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There Is Basically No Snow In New York — But, Absurdly, The Entire City Is Shut Down
Business Insider ^ | 01/27/2015 | HENRY BLODGET

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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TOPICS: Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: blizzard; deblasio; newyorkcity; nycblizzard; snow
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To: SeekAndFind

This reminds me of when they shutdown Boston, when the Marathon bomber was in Watertown 10 miles away.

Dry run.


21 posted on 01/27/2015 8:42:46 AM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m predicting a HUGE number of babies born in NYC nine months from now...

...fathered by two or three guys who defied DeBlasio and shoveled their way in. *SNORT*


22 posted on 01/27/2015 8:42:49 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: SeekAndFind

They dodged the big snowfall by about 30 miles.


23 posted on 01/27/2015 8:43:32 AM PST by alancarp
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To: SeekAndFind
Computer models cannot forecast the weather 12 hours in advance, but we are to believe their models that make predictions 50 and 100 years from now.

It is insanity on the left.

24 posted on 01/27/2015 8:44:01 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: SeekAndFind

25 posted on 01/27/2015 8:44:43 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberal governors and mayors know that the first thing you do whenever something is happening is to declare a state of emergency. That allows the Feds to write you a check for a few billion dollars which can then be used for liberal causes, to purchase contracts from relatives’ and allies’ companies, and to slip into your next election fund.


26 posted on 01/27/2015 8:45:00 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Responsibility2nd
That is THEIR decision to do that.

It's when things are mandated by a wimpy panty waste, that affect others, because he gets too scared of some perceived difficulties.

27 posted on 01/27/2015 8:45:33 AM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: SeekAndFind

6 inches is hardly “basically no snow” in New York City. New York is not Boston or Buffalo: a major weather system usually brings in warmer air from the ocean, meaning the same storm that brings major snowfall in Boston usually brings a lot of rain in New York. On average, NYC gets 2 feet of snow over an entire year, much closer to Washington (15 inches) than Boston (46 inches).


28 posted on 01/27/2015 8:46:22 AM PST by dangus
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To: Jewbacca

I you sure that you are not referring to anthromoronic global warming?


29 posted on 01/27/2015 8:47:10 AM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What a great metaphor for Alarmists of GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE-DISRUPTION.

The title could read...”Western Civilization Shut Down, But No Warming.”


30 posted on 01/27/2015 8:49:13 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: thorvaldr

Having seen your identical post on the thread about India rejecting Obama’s global warming bullstuff, I find the appearance here amusing!


31 posted on 01/27/2015 8:49:15 AM PST by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: SeekAndFind

**Airports remained mostly open.**

Right. LaGuardia will shut down during a spring shower, much less snow.


32 posted on 01/27/2015 8:49:19 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I would laugh at the fools in NYC, but cities in the south do the same thing.

Overreact.
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Difference is down South we don’t have salt trucks and plows. We have to shut down when we get a once every three year snow.


33 posted on 01/27/2015 8:51:12 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Their weather models suck, but their climate models are completely accurate you ignorant, racist, tea-bagging climate-change deniers!
34 posted on 01/27/2015 8:51:23 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the fascists.)
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To: SeekAndFind

there absolutely is snow- not just enough for il duetche to shut down the city...another fail from comrade deblasio...


35 posted on 01/27/2015 8:51:39 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Jewbacca

They were off by 30 miles.


36 posted on 01/27/2015 8:53:50 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Historic Blizzard! ...Storm of the Century!

Ahhh, NEVER MIND.

(These same idiots want us to believe their global temperature predictions when they can't even predict the next day's local weather!)

37 posted on 01/27/2015 8:54:21 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Cementjungle

Mother nature’s winter snows are quite beneficial.
The rotten politicians 4 season snow jobs are destructive entities which plow us under instead.


38 posted on 01/27/2015 8:54:29 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny, dontchyaknow.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Which “southern cities” ever get shut down?


39 posted on 01/27/2015 8:55:06 AM PST by subterfuge (Minneseeota: the laughingstock of the nation - for lots of reasons!)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

That is classic.


40 posted on 01/27/2015 8:56:22 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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