Posted on 11/02/2012 2:35:19 PM PDT by John W
NEW YORK – The New York Marathon will not be held Sunday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Friday, backtracking just a few hours after he defended the decision to hold it despite heavy criticism as the city struggles back from Superstorm Sandy.
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Oh boy. We would be blitzed by the...Forward...alone.
Bloomberg got pwned! Those refugees refused to leave their hotels on the Is-land! Love it.
‘Kay, making more sense. Thanks
We that live upstate hate that because NYC is a liberal haven, and has as many people in it as the whole rest of the state combined, we are considered one of the bluest states there is even though a lot of upstate is conservative. The state Government gives NYC our tax dollars for their crappy schools, our Nuclear Power to the city and countless other resources. Then the city turns around acts like we're a bunch of hicks
living in some backwoods shack. I'm more then willing to help now but most of NYC looks down on the rest of the state it lives off of. You can't grow food on asphalt.
With that said, I do like visiting sometimes, at Christmas or to catch a Yankees game! And when I took a cruise from their to the Caribbean, it was surreal to come into NY by ship past the Statue of Liberty! Of course I don't think any of my ancestors came in by ship sipping a Pina Colada in a lounge chair sunning themselves! And there are some great places and people in the city, just as a whole they think themselves superior.
Kinda the same way here in Seattle. Three counties rule the whole state. They’re liberal where the rest of the state is conservative.
What a legacy he will have.
1) Supporting obama.
2) Insisting on having a bread and circus show on devastated Staten Island.
3) Banning Big Gulps.
That to show you he doesn’t really care about people or he would have immediately cancelled it.
Even though it’s cancelled and argument against marathon is no longer on the table,
His lack of compassion, dignity , and respect for
People of NYC remains on the table.
Yep hate those tornadoes had many with Irene nonstop warning.
That was my only fear before Sandy arrived.
wasn’t really concerned about power outage.
Life’s full of disappointments . Not sweating the small stuff is a good policy not easily endured.
Tornadoes are not the “small stuff” .
Tell a northerner a swarm of sustained mini tornadoes are incoming, and they would have been glued to the TV/Radio for warning instructions. What do they know about tropical hurricanes?
Tell a southerner an ice storm is incoming...the same lack of real understanding of the inherent potential damages/dangers would occur.
These types of massive weather disasters come once a century.
I'm not going to waste time mocking New Yorkers for not being fully prepared for once in a century levels of massive tornadoes and storm surges.
New Orleans KNEW they were cheating fate, building a city below sea level, in hurricane ally.
Katrina was not if, but when.
I am curious as to why Bush was and is still “blamed” for all the so-called “federal government assistance failures” of “Katrina”, when he openly begged the governor of Louisiana to declare the entire state a disaster area over 48 hours before they were staring down a projected incoming Cat 5 Hurricane.
Blanco, Nagin, Bloomberg, Obama all have one thing in common.
None of the above are suitable for any elected office.
I live in North Texas, we get ice storms. We call it hail, usually lasts several minutes.
I bet the sale of Ltr and 2 Ltr bottles of soda from the cooler went through the roof when large cup soft drinks were banned.
Please tell me that you are just kidding. We're talking about LEO, Medical Services, etc. Not organizers, participants or vendors. So glad that you showed up to run your mouth.
exactly, taking cops off the disaster beat to cover a marathon does have an effect, even if they pay for it- it still removes police from possibly lawless areas. Same with generators, doctors and everything else.
Even if its paid for, it is still moving resources away from the victims to something as superfluous as a foot race.
Besides, if they are high bidder, isn’t that like price gouging in a disaster area which is supposedly illegal? /sarc
Let me be very clear, no way, no how, would I ever choose to live in any large city. My choice/their choice.
“As long as the TV cameras are there, they still make a ton of money.”
I saw a lot of empty seats during last week’s Jets game in the Meadowlands; I didn’t know if people were afraid of the storm (the rain was starting, but not the wind), or if it was because the Jets suck.
I can relate to that. Just before the 2009 ice storm in AR / KY / S. IL, I went to a local gas station that sells kerosene, to stock up, and was really quite surprised at the lack of a line for either gas or kerosene. This despite the fact that we do get ice storms here, but usually they are not that bad. Granted, while NWS predicted the total ice buildup well, they did not, until the storm was underway, really describe well what the impacts could be, or that people might be out of power for up to 3 weeks, in midwinter. If the time span between major storms exceeds 20 years, people pretty much forget...
I doubt if my grandmother did when she came from Ukraine. The closest I came to your experience (or hers) was 18 months ago on the SI Ferry. Continue to recover and Godspeed, New Yorkers and New Jerseyans.
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I know their are some conservative voters in NY who voted against soetoro and boombird. It is a shame to live in a state where liberals call the shots. I would consider moving down south. We always welcome good sane Americans who love our country.
Let’s hope so, along with insane biden.:)
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