I think its amusing how the national media has been talking so much about this storm.
Yes its a huge storm. But I’ve been in equally bad storms in other parts of the country, which do not attract any attention from the national media.
Just saying, something which happens on the New York/Washington media axis, is magnified in news reports because of it happening where the media are headquartered.
I have been in early season Colorado snowfalls that make this look like flurries.
Most winter storms get hyped up for no good reason but this is the real deal. I'm getting the fire going in my fireplace and my generator is ready to go. I'm expecting to lose power later today or tonight.
It’ll be all gone in 2 days.
I know in just the last 10 years there have been East Coast snow storms of equal intensity, and no one went nuts.
This can only be a reflection of the political elites sucking as much juice from the "climate change" meme that they can. Without liberal/progressive attention, we are all doomed.
“Just saying, something which happens on the New York/Washington media axis, is magnified in news reports because of it happening where the media are headquartered.”
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You are right-——and it’s insane.
I’m in MA and just laugh at the over-the-top news coverage.
A warning is nice,sure,so people can be prepared but this could be taken care of in regular,scheduled newscasts.
It’s like a comedy show IMHO-——shots of supermarket shelves,traffic jams.and idiots standing outside with a microphone in their hands.
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Don’t you know that any storm that hits New York City and or Washington D C is always the “storm of the century”. Anything anywhere else is just a pittance.
Remember SUPER STORM SANDY? This will be remembered as SUPER BLIZZARD of 2016.
A month ago the media was all agog with the "freak heat wave" and that NY'ers were wearing shorts and sandals just days before Christmas. I live in central NY State, and we've had our share of snow storms here. We're in the foothills of the Adirondacks. Whether it's a freak heat wave, or a frigid day, I've seen people wearing pedal pushers and going sockless during the winter. It isn't all that rare anymore.
They don’t call themselves ‘The Center of the Universe’ for nuttin....
I remember the blizzard of ‘78. My sister lives (and lived) on a side street on a hill in Queens. Her street was unpassable for weeks. Manhattan was plowed out in a few days. Congestion complicates things. One stuck car on a narrow street ties up traffic for blocks.
In ‘78 the streets were cleared (or not) by union civil servant Department of Sanitation drivers. The garbage trucks were repurposed as plows. The Sanitation drivers are incredibly unproductive, probably less than a fourth as productive as private contractors most other localities use.
I remember one blizzard that happened on St. Patrick's Day in the 1990s. The City of Pittsburgh decided to go through with its annual St. Patrick's Day Parade even though many of the participating organizations, marching bands and other participants couldn't make it. I think there might have been one high school marching band. Felt sorry for the majorettes in their skimpy costumes trying to march and twirl their batons in such cold, snowy weather.
But the best part was when some news person interviewed a city councilman (the politicians all showed up for the parade). This imbecile uttered a now famous line: “Gosh, the crowds seem a lot smaller this year than in previous years.”
No! Really? Ya think?
Anyway, we all survived without media “team coverage,” reporters standing outside with their yardsticks measuring the amount of snow, dash cam videos of snow covered roads and hours of news readers telling us, “IT'S SNOWING!”
Everybody seems to miss the irony of your post and screen name!
I saw the Weather Channel Princess get mad during a live shot in NYC this AM when a kid got in her TV shot of a frikkin yardstick about 50 ft away from her (in a public place). Don’t interfere with the DRAMA!!
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I suspect this is because of the number of people impacted; there is a large part of our population impacted by this.
Even one inch of this mess **is** a major event.