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So, people in New York normally have no food in their house, don't own snow shovels even though it snows there every winter and can't survive in their house for even a few minutes if the power goes out?
An even bigger question is why any of it is the top news story where I am. Idaho.
We have snow storms just like that or worse and it doesn't make the national news. In December there was a huge storm with power outages. It was out for weeks in some areas. There was a year we had three feet of snow within a few hours. School wasn't cancelled 3 days before it happened.
New York has a rush to by food and snow shovels and the news is instructing them to move in with someone else as soon as the power goes out. It snows every year there yet they're always surprised by it somehow. Explain this to me.
I saw the flooding in Wildwood, NJ on the news, pretty bad. I didn't hear if other communities in NJ were impacted.
Yes if you get 3 feet of snow in Idaho school is still open because you don't have nearly the traffic of the NY metropolitan area, a few hundred people living hundreds of miles apart is quite different than a few million people living a few feet apart. There is more traffic on the LIE in 5 minutes than the entire state of Idaho, not to mention very few places to put the snow.
30 inches in Harrisburg, PA, the state capitol. 32 in Somerset PA in the area of the PA turnpike closure for over 24 hours with hundreds of stranded people on Friday night and all day Saturday.
have you ever even been to NY? doesn't sound like it. maybe then you'd understand the enormity of taking care of a city that size and population.
That could be the point the op is trying to make. Why is a storm in NYC more important just because there are more people there? I remember a huge snow storm in the mountains of NC back in the 60's. Government was dropping food from the air while most of the people who were residents of the area were laughing about it. When winter starts in the mountains most farm families have enough food and wood to last the winter. Some of the poorer people might need help, but most others had no problem more than trying to keep the animals fed.
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. Enjoy that snow thing.
