Looks like a big snow storm is heading your way. Stay safe and warm!

 

Snow, gather your becan around you and enjoy.

Well as I absolutely 100% predicted the so-called "storm of the century" that had NYC city officials screaming at everyone to stay home, the MTA cancelling all public transport and yuppie transplants fighting over bottles of iodine was an absolute washout. We've gotten a relatively light covering of snow, nothing out of the ordinary at all. Of course the stock reply will be "better safe than sorry," but when I looked at Accuweather.com at 9pm last night it said that just a few inches was expected. Nothing like the catastrophic THREE FEET that would grind the city to a halt. But naturally they waited until 8:30am to announce that the subways are up and running again.
 
Meanwhile everyone (including me) who announced their businesses would be closed today are now facing the task of seeing what they can salvage of the day - calling clients who may or may not still have the day off work and will or won't require services, and trying to rouse employees who thought they had the day off out of their slumber to tell them that they should come into work, but I can't tell them exactly what jobs they have on because clients have to find out whether THEY are back to work or not before they can let us know if they need our services. Another classic New York City train wreck.

It snows in the subway?  Wow!!

Karyn
It snows in the subway?  Wow!!

Just like British trains, the whole thing grinds to a halt if there is so much as a leaf on the tracks

This whole expected storm was a "big news" event. Even here in the Chicagoland area, news coverage of the East Coast storm was very pronounce. Typical of news broadcasts in this new age. Make an event whenever possible. When they are then wrong, just blame it on 'weather model' inaccuracies. 

News stations, and especially local news stations, love weather stories. It's their bread and butter. The slightest hint of inclement or hot weather and they get to dispatch reporters to every single corner of the city for live reports every 10 minutes. "And now it's over to Bill in Flushing. What's the weather like there Bill?"

What cracks me up are all the commentators using snowstorms as an argument that global warming is made up BS. How can there be global warming, they ask, when it's so cold at my house?
 
Meanwhile, out here in the Pacific Northwest, temperatures are 15 degrees above normal. (That's Fahrenheit so no, we haven't become tropical.) We've had snowfall just once this winter, back in November. Unfortunately, it's also meant insufficient snow in the ski areas. It could also mean water shortages come summer, since all of our water starts out as snow.
 
 

A good friend of mine who was planning on flying into NYC this week was refunded the money for his tickets due to the "impending catastrophe". The airlines had cancelled a lot of flights due to this.
 
Sadly, he was flying in for his mom's funeral.