Earlier this week, a gigantic winter weather storm was predicted for the northeast, expect to drop as much as 2-3 feet of snow on the entire northeast, including New York City, Philadelphia, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine.
As a result, the governments of the respective agencies in those parts of the world shut the communities down. New York City, the State of Connecticut, Boston. Roads were closed. Driving was banned. Airlines closed. Everything was shut down.
Well, New York City, Philadelphia, and Connecticut did not take the hit that Massachusetts and Maine took, and there was a lot of criticism about closures. I know it cost a lot of money to close everything down. But my perspective is weather forecasting is not perfect, and the authorities did they best they could with what information they had. And, had the forecast called for a mega-storm, and the authorities took no action, and snow clogged up everything, and lives were lost, that would have been worse.
As it was there was snow, just not the large amounts expected. And the comment was that with everything closed, it was easier to clean up than it would have been.
Safety first.
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