Snow in NC!

Winter hit North Carolina with a vengeance and I had to remember how I handled even worse conditions in Pittsburgh and Canada.  We figured it out and went on our merry way.  Of course, my running schedule was shot to the moon and back!

There were some foul ups, bleeps, and blunders but nothing as bad as Atlanta and New York.

New York?

Yes, New York.

For some reason, the city of New York can never seen to get the streets cleaned after a blizzard.  If it isn't some city worker smashing into cars with a grader or just not getting to the entire Upper East Side,it is something else.  Atlanta can fall back on the tired excuse of "we are not used to this weather" but New York has a lot more experience.  Atlanta had horrible organization but then so did New York.

This is what happens when you put bureaucrats in charge of things....

Maybe some bureaucrats.  North Carolina Deptartment of Transportation had a bunch of trucks and salt ready to roll and most of the roads were clear.  Some of the outlying ones were a little treacherous but NCDOT was working around the clock.

So why did Atlanta and New York drop the ball?

"Remote, out of touch bureaucrats" seems like a pretty good answer.  Instead of calling in sick, could they have not shoveled some snow for a half hour or so.  Many hands make light work.  Every little bit counts and all that.  That would entail actually getting up to do something important and meaningful than shuffling papers and writing regualtions that they themsevlves don't understand.

Hopefully, they don't screw up the Super Bowl.