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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This reminds me of when they shutdown Boston, when the Marathon bomber was in Watertown 10 miles away.
Dry run.
I’m predicting a HUGE number of babies born in NYC nine months from now...
...fathered by two or three guys who defied DeBlasio and shoveled their way in. *SNORT*
They dodged the big snowfall by about 30 miles.
It is insanity on the left.
Liberal governors and mayors know that the first thing you do whenever something is happening is to declare a state of emergency. That allows the Feds to write you a check for a few billion dollars which can then be used for liberal causes, to purchase contracts from relatives’ and allies’ companies, and to slip into your next election fund.
It's when things are mandated by a wimpy panty waste, that affect others, because he gets too scared of some perceived difficulties.
6 inches is hardly “basically no snow” in New York City. New York is not Boston or Buffalo: a major weather system usually brings in warmer air from the ocean, meaning the same storm that brings major snowfall in Boston usually brings a lot of rain in New York. On average, NYC gets 2 feet of snow over an entire year, much closer to Washington (15 inches) than Boston (46 inches).
I you sure that you are not referring to anthromoronic global warming?
What a great metaphor for Alarmists of GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE-DISRUPTION.
The title could read...”Western Civilization Shut Down, But No Warming.”
Having seen your identical post on the thread about India rejecting Obama’s global warming bullstuff, I find the appearance here amusing!
**Airports remained mostly open.**
Right. LaGuardia will shut down during a spring shower, much less snow.
I would laugh at the fools in NYC, but cities in the south do the same thing.
Overreact.
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Difference is down South we don’t have salt trucks and plows. We have to shut down when we get a once every three year snow.
there absolutely is snow- not just enough for il duetche to shut down the city...another fail from comrade deblasio...
They were off by 30 miles.
Ahhh, NEVER MIND.
(These same idiots want us to believe their global temperature predictions when they can't even predict the next day's local weather!)
Mother nature’s winter snows are quite beneficial.
The rotten politicians 4 season snow jobs are destructive entities which plow us under instead.
Which “southern cities” ever get shut down?
That is classic.
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