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The Skies Above New York Right Now, After Blizzard Of 2015 Downgraded To Junk

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Yesterday, New Yorkers were preparing for the Snow Tempest of the Century expected to dump as much as 20 inches of snow in the city, with Snowmageddon 2.0 fears promptly used by Whole Foods stores across Manhattan to clear out all stale inventory. Instead, what New Yorkers got was the proverbial "teapot" with the Blizzard warning ended moments ago after a far less dramatic snowfall took place (or as S&P would downgrade it, straight to Junk if it wasn't afraid of the resultant lawsuits) and according to the latest update from the National Weather Service, total snowfall accumulation at Central Park as of 5:59 am was a paltry 6.3 inches - which in retrospect will make some question mayor de Blasio's repeated "emergency" warnings.

That said, while the #Blizarrdof2015 may have been a dud, it is the skies above New York, some 10,000 feet and above, that is where the real action lies. Or rather doesn't. As this real time snapshot of airplane traffic over New York, not a plan is to be found.

Meanwhile, this is what all the drama was about:

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
559 AM EST TUE JAN 27 2015

THE FOLLOWING ARE UNOFFICIAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN DURING THE PAST 6
HOURS FOR THE STORM THAT HAS BEEN AFFECTING OUR REGION. APPRECIATION
IS EXTENDED TO HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS...COOPERATIVE OBSERVERS...SKYWARN
SPOTTERS AND MEDIA FOR THESE REPORTS. THIS SUMMARY IS ALSO AVAILABLE
ON OUR HOME PAGE AT WEATHER.GOV/NYC

********************STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL********************

LOCATION          STORM TOTAL     TIME/DATE   COMMENTS
                       SNOWFALL           OF
                      /INCHES/   MEASUREMENT

CONNECTICUT

...FAIRFIELD COUNTY...
   DARIEN                 5.8   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   NORWALK                5.0   200 AM  1/27  PUBLIC
   BRIDGEPORT AIRPORT     3.5  1200 AM  1/27  NWS COOP
   DANBURY                3.0   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   BROOKFIELD             2.1   100 AM  1/27  TRAINED SPOTTER

...MIDDLESEX COUNTY...
   HADDAM                 8.0   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   OLD SAYBROOK           7.5   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT

...NEW HAVEN COUNTY...
   NORTH GUILFORD        13.0   400 AM  1/27  TRAINED SPOTTER
   MERIDEN                8.5   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   MILFORD                6.0   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   BEACON FALLS           4.5   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   NEW HAVEN              4.0   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   WATERBURY              4.0   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   SOUTHBURY              3.5   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT

...NEW LONDON COUNTY...
   GROTON                 7.0   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   COLCHESTER             7.0   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT
   NORWICH                6.5   300 AM  1/27  CT DOT

NEW JERSEY

...BERGEN COUNTY...
   BERGENFIELD            2.8  1200 AM  1/27  TRAINED SPOTTER

...ESSEX COUNTY...
   NEWARK AIRPORT         3.3   100 AM  1/27  FAA CONTRACT OBSERVER

...UNION COUNTY...
   CRANFORD               2.4   145 AM  1/27  PUBLIC

NEW YORK

...KINGS COUNTY...
   RUTLAND PLAZA          4.3   400 AM  1/27  TRAINED SPOTTER

...NASSAU COUNTY...
   MASSAPEQUA            14.2   427 AM  1/27  PUBLIC

...NEW YORK COUNTY...
   CENTRAL PARK           6.3   100 AM  1/27  CENTRAL PARK ZOO

...ORANGE COUNTY...
   GREENVILLE             3.5   415 AM  1/27  TRAINED SPOTTER
   MIDDLETOWN             2.0   100 AM  1/27  PUBLIC

...PUTNAM COUNTY...
   COLD SPRING            2.0   400 AM  1/27  PUBLIC

...QUEENS COUNTY...
   JAMAICA               10.1   315 AM  1/27  PUBLIC
   FOREST HILLS           9.0   500 AM  1/27  TRAINED SPOTTER
   NYC/LA GUARDIA         7.6   100 AM  1/27  FAA CONTRACT OBSERVER
   NYC/JFK AIRPORT        5.6   100 AM  1/27  FAA CONTRACT OBSERVER

...SUFFOLK COUNTY...
   ISLIP AIRPORT         18.2   500 AM  1/27  FAA CONTRACT OBSERVER
   FLANDERS              16.0   400 AM  1/27  TRAINED SPOTTER
   DEER PARK             16.0   530 AM  1/27  PUBLIC
   UPTON                 15.0   500 AM  1/27  NWS OFFICE
   TERRYVILLE             8.4   330 AM  1/27  AMATEUR RADIO
   SMITHTOWN              5.0  1200 AM  1/27  TRAINED SPOTTER
   OLD FIELD              3.0  1254 AM  1/27  TRAINED SPOTTER

$$

 

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Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:47 | 5709836 TruthInSunshine
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NYC Mayor: ‘Reconcile Yourselves With Your God, For All Will Perish In The Tempest’

NEWS IN BRIEF • Weather • News • ISSUE 51•04 • Jan 26, 2015

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nyc-mayor-reconcile-yourselves-with-you...

Whiney-assed, self-entitled, the universe revolves around New York City/Manhattan, could not change a light bulb if life depended on it, protect us from snow flakes bigGov.org, we are fucking useless cunts NYC Edition.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:49 | 5709851 GetZeeGold
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not a plan is to be found

 

Zee plan.....zee plan!!!

 

Well.......shitgum!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:59 | 5709867 TruthInSunshine
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double nail gun tap.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:06 | 5709892 negative rates
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Remember the 9-11.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:11 | 5709903 NoDebt
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National Weather Service askes Congress for an additional 5 billion dollars a year in funding to help rebuild their failing infrastructure and again be able to provide world-class weather forecasting.

You laugh, but I bet that's how this goes down.

 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:27 | 5709952 Ignatius
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These dipshits think they can accurately model world climate, but they miss on an "epic snow storm" 2 days out.  I'm laughin'.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:34 | 5709971 onewayticket2
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"We BS'd some folks"

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:55 | 5710036 ABG LINE
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LoL !

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:05 | 5710055 linniepar
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Maybe they just needed some time to plant the nano thermite they will blame on the Russians.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:09 | 5710075 IridiumRebel
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my wife's girlfriend stated: "This snowstorm is just like my ex-boyfriend. Promised 8-12 inches but only received 3-6."

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:58 | 5710272 WordSmith2013
Tue, 01/27/2015 - 11:48 | 5710870 Bollixed
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Family lore says that blizzard was the reason my grandfather was conceived. (Nudge nudge, know what I mean...) So no blizzard = no Bollixed.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:31 | 5710139 NoDebt
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Ignatius- even Joe Kernen, Mr. MSM party-line boot-licker, made that observation this morning.  

Eventually they will "prove" man-caused climate change is correct by rounding up and shooting all us deniers.  Just to be safe, they'll also shoot anyone who answers "not sure".

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:33 | 5710149 Ignatius
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"Eventually they will "prove" man-caused climate change is correct by rounding up and shooting all us deniers."

Like you, in that eventuality, I'll be shooting back...

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:04 | 5709868 TruthInSunshine
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"Flyover" state taxpayers must provide 666 billion USD in Emergency Snowpocalypse Funding to Chuck "Tel Aviv Dual Citizen" Schumer's District within 5 business days - or else.

Schumer is attaching an amendment for this to Obama's newest round of Free & Fair Slave Trade Agreements with even poorer nations than the last go 'round when Clinton & Shrub were in office so that the remaining 18% of Americans qualifying as "middle class" can be wiped out.

Here's Schumer's puppet, Obama, looking out for the middle class and working class. He's a real hero of Middle Class Americans (what are left of them):

http://jackbaruth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/The-Tech-Supper.png

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:04 | 5709890 cnmcdee
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That lone plane is probably another house of saud or bin laden family escape plane.. How do you get sequels, prequels, and future episodes if shit gets cleaned up?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:45 | 5709837 williambanzai7
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2015 the great blizzard of bullshit

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:51 | 5709857 smokintoad
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Thanks for starting my day out with a good laugh.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:55 | 5709863 GetZeeGold
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But, but, but.....it's global warming!!!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:04 | 5709891 Headbanger
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WWWHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!   GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!

WWWWHHHHHHAAAA!   STOP THE SNOW NOW!!!!!!  WWWWHHHHHHHAAAAAAAA!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:08 | 5709901 negative rates
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It don't work like that knuckler, hows about you stop glacier melt.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 11:21 | 5710727 forexskin
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evidence?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:11 | 5709910 cnmcdee
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clearly it looks like the haarp snow machine broke down. Maybe the pentagon can call the local ski hills and rent or borrow theirs for some propaganda shoots and just make up a city name.  By the time anyone catches on everyone will have forgotten anyways.  

Long Live The Muppets!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:17 | 5709879 TruthHunter
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And apparently the Gov(s) can't get out

of bed early enough to revise their plan.

For once I hope the lawyers get busy.

 

There is some plausibility Suffold co. and east.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:16 | 5709929 valley chick
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Worked just as planned. Able to control millions. Conditioning people that it is for their safety and not a peep about mandating people off the streets. Willfully giving up their freedom.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:54 | 5710254 pods
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Just government letting the people know why they need them.

pods

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:23 | 5709939 JuicedGamma
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The great no-storm of 2015

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:37 | 5709984 youngman
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But the weathermen all got their face time in front of the cameras...that is why the big panic storm...to become a little famous....and the politicians like to look like they are take charge men.....all in front of the cameras.....we are men men men men men men men....

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 11:08 | 5710664 turnoffthewater
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Fu*k N York and the taxi drivers.

Frezzeeeee. bitchezs

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:46 | 5709840 surf0766
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Philly..

Sunday night the prediction was 14-24. This morning we have less than 1/2 inch.

 

Government forecasting models

 

 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:51 | 5709858 nmewn
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Clearly showing the need for increased taxation to pay for betterer computer models!!!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:56 | 5709870 Oldwood
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No doubt we have failed at controlling and containing our weather. Climate change run amok. If we can't believe the weatherman, WHO can we believe?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:05 | 5709895 NoDebt
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Also in the Philly area (west of)... a heavy dusting maybe.  I'm not even going to have to shovel.  National Weather service head apologizes for us NOT getting whomped with snow- at 3 in the morning:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102371281

We canceled my kids Cub Scout meeting last night because of this bullshit.  We were going to visit the local fire house (and yes, I still love climbing around on fire trucks as much as the kids do).

 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:16 | 5709928 TruthInSunshine
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What will Wolf Blitzer (former AIPAC Lobbyist), that vaunted tower of objective, MSM, hard-hitting, impeccable, journalistic integrity do in his Situation Room on CNN, if there's not at least the 30" of snow in Manhattan?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:34 | 5709975 onewayticket2
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Massachusetts got it all.....

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:20 | 5710102 shovelhead
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You probably wouldn't love those fire-trucks so much if you really knew how much the solid-gold pensions for the guys that sit in them are costing you.

My FIL was a Retired LA City Capt. Task Force Com. and he lived like an Ottoman Pasha.

I'm not saying the job isn't dangerous or isn't a valuable service but his take would be worth over 120K in current dollars. For life.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:12 | 5709912 spinone
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Must be the same guy who calculates US GDP

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:46 | 5709841 thatthingcanfly
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False flag blizzard conducted by Mossad, probably with help from the CIA, who operates HAARP to brainwash the clouds into dropping less snow than the conspirators told the MSM. One of the Weather Channel meteorologists was found with a nail in his head and a nailgun in his hand. Then, somebody ran by and tried to shoot him with an AK-47 but missed. How do you miss? Coincidence? OK, right. You just keep believing the zio-news buddy.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:51 | 5709856 George Soros
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Priceless!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:55 | 5709862 nmewn
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lol

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:24 | 5710116 shovelhead
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What?

He isn't serious?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:57 | 5710273 BullyBearish
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The Zio News would never do anything like that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dda-0Q_XUhk

 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:47 | 5709843 BiteMeBO
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We dudded some folks.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:47 | 5709845 George Soros
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Bullish! 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:51 | 5709849 p00k1e
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That’s how martial law will look. 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:53 | 5709859 GetZeeGold
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Be careful......you might be found suidiced after 4 weeks.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:56 | 5709871 Oldwood
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Shelter in place?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:50 | 5709853 nmewn
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Well just damn.

Just when DeBlazio was all set to show the world the unbridled power of government workers driving their snow plows while singing patriotic songs.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:31 | 5710141 shovelhead
Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:54 | 5709864 Lanka
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HAARP had a wardrobe malfunction?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:55 | 5709865 Frederic Bastiat
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NYC deserves this overcautious crap for whining SO loud last time

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 07:59 | 5709877 TruthInSunshine
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If Manhattan & 1/2 of California broke off and sunk to the bottom of the ocean - a good day.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:27 | 5710121 Docnyc
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You should come visit sometime. Tons of great food and a good place to get a jam.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:02 | 5709881 Oldwood
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Do I see a made for TV docudrama coming up?

A great opportunity to show the wicked efficiency of comrades unified behind a cause to serve "the people", shared sacrifice and all that crap.

A crisis is too important to waste.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:03 | 5709884 NoPension
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Well CNN just explained it. The NWS just spent millions of dollars on a new weather model. The "new" model predicted as little as 10" of snow throughout the area. But the old models were predicting snowmaggedan.
The new model worked!
" so now we know we can throw the old models out, and use the new model!"
Money well spent.

I wonder if the old models are used to predict global war....eh...climate change? Just wondering.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:35 | 5710156 shovelhead
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We could probably off-load the old models on East Anglia College of Climatology and Cosmetology.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:03 | 5709885 George Soros
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Snow off the lows

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:06 | 5709894 Dickweed Wang
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Someone better make sure that lone yellow plane isn't headed for the new World Trade Center!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:06 | 5709897 surfer433
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Shelter in place comrades.

 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:10 | 5709902 Sanity Bear
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Clearly a planned distraction from the whole deflated footballs thing.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:29 | 5709962 NoPension
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Nascar fans ( guilty) understand this has little more to do than pressure and temperature are correlated.
Now, I have no doubt NE has a treatise on this, and how to benignly pull it off. Heated air. Maybe even another gas. Game balls just happen to be stored under or on top of a " malfunctioning" heater. Etc. lots of fun ways to pull this off. And go " wha me? Huh? Don know what your talking about"

Nascar hired the biggest known " cheater" and made him the chief inspector. He he! Pays him big bucks.
Maybe the NFL should hire ....a fuck it..who cares?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:16 | 5709919 NoPension
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The day after Sandy hit, I loaded 2 generators and enough fuel for a week, grabbed a buddy to ride shotgun ( literally ) and headed to New Jersey/ New York from Maryland.
These were "excess" stock to me, and yes, I was looking to make a nice profit. Who understands a profit better than the wealthy living on the coasts of New Jersey / New York?
There was NO power and No fuel to be had. I brought it in. What I wanted in cash, amounted to walking around money for these ...eh..folks, yeah folks!
I offered a free hookup, included. This was a 10 k surplus military set. One house, in a neighborhood , could have serviced the whole block with refrigeration, lights, cell phone charging, etc.
There was need. There was WANT. But every single individual or business I approached wanted to wait for uncle GOV to come to the rescue for free. Or was too nervous to help themselves, and trust me.
I ended up bringing that gear home, and learned a lesson. Actually left that wasteland ( they were pretty well fucked, that time) with gear that could help.
I will never do any such thing again.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:37 | 5709985 Bangin7GramRocks
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A profiteering cunt didn't get to rape some people in need. What a shame!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:43 | 5710001 NoPension
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More like " freeze and starve in the dark, you stupid ignorant unprepared motherfuckers "

I take no offense to you comment 7 gram.
It's so typical.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:48 | 5710024 Bangin7GramRocks
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Not meant to be offensive. But you entered a disaster zone offering to "help" people by selling them a busted old generator for an insane amount and some overpriced gasoline. Maybe these people were just trying to say fuck off without actually saying fuck off. I know it would surprise you real men, but we are not all useless invalids who shuffle paper in suits. The air of superiority is insufferable!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:02 | 5710044 NoPension
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Military surplus genset. $28,000.00 purchase by Uncle Sam in the 90's. Completely overhauled at Letterkenny. On a trailer. Diesel. I wanted $4,000. That included bringing it to the area.
That's how the real world works. Yo pray for " help " and miracle, here comes a guy with what you NEED.
He wants cash. That's what HE needs.
We are talking about waterfront residents in New Jersey. Not exactly destitute.
What was the "value" of a seat on a lifeboat to a Titanic passenger? Would not John Astor gladly give his entire fortune for a seat, to live another day with his beautiful young bride?
The situation applies the value. The individual responds, or not.

It's simply two ways to look at it. I think my way makes more sense.
My way, supplies reach the place they are needed the most. Your way, long lines and no supplies.

Supply and demand. Econ 101
Are you in business?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:03 | 5710054 Bangin7GramRocks
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We are in agreement with the beachfront owners. Those houses should not exist and wouldn't be built without government backed hurricane insurance. More rich welfare queens! I am just sensitive to the idea that anyone who lives near a large city on the east coast is a useless turd who doesn't know if you turn a wrench or insert it into your anus.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:39 | 5709986 quasimodo
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In certain regions folks pick themselves up after something happens and get to work. Most rurul areas folks are not afraid to start picking up the pieces and will also help a neighbor in need. Pretty much any burb or other priveleged region? Not so much, mostly inhabited with mooches who would not know how to run a portable genset if all it involved was pushing the start button(in many cases it can be that simple if wired that way) and too stoo stoo stoopid for common sense things like running them once every other week to keep things fresh.

This past summer was a very wet one with some major flooding  and damage to a smaller town an hour from here. The only extra help was some national guard troops sent in, and they for the most part stood around directing traffic. The town folks and folks from other small towns came to help, and they still managed to kick off a major event that our state has each year. Even with all that damage, they were able to host thousands of people. It would have been a helluva lot easier to just throw in the towel and have the starting point moved to another spot just down the road, but they kicked it off and in grand fashion.

Of course this is exactly what .bro wants.....for folks to be that dependant that they will cower in fear and just sit, waiting to grab a hind teat to make it all better again.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:33 | 5709938 wmbz
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Shelter in place, shelter in place damnit! It's for your own good because "we" say so.  If you must sneeze do so into your sleave!

So how many millions did this fucking "disaster" cost?

What a sick joke this type of crap has become.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:27 | 5709955 Intoxicologist
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All New York got was a snow job.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:30 | 5709960 gatorengineer
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What is not being so widely reported was the pre-emptive travel ""ban"".  Which by the way is still effect in New Jersey, for no reason whatsoever....  I am sitting at home in PA waiting for the ban to lift so I can drive through the 0.5" of unplowed snow to get to work....  I get an interstate highway travel ban when necessary.  this is the first time I have ever seen a COMPLETE travel ban....  Facism at its finest.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:33 | 5709970 mijev
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I hate it when what promises to be a huge dump disappoints me.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:39 | 5709990 NoPension
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I just had one. So now no reason for disappointment.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:45 | 5710013 youngman
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Take a few Exlax before you go to bed..you will not be dissapointed...

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:42 | 5710003 Who was that ma...
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Snow storm or snow job?  You decide.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:46 | 5710017 Watts_D_Matter
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was up bro?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:08 | 5710065 IridiumRebel
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OTAY!

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 12:49 | 5711251 Who was that ma...
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Who dat say who dat when I say who dat?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:43 | 5710010 yellowsub
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Overhyped forecast to induce panic buying for this qtr.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:45 | 5710015 ThisIsBob
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It is apparent to me that weather people, economists and market timers have much in common.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:07 | 5710062 IridiumRebel
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"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable."---John Kenneth Galbraith

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:54 | 5710028 msamour
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Hey here's a thought, just for shits and giggles.

 

What if this whole snowblizzard thing was just a ploy to empty the airport to have "unmarked aircrafts"loaded up with whatever passes for gold at 33 Liberty street? Did anyone notice any massive movements of armoured vehicles in Manhatan last night?

Just throwing it out there, out of curiosity. Watch for interesting news regarding gold movement in the next few weeks...

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:10 | 5710072 Docnyc
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No armoured vehicles seen but the garbage trucks double as snow plow vehicles and can hold a lot.

Not sure they would need to go to all this trouble to move a little barbaric relic.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 08:54 | 5710029 hotrod
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It was coming but the CLIMATE CHANGED

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:01 | 5710047 Tall Tom
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So the weather did not cooperate to provide the excuse for such dismal First Quarter Numbers.

 

Hmmm...Better luck next time?

 

I can just hear it now...

 

It..it...it was the blizzard that did not happen. People frontrun that blizzard and stopped spending as if there had been a real blizzard. That is why our sales our down. They stayed hunkered down when there was no need.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:00 | 5710049 Docnyc
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I'm looking out my window now. Roads look fine. No white out conditions. No 2-3 inches/hour. I can't believe I cancelled work for this. This is going to cost me a ton of digital fiat. I wonder what those .gov bastards are up to. We're focusing on the right hand but what is the left hand doing.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:07 | 5710060 IridiumRebel
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They need excuses for shitty sales.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:40 | 5710182 e_goldstein
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 We're focusing on the right hand but what is the left hand doing.(?)

fisting you

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 10:07 | 5710302 Bangalore Torpedo
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Simple: DeBlasio wanted to exercise his god complex and make driving after 11 pm illegal.  Lived up there in Manhattan for 2 years...and I don't miss it.  Cept the Jewish bagel shops.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:07 | 5710061 observer007
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News on JUNO: Curfew!

The blizzard dumped just a quarter of what meteorologists predicted, but that was still enough to bring New York City to a standstill.

LATEST:

http://tersee.com/#!q=New+york&t=text

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:22 | 5710107 Fix It Again Timmy
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Chad Myers the CNN weather guru!  Chad, is that rain pouring down or is that Erin Burnett giving you a golden shower?  That piece of shit couldn't predict a sunrise... I'd like to kick him in the nuts so hard, one ball goes out his left ear, the other exits via the right ear... What a crock of shit.....

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:31 | 5710136 lucyvp
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Didn't you hear??? the all powerful DeBlasio signed an executive order banning big blizzards :)

 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 10:45 | 5710514 paint it red ca...
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I had a NOAA fuck confess to me at a, contrary to prediction, rained out SC balloon rally that they had no windows in their building...

What does that tell you? Tells me you better ask someone that makes their livelihood outdoors.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:43 | 5710214 pupdog1
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If we fired 2/3 of these six-figure NOAA fucks, would anyone notice a difference?

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:55 | 5710258 YouSerious
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Still higher rating than the Russians :)

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:54 | 5710259 YouSerious
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Still higher rating than the Russians :)

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:56 | 5710268 Fíréan
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Flying over NYC area, albeit slightly out over sea and  at 41000, and making good headway.

http://www.flightradar24.com/BLOCKED/55f6d17

 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 10:33 | 5710452 shovelhead
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MASSAPEQUA            14.2   427 AM  1/27  PUBLIC

I just had a vision of Hillary going outside to yell at the NYC sanitation worker sent over to shovel her out, but he was gone for his contractual 2 hour coffee break, and she slips and falls, knocking herself out. Meanwhile, the local townie snowplow driver, figuring to score some points, decides to plow out the former Sec. State and Presidents driveway and plows the unconscious woman into a snowbank.

Now a APB is issued for the missing Hillary and the FBI, having no leads, determine that it might be a terrorist kidnapping and alert Homeland Security who promptly put the CIA on the case, who also have no leads but not wishing to look dumbfounded, alert the Pentagon that their intelligence indicates that loyalists to the Syrian leader Assad are responsible for the missing former Sec. State.

CENTCOM is alerted and the fighter-bombers tasked to eliminate IS are now bombing deeper into Syria into Assad held territory, which draws an immediate response from Russia, who issue a no-fly zone edict over Syria.

The world is poised for a nuclear superpower confrontation over Syria when the former Sec. States body is found by reports of a pack of feral dogs feeding on something in a snowbank.

 

Maybe I should switch to decaf.

 

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 10:41 | 5710494 paint it red ca...
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Pffft, the blizzard that never was.

So much for GDP growth.

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 10:47 | 5710508 B.J. Worthy
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They totally blew a next-day forecast but their multi-decade predictions are "settled science."

Tue, 01/27/2015 - 11:19 | 5710725 chinaboy
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High frequency weather forecasting.

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