"This is a serious situation"
Posted on 01/27/2015 6:58:11 AM PST by KeyLargo
Bill de Blasio on Blizzard Bust: ‘Better Safe Than Sorry’
By Jillian Jorgensen | 01/27/15 8:29am
After a much-hyped blizzard-that-wasn’t, Mayor Bill de Blasio said this morning that he was glad the city had prepared for a worse storm and that New York would be getting back to normal quickly.
“We thought we were going to get something much bigger,” Mr. de Blasio told CNN “New Day” anchor Chris Cuomo (who happens to be the brother of Gov. Andrew Cuomo).
Forecasts of two or even three feet of snow led Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo to essentially shut the city down. Mr. de Blasio rolled out a driving ban, lifted at 7:30 a.m., closed city schools and shut the Staten Island Ferry. Mr. Cuomo stopped all MTA service—an unprecedented move for a snow storm—and also banned travel on state roads.
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Intentional ?
NAW !!
Forecasts are wrong very often, weather can change so fast it’s hard to predict, the problem was chicken little panicking.
I doubt DeBlazio has the 4 inches to worry about, anyway......
Yea, it’s not like trains have never had to deal with snow before. Hell, they run in Alaska where 3’ of snowfall is a regular occurrence. Then there’s the Rockies, and the plains where I imagine the drifts can get quite severe.
Citified people act like all this weather stuff is a new and alien phenomena.
Snowmaggedon: another variation on Wag the Dog.
Ouch... Don’t bring up “inches”!!!!! Do NOT get Khent started again... the Tammy Baker Remedy quieted him down for a while...
Damn...
http://wgbhnews.org/post/what-mbta-owes-88-blizzard
What The MBTA Owes To The ‘88 Blizzard
Interestingly, the Blizzard of 1888 sparked Boston to put in a subway system - MBTA
And the irony of this idiocy is that they probably blew their budgets so when we have a genuine blizzard (you know, wind, thunder and lightning, trees down, etc.) there will be no money for cleanup. Happens every year.
What gets me is how hot weather affects trains.
I’m still trying to figure out what the point was in shutting down the subways.
They didn’t want people tracking filthy snow on their clean floors ,LOL
"This is a serious situation"
A few days ago, there was a panic thread here on FR that was spawned by some computer model that went crazy and was predicting an apocalyptic storm, with comments about needing yardsticks to measure the snowfall.
Well, the model was wrong, and what we actually got was pretty close to what they were predicting before the panic set in.
FIRE! Everyone out!
No?
Oh well. Better safe than sorry.
It was ridiculous. Hadn’t been done in over 100 years, and there was no need for it last night.
Look at this: they even kept the trains running all night—just didn’t take on passengers:
I never thought about training on the day off. That’s a great idea. I have a fairly independent job and can accomplish about 50-60% from home easily and there are always training webinars to catch up on. There are some projects I have that seem easier to slog through at home anyway and can usually keep one or two to the side for snow days. I can add training to the list.
Agreed. However many GOP executives, mayors, and town supervisors in the NYC suburbs and north towards Albany also made the same nanny-state, knee-jerk decision to close highways, roads, mass transit, government buildings, and consequently, many businesses before the first snowflakes hit the ground.
I think the early under response to Sandy (by Bloomberg) has emergency services spooked.
And again, predicting snowfall with these storms is very dodgy in the nj/nyc area. Even now.
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