Posted on 01/27/2015 8:31:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I haven't seen official snowfall totals yet, but judging from a glance out the window, it looks as if New York City might have gotten about 6 inches Monday night. Meanwhile, the entire city is shut down.
Schools, government, public transportation, private transportation, and — by virtue of the lack of transportation — most offices and businesses.
It's just absurd.
I've lived in New York for almost my whole life — 48 years and counting. I have seen the city weather many actually large snowstorms, including a 26-incher just a few years go. The city stayed open through all of them. The garbage-trucks-turned-snow-plows drove until the streets were clear enough for adventurous buses, trucks, and cars. The subways and buses ran. Airports remained mostly open. Homeowners shoveled their walks. Pedestrians navigated big snow piles and slush lakes. Car owners waited until they just couldn't wait any longer and then chipped their cars out of the massive ice-walls that had built up around them.
In short, the city slowed down for a little while. And, maybe, in extreme circumstances, schools shut down for a day or two. But the whole city never closed.
And this wasn't because massive snowstorms weren't forecast, by the way.
I can remember as a kid many times hearing excitement build at school about an impending blizzard that might blast the city and give us all an unplanned vacation day (and, at the same time, force parents with jobs and plans to scramble to figure out what to do with us). I can remember staying up late into the night, peering out my window into the snow, hoping enough would pile up that, early the next morning, just before I had to leave for school, the call would finally come.
But it rarely did.
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Mayor Don’tShovel Commie is the world’s best Meteorologist. Just ask him.
That tin horn DiBlasio LOVES playing God with peoples’ lives
I thought this was a story about nose candy, never mind.....
I would laugh at the fools in NYC, but cities in the south do the same thing.
Overreact.
Forecasters call for a chance of freezing drizzle and lows in the upper 20’s?
Schools and businesses start shutting down.
India can’t promise this because they would feel compelled to actually do the things they agree to do. China doesn’t have that problem.
Long Island had accumulations of 20+ inches hours ago, however. Forecasting snow isn’t easy.
"Hands Up! Don't Shovel!"
I was listening to Glen Beck on the way to work talking about how 6 inches of snow shot down NYC. They pointed out after the beating Bush took for Katrina politicians have become very skittish about something like that happening to them. So to C.Y.A. they will know now shut things down even if 9 out of 10 times looking back it was not justified.
HF
Mark this down as a dress rehearsal for the “coming future time”, when cities get locked down to search for “enemies of the State”...
But forecasting glowbull climate change sure is!
Snowmeggedon was as real as anthropomorphic global warming.
Not the snow storm, but the EXPECTATION of a snowstorm, is what shut the city down. There may be another source of foreboding and ennui - the virtual absence of any good economic news. Not a crash, but a STEEP dive.
Details later. Stay tuned.
Never waste a good crisis, even if it’s not one I guess.
Free DAYS OFF - A Commies dream!
A few seasons ago here in N Tx. they were forecasting some snow/wintry mix. They shut the schools down in advance. Didn’t get a drop or a snowflake out of it. dum-dums-—
Also I grew up on Long Island, NY.— in years past we just dealt with the snow and blizzards as being part of a normal winter.
This media frenzy hype is to be shunned most of the time.
A politician is OVER if his response to a weather event is inadequate.
NYers won’t blame DiWhat’shisname for an overreaction, because he seemed to CARE.
I don’t think this was a nanny state reaction. Basically, martial law was declared.Since when do politicians have the right to interfere with freedom of movement? The city was in lockdown.
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