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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>>“We thought we were going to get something much bigger,”<<
Funny...his wife said the same thing on their wedding night...
I don’t think it’s so much emergency services as Cuomo’s and de Blasio’s political handlers who didn’t want to risk appearing to underrespond.
Still no good reason to shut the City down.
Per usual, the stock exchange wasn’t taken in by the hype and continued business as usual—even though many of their employees’ transportation was needlessly shut down by the state.
I remember in ‘96, the exchange stayed open later than it should have. One person who worked there had a heart attack and died because EMS couldn’t get there and transport him to a hospital due to street conditions.
This is easily a no win situation for the public officials. Particularly when NWS Upton was predicting a barn burner of snow totals.
We owned a house on Tiki Island, sold it in 2001. There was only a couple of hurricanes during the time we owned it. I miss that place.
Blizzard, transit closures cost NYC economy estimated $200M
Published January 28, 2015
Associated Press
NEW YORK – New York City lost an estimated $200 million in economic activity in the fizzled snowstorm and decision to shut down the transit system — a loss that wasn’t crippling overall but had the biggest impact on small businesses and hourly workers.
Consumers who would have otherwise bought cars or made other major purchases will likely do so a day or two later, said Adam Kamins, an economist with Moody’s Analytics, which came up with the preliminary loss estimate.
“For example, a holiday where people aren’t working would have a greater impact on the economic output than this storm,” Kamins said.
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