New York City's streets plowed equally, mayor says

[hrmjustin]

Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The year's first big snowstorm was also the first big test for New York City's new mayor, Bill de Blasio.

Asked to give himself a grade for handling the snow in his first week in office, the mayor said, "I feel great about the response." But he quickly added, "We are not out of this yet."

"Based on the information I have right now, I give everyone an A for extraordinary effort and extraordinary effectiveness," de Blasio said. "Ask me my grade again in a few hours."

The snowstorm came about three years after de Blasio criticized his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, for failing to lead a quick snow cleanup in all parts of the city.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9379658

[jwirr]

1. And while that sounds unimportant you have to live in a rural area where your road is the last

plowed.

[hrmjustin]

2. Yes you can be trapped in rural areas.

[BlueToTheBone]

4. When the roads ice here

we are almost always iced in. Our county is now run by republicons.

[BlueToTheBone]

3. I don't think I've seen this before

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New York City's Parks Department is planning a day of snow activities in each of the city's five boroughs.

Sleds will be available to borrow between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday at the five locations. There will be snow angel competitions, music and free hot chocolate.

The locations are Crotona Park in the Bronx, Prospect Park near Ninth Street in Brooklyn, Highbridge Park in Manhattan, Juniper Valley Park in Queens and Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island.

It almost sounds like fun instead of woe to us.

[hrmjustin]

5. Sounds great to me.

[BlueToTheBone]

6. Which? Playing in the snow

or being iced in for a week or two?
For the first 4 days it is wonderful, by day 7, marriages can crumble! lol

[hrmjustin]

7. playing in the snow.

[hrmjustin]

8. 7 days, my God!

[BlueToTheBone]

10. Yes and it produces a well known mental illness

called Cabin Fever, which seems quite real. Almost everyone I know becomes almost incoherent after 7 days.

[hrmjustin]

11. I am sorry to hear that you are going through this hell.

[BlueToTheBone]

12. Oh, I've been out and about a lot since the last storm

and we're well prepared for this one. As long as we continue to have internet and tv, we'll be fine. When we lose our satellite then it's time to go to bed and stay there for some long period of time.

[TheOther95Percent]

9. Fifth Avenue Yesterday Looked Exactly As Shitty as a Main Drag in Queens

I was delighted. Three years ago when we had that major storm the day after Christmas, people on the side streets here didn't see a plow for a week. Manhattan, on the other hand, the streets were down to the blacktop in a matter of a day. Mr. TO95% said that it didn't even looked like it snowed. In the meantime, in the outer boroughs, we saw people carrying their sick elderly down snow clogged streets to reach an ambulance a week after the storm.

Go Mayor D! We live here too.