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Sorry, as much as I HATE to defend my fellow low info NY voters, the weather channel and everyone else was WRONG.

The snow/blizzard was NOT supposed to hit us until late afternoon, 4-5 pm.

As we at work watched it coming down late morning/early afternoon, and checking every weather channel, they kept stating rain....even though we saw blizzard.

I had to FORCE my boss to cancel work today. I told him there was no way in heck I was going out in that crap (he kept trying to downplay the storm).

After a while he came to his senses and said to close up shop, our lives weren't worth it, as soon as the last patient left. By that time, we had about 4-5 inches on the ground (again, wasn't supposed to happen until 4-5 pm).

I had another medical office personnel next to me. She wiped off her car, warmed it up and as I was walking between both our cars (mine an all wheel drive Explorer), she tried to take off and I heard the “wheeling” of her car.

I got the heck out of there in less than 1 second! She got out of her car to kick the snow away from her front tires. I said “let me get out of your way”, in which I did.

This blizzard hit us 4-5 hours prior to what the “experts” claimed it would. We all had a terrible time getting home.

People heading home, who got stuck, blame the bosses. Just like my boss tried to downplay the blizzard (he was in NYC at the time it hit, they had rain, we had blizzard).

Please, don't confuse low info voters with regular people, like me, who was watching ALL weather channels telling me it was raining while I watched my own lying eyes seeing a blizzard.

I’ve learned to watch the radar rather than listen to the ‘weatherman’...

Sorry, as much as I HATE to defend my fellow low info NY voters, the weather channel and everyone else was WRONG.

This may be helpful in the future. I keep Weather Underground Full Screen Weather up as a tab at all times. You can zoom down to your local radar and google earth image.

This is the only weather site that I follow for real time information (plus my own Davis Weather Station). I use Accuweather for extended forecasts, but take it with a grain of salt. Their temperature readings are usually off by 5 degrees.

There is no malice intended. Hypothetically, if you had called me from your location, I could have given you at least an hour warning to get out of Dodge from the realtime information provided at the link.

Hope this helps.

The woman's ignorance does not excuse her from keeping minimal winter preps in the car.

I hate those pucker drives home. I find my local weather people are tons better than the weather channel/national weather service.

They both missed snowfall totals. Friday morning NWS said 10-18”. Locals said 18-24. We got 31.

I agree with you, NGZ. We were told that the brunt of the storm would not hit until after sundown. That said, I have a few observations from my lair here on Long Island:

1. Many people in Suffolk County (the easternmost part of the Island) do not work here. They work in Nassau County or in NYC. What was rain and much lighter snow in those places was a blizzard here, but most companies did not close at all, and many did not even close early.

2. Most people began their treks home from work/school MUCH earlier than usual. Rush hour did not start at the usual 4:30-5:00 hour, but from 1:00 onwards. At that time, the weather was unpleasant, but certainly no worse than other unpleasant days.

3. Even on a GOOD day, rush hour is no fun and the weather early Friday afternoon was rainy/sleety and cold. I saw unusually bad traffic all throughout the afternoon, hours before the brunt of the storm was to hit. (The reports I heard were for light snow in the afternoon, getting heavier as the day wore on, to blizzard conditions after sundown.) The traffic was literally at a bumper-to-bumper stand-still, leaving the people with nowhere to go, and no way to get off the roads they were on.

4. I suspect that many or most of the people stranded had begun their journeys hours beforehand and due to the very VERY slow traffic got stuck right in the middle of the storm. And when that storm DID hit (hours earlier than expected), it dumped a LOT of snow very quickly. We tried to keep up with it, but gave up around 9:00 pm.

5. For the first time I can remember, snow removal has been an unmitigated disaster. I have seen only ONE snow plow since yesterday when it attempted to clear my street. This was no little pickup truck, either, but a full-sized mammoth. It got stuck right in front of my house and spun its wheels for at least 45 minutes. I’m not even sure how it got out (I stopped watching and when I looked again it was gone). I later learned that it was one of the new natural gas-powered trucks the Town just got instead of the old diesel-fueled ones they used to use. The street remains impassable.

6. This is one of the worst winter storms I’ve ever seen. It was very, very bad out last night.

Regards,

I am sorry to hear what happened to you, but your statements put it all into perspective. Didn’t know that bosses were expecting employees to finish the workday with so much snow on the immediate horizon. Stay safe, keep warm and God Bless.