Regardless of how bad the storm turned out to be last week, there is a good side to how it was managed.
In all of the areas where the operation of motor vehicles was banned during the specified times, there should have been zero collisions, bodily injuries and fatalities. None!
There should have been substantial savings for those whose duty it is to respond to emergencies. It might be a good model to use in future situations of this kind.
It could be said that the only losers were such as the medical profession and body shops who lost ‘business’ as a result. We don’t have to be concerned about that.
Interestingly, right after the ban ended, though I did not see it happen, I imagine that one of those Ultimate Driving Machines must have been going south on Roslyn Road in Mineola and when attempting to turn right westbound onto Second Street instead skidded and ended in the snow bank against the south curb: speeding no doubt as per the driving conditions. No matter how bad it is, the speeders are out there.
I noticed how the weather forecasters were getting ‘flaky’ about how bad it would be: such as the wind gusts would be much lower than originally predicted.
Later, one was almost choking on his words keeping up the image of the ‘great storm.’ I got the ‘drift’ of that too.
The center of the low pressure area was too far off shore. The northern movement and rotation were too slow to produce the predicted dynamics in most of our area.
Charles Samek
Mineola
