"Mammoth Snow Storm" Underwhelms

mi (197448) writes You heard the scare-mongering, you heard the governors and mayors closing public transit and declaring driving on public roads a crime. But it turned out to have been a mistake. Boston may have been hit somewhat, but further South — NYC and Philadelphia — the snowfall was rather underwhelming. Promised "2-3 feet" of snow, NYC got only a few inches. Is this an example of "better safe than sorry," or is government's overreach justified by questionable weather models exceeding the threshold of an honest mistake?

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Re: Not their fault

[Anonymous Coward]

That, and it's Boston, so they probably deflated the rulers to try and make it seem like they got more snow.

(I'm honestly disappointed Slashdot hasn't covered deflategate yet - there's some seriously nerdy stuff that's come out of it, such as the physics of a deflated a football and statistical analysis that proves the Patriots have been cheating since 2007. Sure, it's sports related, but it's still nerdy stuff.)

Re:jessh

[Darinbob]

That's money. What about lives if the storm was big (which is actually was, just not in NYC)? Money is easily recovered, and should never be considered the most important factor. So people don't go to the grocery store today, but they will go tomorrow. Maybe we should cancel all holidays and really make huge amounts of money because those expendable workers will be productive instead of plotting with their unions. Cancel weekends too. Even better, make those CEOs *work* for a living by working on the assembly lines or flipping the burgers.