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.
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).
What a great metaphor for Alarmists of GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE-DISRUPTION.
The title could read...”Western Civilization Shut Down, But No Warming.”
**Airports remained mostly open.**
Right. LaGuardia will shut down during a spring shower, much less snow.
there absolutely is snow- not just enough for il duetche to shut down the city...another fail from comrade deblasio...
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!)
It is all part and parcel of the infantilization of society.
All leftist utopias do it.
But Of Course: MSNBC Guest Blames Blizzard On Global Warming
Got 7 here in Pittsburgh. Have not skipped a beat.
And our terrain is WAY more challenging than NYC.
When Democrats see a potential challenge they simply surrender without even trying.
In my humble opinion, this entire event was nothing less than the Obama Administration 'pinging' the weather reporting media to see how easy it would be to shut down major metros.
I think we will see this again--with National Guard troops deployed 'to keep us safe' despite the lack of snow.
Global warming is to blame for this storm. Bill Nye the Science Guy says so!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifpfd-ydBHo#t=40
Response to this video from a poster on WUWT:
“The majority of conformists, and careerist “zeitgeist” followers like Nye, are not a bit wiser than the superstitious humans of the 16th century who believed every bad weather was produced by the devil and his witches.
Today, only the name of the devil has changed into “CO2” and the whole insane CAGW crusade is nothing else but a embarrassing and increasingly stupid witch-hunt…”
Response to the above: “The only difference now is; they want US to burn, not the devil and his witches.”
Blame the Commie pink fag.
LOL…this bunch of severely stupid Socialists can’t get enough government, so 72% voted a Communist in as mayor of NYC. They deserve the consequences.
Too bad “de Blasio” didn’t think of shutting down the grid and cutting off the gas pipelines. That flock of stupid sheep would have sat freezing in the dark, while 5” of snow fell outside.
Look for some new government program to be coming from the ‘devastating tragedy’
Dumba$$ Cuomo already proposed a “NY State government weather service” after Buffalo, NY got dumped on last month (6 feet of snow in one night)
As if a whole new government weather bureaucracy would be somehow better- when the normal weather services all predicted it exactly...
I hear next year they DeStazio is going to shut down NYC for the entire winter, from Dec 1 to February 28. Can’t be too careful.
We used to joke that was the signal for all the old ladies in DC to get in their Buick 225’s and drive north on Massachusetts avenue till they spun out and abandon them blocking the street.
The DC govt. would freak out and expend 80-90% of their salt supply on the first snowfall so they would need emergency funding to buy more salt for the next time.
In ‘79 over the Presidents day weekend there was 27” overnight on top of 9” on the ground. That paralyzed DC and nothing moved except for the farmers protest that was corralled on the Mall.
A bunch of farmers had driven their tractors and assorted equipment to DC to protest Carters’ actions on the agricultural market. As soon as they gathered on the mall DC govt. penned them in with dump trucks, buses etc. to keep them from blocking streets. Now the farmers were the only thing that could move and were able to drive around plowing streets with their tractors LOL
The reaction to this so called storm is merely one huge propaganda piece for the Global Warming(Now Climate Change)theory. The media is giving one huge blitz; i.e. wall to wall coverage 24/7.