Bitter cold and snow

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[Clipper]

I was looking at the WKTV page earlier and there was a reporter standing somewhere in the city with the windblown snow obliterating the traffic markings on the road and blowing past him looking very bitter and cold.

I will take the rain anytime, thank you.

[BHU]

Time to hit the panic button! Six inches of snow & Roann Destito was here mobilizing the forces for this major snow event! At 5 o'clock the wife & I got in my truck & we went out to dinner at Ninety-Nine in New Hartford. Not a problem. I can't figure out why 6 inches of snow these days is an earth shattering event causing people to wet their pants. It's cny for God's sake.

[kit]

I agree BHU. Most all politicians occasionally come out of seclusion and take the opportunity to stick their name and face into the citizen's eye so we (the citizens) will remember them and will hopefully vote for them in the next election. These occurrences are few and far between with most politicians and are usually insignificant (or even laughable), and generally happen not long before the next election. In a positive or negative way, their face and name tend to stick in our minds so we don't forget whose salary we voted to pay at the last election and they'd like to keep it that way. Think of this as their necessary 'cost of doing business'.

[Clipper]

Cuomo shutting down interstates, and people in a panic over a few inches of snow is ridiculous. People of our generation learned how to drive in snow and took it in stride for the most part. I never owned a 4x4 pickup until shortly before I moved south. I always drove 2wd pickups with studded snow tires and two or three hundred pounds worth of sand bags placed over the rear axle. When it snowed we left earlier for work and took our time. No biggie. Once when I lived on Kayuta Lake I left for work and the snow was blowing across the road pretty heavily. I was busting drifts and not thinking a whole lot about it. Nothing alarming. By the time I got to Barneveld the alternator light came on. The snow had packed up under the hood to the point of throwing off the fan belt. I opened the hood and there was snow packed around the lower part of the engine, 1/2 way up the radiator, and the grill was packed. I walked to the diner and caught a ride the rest of the way to work with another fellow who worked at Griffiss and had my truck towed to a local garage to thaw out. Upstate New Yorkers have always been a hearty lot, and not afraid of a bit of wintery weather and snowy roads. It seems that people like Destito and Cuomo have found it politically advantageous to throw people into a panic over a few inches of snow.

I find it ridiculous and detrimental to interstate commerce for Cuomo to make emergency declarations and close interstates in simple anticipation of a storm, before it even arrives or causes a potential problem. I know when I drove a truck I would have been highly pissed off if I was grounded in a rest area somewhere due to such a decree. In the past it was not unusual for a ban on DOUBLE trailers to be put in place, usually by the Thruway Authority but seldom did the Thruway ever close to truck traffic by the governor's decree.

I see that some churches have cancelled Sunday morning mass due to the fact that the weather is bad enough that attendance would most likely be low. People actually know enough to stay home and off the roads without being told. I imagine that there is a snow emergency in effect in places, but no panic, and the world has not come to a halt.

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A gust of wind was so strong when I was crossing John St and Bleecker St that it actually blew me into oncoming traffic. Close call.

I heard the National Guard was placed on stand by for this huge storm we experienced Saturday. We will be having bitter cold this week in the evening. Get out the flannels and bottles of wine to stay warm.

[Clipper]

Sounds like you need ballast on those windy days. Try putting a roll or two of quarters in your pants pockets. When I was young and skinny my gramp used to tell me that I would blow away in a stiff breeze and that I should carry a roll of quarters in my pocket on windy days.

[BHU]

When i was in h.s. I used to walk in the dead of winter a mile to get there. Now, we get 3-4 inches they're delayed a couple hours. It's ridiculous. The news media is just as guilty with their patronizing attitude towards people. How many times do we need to be told like we're children & to wear warm clothes & put gloves on because it's cold out? Or to take our time clearing snow because us poor babies may hurt ourselves? Are we stupid enough that we need to be told by some snot nosed news person who never walked to school & back again in 5 degree weather like I did to put a pair of gloves on? And do we need Picente & Destito telling us how to drive because of 6 inches of snow? Give it a rest.

[clarencebunsen]

Once when I worked at the OD a co-worker told me to bundle up because it was cold. I could not help commenting, "The person born in India is advising the guy born in North Dakota about cold weather." We both had a laugh.

[Clipper]

I have forgotten if you ever told me what you did when you worked at the OD, and now am curious as to whether you worked there when I was the transportation manager.