On the eve of Tuesday’s Winter Storm Stella, the National Weather Service got reports that its dire prediction of up to 2 feet of snow for New York City may have been exaggerated — but decided not to change its forecast...for fear people would mistakenly think the storm was no longer dangerous.
Yes; years ago I was in a job that made the mistake of telling us the day before that the office would close the next day due to the forecast - and NOTHING HAPPENED.
They never did that again.
After a November storm a few years ago in which people should have been released early but weren’t, many people who commuted less than an hour into work spent five hours or more getting home - so they just don’t come in if they think there will be serious snow (and COVID made that easier; many simply work remotely).
