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Mr. Linsky · Posted: Tue Dec 28, 2010 6:10 pm Post subject:

Sure beginning to look like shades of the blizzard of 1947!

In fact, this storm occurred 63 years to the day later!

I remember that it took three days for the Long Island Railroad to clear a path from Sunnyside to Jamaica (and that was only two of the four tracks).

The airports, of which only La Guardia and Newark were of any consequence at the time, played no major role merely because modern air travel was still really in its infancy.

As Yogi Berra used to say; "it's 'dejavu' all over again" but now these storms seem to create so much more inconvenience and hardship then they did back when.

Take heed though, because if the experts are right about weather patterns changing around the world, we better get used to it!

Regards,

Mr. 'L'

N4 Jamaica · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Long Island

Regarding LI Bus: Tuesday morning, December 28, at 10:10 a.m. a westbound N 19 passed by the bagel store as I sat munching by the window. That afternoon I happened to be on Merrick Road again and saw an eastbound. It seems that Nassau County's streets (state, county, town, village) had better plowing than the Big Apple. My annoyance was to observe small shopping centers that piled their snow onto the street.

Hart Bus · Age: 74 Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1150

From all the yelling about unploughed streets, it looks looks not like the blizzard of 1947, but the blizzard of 1969 where Mayor "Linsley" didn't get the plows to the outer boroughs for 4-5 days. There is a picture on the front page of the NY Post where a street in Carrol Gardens has yet to see a plow.

I was told today by a client who works for another NYC agency, not Sanitation, that his agency that has a few plows to clear their property to sent two of them out (on OT) to clear the streets near their facility. Never happened before.

This could kill Blomie's Career, like it did John Lindsay's.