We escaped (and I got two days off from work, MEGA YAY!!!), but beantown is getting slammed, Worcester too and that’s pretty far inland.
In the past few weeks, there've been A LOT of storms that have caused horrendous accidents.
What's my point? The lesson is that weather forecasting is imperfect and things change. Better to prepare ahead of time than have an impossible situation after a storm hits. This is just people complaining. People would be complaining if precautions weren't taken and the storm had a major impact on NYC.