ALL NYC BRIDGES AND TUNNELS CLOSING AT 2:30 P.M.

[LiberalElite]

Source: CNN

this is from Gov. Cuomo press conf.

Read more: Link to source

[Botany]

1. Oh my Dog!

[LiberalElite]

2. Nobody's escaping - unless they have cross-country skis. eom

[Botany]

6. The East and Hudson Rivers aren't frozen .....

..... the only way out is north through Washington Heights and then see if
you can cross over to the Bronx and then head north and east to Connecticut.

[Sanity Claws]

3. That does not give a whole lot of notice

[LiberalElite]

4. Agreed. They gave more notice for

the other closures - but, in earlier press conference Cuomo did mention this particular closure was being discussed with Christie. Also, earlier today they said Broadway shows were still going on - now they're not. IMO it's just a rapidly worsening situation and shit happens.

[NutmegYankee]

5. The storm has really changed.

In just the last hour it went from light snowfall to near blizzard conditions in SE Conn. NYC is getting it even worse.

[christx30]

7. Yep. Looks like the storm suddenly got worse

and it forced a decision. I think it was probably a good one. I hope everyone is safe and they can get homeless people off the streets and into shelters until it passes.

[LiberalElite]

10. NYC has a "Code Blue" program now that is

intended to get the homeless off the streets in cold weather. They had social workers making rounds ahead of this storm.

[forest444]

8. You gotta feel for New Yorkers. When it's not the weather, it's this:

[LiberalElite]

9. Heh. I tried to get away from Crispie bloviating on CNN

switched to a local news station - he was on there too. Oh, the extra fun of living in the "Tri-State Area."

[forest444]

16. An Italian acquaintance once pointed this out to me:

Italy, with its history of corruption, betrayal, assassinations, and intrigue galore, gave us the Renaissance.

Switzerland gave us the cuckoo clock.

I sometimes think of big city politics that way: it may be more colorful and at times more scandalous than what our friends in the west and midwest see (key word there being 'see'); but where would we, as a nation, be without our northeastern and big city politicians.

Crisco excluded, of course.

[maryellen99]

11. And of course RWers are blasting DeBlasio and Cuomo on FB

They are calling them pu**ies, saying that NYC is a nanny state and that they can't make them stay home. They are also pissed that the malls are closed.

[NYC Liberal]

12. They also get blasted when things are NOT closed, in which case

they are attacked for putting people in danger and being incompetent.

[LiberalElite]

13. This is one of the drawbacks of teh internets -

it gives morons a platform upon which to spew incessantly and feed their impotent rage.

[christx30]

19. Yeah, but they do have a talent

for being able to blast anyone for anything.
Obama doesn't visit the troops at Walter Reid. "Obama is ignoring our brave troops! Impeach!"
Obama visits troops at Walter Reid. "Look at this piece of ______ over there making this all about him. Gawd it makes me sick!"

Best thing to do is just ignore them. They'll never be happy as long as a black guy is president. And they will never even grudgingly admit that any dem has a good idea.

[Tab]

14. Not just bridges and tunnels but ALL ROADS

[LiberalElite]

15. They decided in stages - about the first was a 2 hour notice that the

public transit bus lines would stop running at Noon.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

17. Revised NYC area estimated snowfall totals

[LiberalElite]

18. YIKES! eom

[Unknown Beatle]

20. Governor Cuomo said "Will we arrest you" if we catch you driving, referring

to the travel ban that's in effect in NYC.

[LiberalElite]

21. Ok with me if they're not out for a good reason

this isn't a joke. Cars get stuck and potentially ambulances and other emergency vehicles get delayed behind them. The streets have to be plowed. The snow was falling too fast for the plows to keep up. That's why they stopped the buses running at noon. During a snowstorm a few years ago they didn't do that and the streets were "littered' with stuck buses.