Crazy transportation issues Sunday

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We are pretty much out of coffee so I decided to go to Whole Foods yesterday. That's the only place I buy fresh coffee beans from. To get there by transportation I usually take a railway, then transfer to a bus, and then take the subway. It turned out that the railway was not stopping at my stop so I had to walk to a bus instead. Instead of the usual 25-27 minute walk (to the train) I had to walk at least 40 minutes to the bus. While I was waiting to cross the street to get to the bus stop I noticed my bus passing by. I had missed the bus but at least I didn't have to wait that long for the next one. It was only about a 13-minute wait. When I finally got to where the subway is, it turned out the subway was not running either. So I went to a bus instead. The scheduled bus and the next scheduled bus after that one never showed up. When the bus finally came at least 50 minutes had passed. It was rather chilly out and to wait that long for a bus was crazy. I wasn't gonna leave though as I already traveled a long way. After I got on the bus I got a call from my husband telling me that he finished work. I told him I just got on the bus. He told me to stay on the bus and said that he'd meet me at a bus stop he was close to. So that's what I did. This saved me time. And I was grateful for that. Usually on weekends subways may not stop on certain stops or be rerouted along other subway lines... But buses usually don't have changes unless there is some parade or street fair going on. There was nothing like that in this case. When I left the house I knew that the railway train was not running but I had no idea that the subway train was not. I checked to see if the subway train I needed was running normally, prior to leaving the house, and was told by my Maps widget that the service is good when actually that was not the case. Next time I will only rely on the MTA website for service updates and advisories.