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My favorite part is the FReepers who live in Texas or other southern states with no experience with snow emergencies who claim that such “curtailment of liberty” would never fly in their home state.

Banning motor vehicle travel during emergencies like this is simply common sense. In a better world, the authorities would not have to tell people that.

If you travel through the Dakotas on I-90 or I-94 in the summer months, one of the things you notice is that many highway interchanges have a set of bright yellow gates in the upright position. They close those roads during major blizzards frequently enough that it was worth their while to install gates at all the interchanges.

Oh, yeah ... that's "martial law" all right. LOL.

Banning motor vehicle travel during emergencies like this is simply common sense.

Hogwash!

I'm nearly 70 years old. I've lived in the NYC Metro area most of my life. It snows here in the winter. Before five years ago or so I cannot remember politicians ordering everything closed. They do it because they are power crazy and want to pretend that they are in control.

There was an April Blizzard ["life threatening," it was, 20+ inches] back in the 70's where I had tickets for an opera I really wanted to see. I took the 20 mile bus ride into Manhattan along a virtually empty highway. Most people are smart enough to stay off the roads without a politician's order. In Manhattan, only cabs were on the streets. My bus had no trouble. The subways worked. It was a normal trip for me except that I didn't drive my own car.

But some do have to drive. (Hospital workers, policemen, plow drivers, &c.) They know it and for the most part have cars that are equipped to handle the snow. Someone had to drive Christie, de Blasio, et al., around for all those Weather Channel interviews.

ML/NJ