Today I received an email from a former colleague who works at Hanscom Air Force Base outside Boston. He reminded me that when we were both stationed at Griffiss Air Force Base outside Rome, New York in 1993, our commander called everyone together on Friday, March 17, 1993 to inform everyone in the unit that the base had been placed on the president’s Base Realignment and Closure Commission list for potential closure or realignment. After a few words about the list, he told us we were dismissed and we were to go directly home because a huge storm was headed our way.
It was sunny at 1430 (2:30 p.m. for those of you who need the translation). It started to snow heavily about 90 minutes later. By the time it stopped snowing about 30 hours later, we had 50 inches of snow on the ground. We shoveled out on Sunday and went to work on Monday as if there had been no storm.
My colleague told me they closed Hanscom around 1400 today and the base will remain closed tomorrow and maybe even on Wednesday.
I guess the self-anointed people living in the state with the “smartest” populace (The fools seem to equate average years of education with “smartness”.) seem not to have developed a plan to dig out of what in central New York or Wyoming or other states in fly-over country in the northern Great Plains would be a minor inconvenience.
I can see all the politicians requesting their states be declared disaster areas (New York and Massachusetts ARE disaster areas, but not because of the impending storm!) and then sticking their hands out for federal funds from the people in Wyoming and the states in the northern Great Plains.
Rome, New York = population of 34,950 people and 466.4 people per square mile.
“The Greater Boston area is home to an estimated 4.5 million, making it the 10th largest metropolitan area in the United States. As a commuting region, Greater Boston has an even larger population of 7.6 million, which makes it the 6th largest Combined Statistical Area in the country. Boston has a density of 12,900 people per square mile.”
http://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/boston-population/
A bit of a difference.
Population density has quite a bit to do with it.
Don’t be so arrogant.
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