I’m sure if you got 36 inches of snow that there was a declaration of emergency.
There were a bunch of idiot FReepers around Friday night saying how the governor of Mass. was like Stalin for ordering people off of the roads.
Saturday, you have stories about people being stranded in their cars on the Long Island Expressway.
I think ordering people off the roads makes sense - with that amount of snowfall you must be able to clear the road but I do NOT recall any declaration of emergency that resulted in Federal help with our snowfall - These pansy government officials expect the feds to pay for everything