the rix mix

We had a typical Jersey snowfall last night, amount didn't matter. The city had two noisy plows running every 15 minutes on the two streets here that didn't need more plowing. Which doesn't explain why one plow couldn't make two passes during the blizzard two weeks ago. Maybe the city just can't cope well with a 30" blizzard the day after Christmas. The blizzard exposed serious deficiencies in planning for & quickly getting up to speed in emergency services: good plowing on main roads, at least adequate plowing on side streets. Blizzards need their own plans. A lot of towns, counties, & maybe even the state probably bogged down because they put their regular snow plans into effect & couldn't adjust & re-prioritize as the severity of the storm became obvious. The legit complaint is that the Dec 26/27 storm was forecast for blizzard conditions plus locally extreme snowfall amounts - it wasn't the usual semi-accurate National Weather Service watches & warnings being ratcheted up into weather hysteria by media, which occurs here all the time. Last night, at midnight, radar was already showing the well-defined back edge of the storm would clear Jersey by sun up. There was nothing behind it.

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