When the first weather report emerged, you can bet DeBlabbio was sweating bullets.
Number One-—he was flashing on Mayor Lindsay’s blunder—not plowing the city streets after a blizzard.
Number two—De Blobbio has never recovered from his stupid cop-hating episode.
He was scared of getting two strikes against him——so the Big Bird jumped in-—hoping to look the hero-—saving New Yorkers from the blizzard.
Too bad——his dire warnings that never materialized made the Birdman look stupid, again.
There is also the case of Chicago storm & Mayor there - c1979-1980. The result was a new Mayor, (the recently deceased) Jane Byrne.
His reaction was about power, what good is Fascism if you cannot wield the power. His reaction was not to the blizzard, because there was no blizzard to react to.
Just a little slio of the progressive mask.
I got about a foot of snow in Queens. That was the lower end of the predicted amount. I had to drive 20 miles each way just before the blizzard hit, to have an emergency root canal. I was GRATEFUL for the salting and plowing, and I can personally attest that the driving was VERY hazardous. If I tried to go over 15 mph, my car started fishtailing. There were lots and lots of people out on the road who obviously hadn’t a clue about how to drive in snow. They made the slick driving all the more hazardous. So closing the roads at 11 p.m., when the snow was really getting going, was not a stupid idea. I despise both DeDumDum and Cuomo, but I agree that they followed a prudent course of action, given the weather reports we were getting at the time.