181,57,9,197,11,10,273,6967,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-54228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city-life","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-parades","15":"tag-thanksgiving","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}