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There was another thread that sang a similar tune over in Current events.
I really don't understand how folks from "Real America" get this notion that us big city Northeast Corridor Urban folks have difficulty dealing with... pretty much anything. If you aren't self-reliant, perhaps not in the way folks in rural areas think but the kind of self-reliance that is required to live in a big city, you won't last every long.
When I moved to the sparse west (not that Colorado Springs is exactly Podunk), the "breaking news" on the 10 p.m. broadcast was "Barn fire, all horses saved).
So let's see, a barn fire that affected one family and no animals - versus - a storm that affected a third of the nation's popualtion, with the threat of massive power outages in sub-freezing weather, literally thousands of flights canceled, streets to hundreds of thousands of homes that won't be plowed out for days, over 900 accidents in northern Virginia in just one day, death toll of over 100, extensive shore erosion in New Jersey and New York.
It is newsworthy to people in New York. To people far away from there is isn't. And I don't think that storm was the big dangerous deal the media made it into. That is the point. It may not be the people, but the media is making you guys look bad. Snow happens in other places in the US every winter, but we hear about New York snow every winter regardless the amount of it.
I wouldn't want to live there, but I would like to visit sometime. I'm sure it has a lot of great things to see. My Grandfather was born there.
I wrote this in the Current Events thread, and I'll repeat it here: a lot of us living in flyover country have professional and social connections on the coast. Our concerns do not end at the state border. Several members of my husband's development team are sitting in Jersey and Pennsylvania, and they fly back and forth frequently. The storm might not matter to you, but it certainly does to him, and lots of other people in the Midwest and West.
It is newsworthy to people in New York. To people far away from there is isn't. And I don't think that storm was the big dangerous deal the media made it into. That is the point. It may not be the people, but the media is making you guys look bad. Snow happens in other places in the US every winter, but we hear about New York snow every winter regardless the amount of it.
I wouldn't want to live there, but I would like to visit sometime. I'm sure it has a lot of great things to see. My Grandfather was born there.
I live in Idaho as well so I'm right there with you when it comes to mild amusement about the "world falling apart" 'cause snow is headed up the eastern side of the country. It is second nature for everyone here to have a four wheel drive vehicle, to stock up on food, to have emergency supplies ready in case of road closures and power outages, and to just hunker down when it gets rough.
Having said that, we are a state with one million people. This snow event on the right side of the country is epic in terms of snow fall amounts because it directly impacts not only the capital of our nation but also some 80 million citizens. You're correct that many fail to prepare on the eastern side of the country even when they have a week or more notice, but that doesn't take away from the fact that this storm will impact 1/4 of everyone who lives in the United States.
It does not look like a bad storm to me, and I don't understand why the news outlets go on about it.
This was the 2nd biggest stormm NYC ever had .1 inch from the record at Central Park (other locations around NYC had a record snowfall). It was also records or near records across numerous cities in the Mid-Atlantic, dropping a full winter's worth of snowfall from NYC to D.C and in some cases more snow than it averages in an entire year. It was also the amount of people it impact, between 1/3 and 1/4 of the country experienced record or near record snowfall.
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