Posted on 02/09/2013 1:51:46 PM PST by PA Engineer
FARMINGVILLE, N.Y. — Lorna Jones decided to brave the blizzard on Friday, venturing onto the Long Island Expressway as the snow began piling up. So did many others here in Suffolk County.
They all came to regret it.
“It’s terrible. It’s cold. I don’t know how long I’m going to be here,” said Ms. Jones, 62, a nurse who stalled near the town of Brookhaven, less than a mile from her destination. “Are there any plans to help us?”
She said she had slept fitfully in her car, with no food or water, and only a bottle of Listerine next to her on the passenger seat.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I’m convinced those plow drivers lurk at the end of residential streets; waiting until homeowners are done clearing their driveways...then; laughing all the way; they plow the snow into a nigh impenetrable wall at the base of everyone’s driveway. It must be part of their official training, as they have been doing this for decades...
As you said, most of the nurses are phenomenal, but the system doesn’t always work - information doesn’t flow or isn’t shared in a timely fashion, etc. Better to be safe than sorry.
REALLY ???!!!????
Replenishing mouthwash is worth (almost) freezing herself to death?
[Note, she didn’t get anything else, only a bottle of mouthwash.]
Enough to elect Obama TWICE.
“How many Freepers would have slept overnight in their cars, temps in the 20’s, rather than walk less than a mile home?”
Less than zero. Sub-zero, you might say.
(Unless they’re infirm.)
Driving north through Palm Beach county this afternoon I saw my first tesla.
What a P.O.S.
Andrew doesn’t seem to have inherited any of his father’s gift for politics, just the last name.
I’ve learned to watch the radar rather than listen to the ‘weatherman’...
And if you’re not packed into a snowbank—an 11-year-old boy died of CO poisoning in Boston today while warming up in the car he and his dad were shoveling out.
Weathermen sometimes get things wrong, who knew?
“Preppers ping and a modern parable on low information voters.”
Really. How long does it take to throw a few bags of peanuts, candy bars and jerky in a car for winter emergencies. Toss in a blanket and flashlight and you’re set till help comes.
Some people are helpless and have no idea how to take care of themselves. Maybe Lorna the liberal should wait for FEMA to show up with bags of ice.
STAY OFF THE F&*KING ROAD!! A STORM IS COMING!!
It is getting harder and harder for me to abide idiots. 200 years ago these people died due to their stupidity. Now a days we risk good peoples lives to save these schmucks...
Now we reward it.
I hate those pucker drives home. I find my local weather people are tons better than the weather channel/national weather service.
They both missed snowfall totals. Friday morning NWS said 10-18”. Locals said 18-24. We got 31.
Nothing to do with her but back when I was younger I had a Jeep CJ5. Whenever a blizzard hit (don’t take much in NC) I’d drive up to the local hospital and help the other 4x4 volunteers take staff to and fro.
Gave us a good excuse to be out and about plus it was fun since I grew up in Upper Michigan.
They “downgraded” us to 12-18 inches. We got 29!
Tough call considering 62 years old, worsening conditions and possibility of getting hit by a car in the darkness. It really depends on the exact circumstances. I assume she did have gas to keep the engine and heater running? Was it one mile level and direct or up and down with lots of intersections, etc. I am not infirm nor slowed by my age all that much and have had situations in the mountains where I wasn't going to be covering 100 feet, much less 5,280. And I am a skier and off-roader.
The danger is, if it's snowing, that the snow covers the exhaust pipe. That's what happened in the Blizzard of '78. A lot of stranded motorists died on Rte. 128.
I'm sure that thought never crossed this lady's mind.
Just an FYI. The gas lines were the same as Sandy on Thursday into Thursday night.
When I went into work Friday, all the stations I passed were out of gas.
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