Posted on 01/27/2015 6:58:11 AM PST by KeyLargo
Bill de Blasio on Blizzard Bust: ‘Better Safe Than Sorry’
By Jillian Jorgensen | 01/27/15 8:29am
After a much-hyped blizzard-that-wasn’t, Mayor Bill de Blasio said this morning that he was glad the city had prepared for a worse storm and that New York would be getting back to normal quickly.
“We thought we were going to get something much bigger,” Mr. de Blasio told CNN “New Day” anchor Chris Cuomo (who happens to be the brother of Gov. Andrew Cuomo).
Forecasts of two or even three feet of snow led Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo to essentially shut the city down. Mr. de Blasio rolled out a driving ban, lifted at 7:30 a.m., closed city schools and shut the Staten Island Ferry. Mr. Cuomo stopped all MTA service—an unprecedented move for a snow storm—and also banned travel on state roads.
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The NYC subways are electric trains utilizing the “third rail” just above and to the side of the regular RR tracks. Problem is not so much snow on the elevated portions of the tracks in the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn, but ice and frozen slush build-up on the third rail. Icing of the tracks presents acceleration and braking problems.
Same problems occur in the Washington DC subway system in the above ground sections.
The subways should not have been shut down. Running the subways on the above ground portions, keeps the tracks clear of snow.
You would think a man of the people would know that. /s
In NYC the subways are electrified and run on power through a third rail at ground level.
It’s not a matter of ‘colder’, it’s a matter of ‘there’s 3 feet of snow on miles of overground tracks and covering the car barns where the trains are turned around’.
I’m betting Amtrak is delayed to Boston today. For the same reason.
Mass, and other parts of NE are getting hit pretty hard. Nantucket[global warming....lol] might have some new 'recorded' records.
Roads were terribly slippery to negotiate; anything over 15mph and you'd start to fishtail. Many people (mostly the ones from tropical climes) obviously had no clue how to drive in winter weather. They were more of a hazard than the snow, acting like total ___ holes, expecting other cars to be able to stop on a dime, which you obviously could not.
Nope, I'm 100% grateful to have the day off to recover from the systemic infection caused by the infected tooth and the root canal. Antibiotics and Advil, routine of the day.
So who’s going to eat all these French toast ingredients everybody laid in for the storm?? LOL...
There’s four inches of snow in NYC. The subways regularly move through much, much more than that.
Because of the snow, silly!
New York elected a dumbass mayor, and help elect a dumbass president. I guess that makes New Yorkers collectively dumbasses.
This just in from the NYC Whole Foods-—there is still NO KALE!
Yup, I live right on the water, Galveston Bay and there is no way I can get inland since all the roads leading inland are full of folks from Houston evacuating. So I just ride out hurricanes here in north Galveston County.
I’m not kidding in the least. Out of the last 45 years there are only 4 years where I lived somewhere with a higher population density (I met and married my wife during those 4 years). I am proud to be known as a hermit.
Transcript: Mayor de Blasio Holds Press Conference to Update New Yorkers on Winter Weather Conditions
January 26, 2015
“The best thing to do is stay indoors, stay off the sidewalks. And this is something I want people to start acting on as quickly as possible.”
So let me get this straight.
A government official ordered citizens to stay in their homes and not walk outside because of four inches of snow.
I heard once, but it must be a fairy tale, that an occupying government ordered citizens to stay in their homes and allow government military soldiers to be quartered in their homes.
de Blasio isn’t the only useless idiot on the block. Cuomo and just about every mayor and town supervisor south of Albany (many of whom are supposed to be small government republicans) over-reacted and declared a state of emergency yesterday afternoon and shut down major highways, roads, mass transit, government offices, schools, and businesses, even before the first snow flakes hit the ground. Idiots.
They get the government they deserve.
No doubt.
But when the forecast from NWS called for 2ft plus, you can’t wait till that’s actually on the ground to start planning logistics.
I can’t fault DeBlasio for this one. NWS has to take most of the blame.
But everyone involved should be aware that the bust/overproduce options are always on the table with snow and noreasters in the NYC area.
I was there for the 96 storm. I still remember the EMT’s on snowmobile pulling a travois out of our neighborhood with a guy who’d had a heart attack and then again with a woman in labor. Busting is better than the other direction for everyone.
Sam Champion kept hyping the snow totals in feet even after the storm had passed thru. 6” in NYC compared to predictions of 3 feet! Ha ha. Just goes to show you that you don’t need a functioning brain to become a tv weatherman, or mayor.
I’m not sure whether the problem is pure laziness that leads people to look for any excuse not to go to work or whether 25 years of big-government, nanny-statist rule has turned us into wimps and girly-boys incapable of providing for our own safety and well-being.
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