Not Much Yet
on 01/26/2015 at 08:38 PM
Gosh Drew ,I hope you don’t get snowed in by a malicious algorithm, That would be a very bad thing.
Cute. If I write a worm, and it turns, is it recursive?
Know what else pisses me off? Fuckin’ weather bimbos, male and female. On every network.
Oh look, giant snowstorm coming up the East Coast. Maybe the biggest one in history. 50 million people impacted. Everybody wants to see the predicted snow lines for where they live. Let me park my fat ass across the whole damn map, leaving only the tiny coastal strip of DC to Boston exposed. NJ? PA? OH? Northern NY or Canada? VA? Fuggem! Flyover country, who gives a tin whistle?
Meanwhile, half the TV screen filling digital radar map shows the empty Atlantic Ocean, population NOBODY. Blank space, they don’t even bother to paste the radar data animation there.
Oh, and a full day into the storm here in my inland corner of NJ, and our total accumulation has been ... perhaps an inch. Maybe an inch and a half, but I kind of doubt it.
Oh but wait. The REEEEEAL storm is still to come. Oooogie booogie woooogie!!!
Just more hysterical weather theater. <Yawn> The shy is falling gets old after the fist 10 times or so. And when did they start naming every storm? Never heard that before the Sandy snafu.
It stopped snowing before 5pm yesterday. The shovel guys came around at 1am and scraped the sidewalks and put down calcite. We haven’t had a flake since. So, about 43 hours into this storm, and we’ve had a grand total of an inch and a half. We had double that on Friday, from an unrelated local light snow. “Juno”, another word for “fizzle”.
Looks like so far algorithm is a loser.
Kinda like most media types.
But at least there is no SNOW.
New York Weather Folk have an OOOPS moment Now:
After being a promised a blizzard of historic and catastrophic proportions on Monday, New York City residents woke up today to rather meager snow totals and a lot of questions for their public officials.
...In the media capital of the world, however, the howls are loud after predictions of [snowfall in NYC specifically of] 30 inches or more fizzled into somewhere closer to five or six. Meteorologists are even apologizing for their somewhat overblown predictions.
The focus, in particular, seems to be about the decision to shut down New York City at 11:00 p.m. Tuesday night. All roads in the region (not just in the city, but in Connecticut and New Jersey, as well) were closed to non-emergency traffic, but Governor Andrew Cuomo also made the unprecedented decision to preemptively shut down the entire NYC subway system. That’s never happened in the 100-plus years of the subways due to snow.
Yet, by 11:00 p.m., it was already becoming clear that such a move was likely going to be unnecessary. That confusion quickly turned to outrage after a report by The Brooklyn Paper that the subway was actually still running. In order to keep the power on and the tracks clear, the MTA continued to shuttle empty trains all throughout the system and was planning to all along. It was apparently Cuomo’s decision to shut the system to passengers, a move that caught MTA off guard and appeared to be unnecessary.
Naturally, some people are upset about the overreaction. It’s one thing to clear the streets of cars, but the subway is the lifeline of the city, particularly for those people who work third-shift jobs or have family and friends in other boroughs. Cries of “nanny state"-ism, political posturing, or just plain cowardice are ringing out today.
Morons
Excellent find, Rich. Even the ultra-libs bleat like sheep when controlled so blatantly. Besides, nothing comes between a New Yorker and her $11 cup of artisan take-out coffee.
I live to serve Obi Drew.
Drew, about Firefox: Go up to History/Recently closed tabs/reopen proper tab.
