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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I hear next year they DeStazio is going to shut down NYC for the entire winter, from Dec 1 to February 28. Can’t be too careful.
Buffalo, NY. area lake effect snow totals 11/18/14.
Ranges list from 2 to 51 inches.
I don’t know if they start drinking but they really, truly do drive their cars off the road en masse.
drives their car into a ditch and starts drinking.
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It’s just the reverse they start drinking THEN drives into a ditch.
We used to joke that was the signal for all the old ladies in DC to get in their Buick 225’s and drive north on Massachusetts avenue till they spun out and abandon them blocking the street.
The DC govt. would freak out and expend 80-90% of their salt supply on the first snowfall so they would need emergency funding to buy more salt for the next time.
In ‘79 over the Presidents day weekend there was 27” overnight on top of 9” on the ground. That paralyzed DC and nothing moved except for the farmers protest that was corralled on the Mall.
A bunch of farmers had driven their tractors and assorted equipment to DC to protest Carters’ actions on the agricultural market. As soon as they gathered on the mall DC govt. penned them in with dump trucks, buses etc. to keep them from blocking streets. Now the farmers were the only thing that could move and were able to drive around plowing streets with their tractors LOL
I thougt you Carolinians made french toast. You know, everybody rushes out and buys bread, milk and eggs....
CC
The reaction to this so called storm is merely one huge propaganda piece for the Global Warming(Now Climate Change)theory. The media is giving one huge blitz; i.e. wall to wall coverage 24/7.
I watched CNN last night and two guys got in the shot for a snow ball fight. The reporterette, got really huffy with them: Guy’s we’re doing a live newscast here!”
They moved off screen. Then she began again; “ As I was saying, there is no one out here right now...”
Don Lemmon asked her, if she wanted to break away, because he was afraid that she was dealing with a couple of tough guys.
They are liar and whimps on CNN and that’s why I watch. The jokes write themselves.
Is he questioning the judgement of De-blah-blah? How dare he!
That will not stop the Mayor from trying to exploit or capitalize on the situation.
Big deal! Take a day off and have some fun playing around in the snow!
Us midwesterners are laughing at NYC. During the Groundhog blizzard four years ago, we were open right up until the start. I could still go and get coffee and go to the supermarket during the storm.
Well, I guess if you’re thirsty enough you’ll drink ditch water.
What?
Oh.
Alcohol. I see.
LIBTARDS run the CITY and THE STATE.....
Deblobio and Cuomo = DUMB AND DUMBER ON STEROIDS...
Cuomo is have heart palpitations over the corruption probe... ridin dirty
Which is why that Communist DeBlasio shut down the city.
I saw a clip on Fox of his call in to Al Sharpton's MSNBC show. DeBlasio congratulated Sharpton on his work to combat climate change, and asserted that the snowstorm was proof it was happening.
He was using the snow to promote the hoax and produce a panic.
The weather forecast for the Bangor, ME area is pretty accurate. Schools and colleges are shut down and a good number of businesses. We have had about 8-10 inches of snow since 5 am. Driving is very hazardous with blowing and drifting snow across the roads. The snow plows are keeping the main roads open. I took my son to work this morning at Wal-Mart, about a mile away. Ten cars in the parking lot; most everyone was driving slowly but there were a couple of pickup drivers that were going way too fast for road conditions.
I’m about 30 miles northeast in CT—and we just got a handful of inches as well.
OOOHHH GOODY, free riverfront and beach front property.
A bunch of p*ssy yankees. I was born in Saskatchewan Canada and we average a foot of snow and more every winter, and we have never, ever “shut down” unless it snows 5 straight days..
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