We just had a blizzard on Saturday night and Sunday which dumped a NYC record of 26 inches of snow. The weather people announced that the snow would begin at 4:00. When the snow hadn't begun by 6:00, I hoped we had dodged a bullet. When I woke up Sunday morning, it was white out conditions which means there is almost no visibility and all you can see is white snow.
The Department of Sanitation is in charge of snow removal on the streets and highways. They were really the only people driving on the streets in their big trucks. The Mayor and his Commissioners requested that people stay home. If they had to go out to work, they should not drive and should take public transportation. Most people listened and stayed home because that type of weather can be really dangerous. By Monday most of the snow in the city had been removed from the street and sidewalks. Public transportation was running, but it was delayed. NYC is accustomed to this type of weather. There are plans in place so we are really prepared. The only bad thing is the streets filled with slush so I had to jump over or walk through huge puddles.
In 1996 we had about 16 blizzards and snowstorms. I remember they couldn't clear one of the streets in my neighborhood because it had frozen solid with ice. This was a potentially dangerous situation because emergency vehicles could not drive on that street.
I have cousins who lived in Rochester and now lives in Buffalo, NY. They act like two feet of snow is nothing, and it's not cold unless the temperature drops below 0 degrees F. They think that we're wimps.
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