Airports not accommodating passengers.
Jan 28, 2015, 8:10 am
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Fox News...LOL. All of the networks were absolutely going mental. For all I know Fox was doing less blizzard coverage as there isn't a good way to tie this storm directly to Obama. 
I too have lived all over, including Chicago, DC, and Denver. Also spent a lot of time in Western NY and Canada. All places that get snow...but don't totally panic about it.
DC probably falls into the category of places that shut down easily with small snowfall totals (I remember days when everybody worked from home because of 3-4 inches), but the hysterics and proclamations that the storms were "historic" and of such an epic proportion that we'll talk about them a century from now were not there.
I do like the pictures from Boston, though. They got a lot of snow and will probably talk about it until the next time they get a lot of snow.
I too have lived all over, including Chicago, DC, and Denver. Also spent a lot of time in Western NY and Canada. All places that get snow...but don't totally panic about it.
DC probably falls into the category of places that shut down easily with small snowfall totals (I remember days when everybody worked from home because of 3-4 inches), but the hysterics and proclamations that the storms were "historic" and of such an epic proportion that we'll talk about them a century from now were not there.
I do like the pictures from Boston, though. They got a lot of snow and will probably talk about it until the next time they get a lot of snow.
My response was due to unnecessary nastiness about millions of people who live in a different part of the country.
If I made a post generalizing about the millions of people who live in the heartland and their views on _________, I'd expect to be called out too. It's petty, unnecessary, and mean-spirited.
Jan 28, 2015, 8:36 am
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Jan 28, 2015, 8:37 am
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I'm sure a city like Kansas City would handle 6 inches to a foot of snow like it's no big deal, and there wouldn't be closings... Oh, wait.
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/...ssouri-kansas/
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...ut-begins.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...zona-rosa.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...-closures.html
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/...ssouri-kansas/
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...ut-begins.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...zona-rosa.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...-closures.html
Jan 28, 2015, 8:43 am
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I'm sure a city like Kansas City would handle 6 inches to a foot of snow like it's no big deal, and there wouldn't be closings... Oh, wait.
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/...ssouri-kansas/
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...ut-begins.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...zona-rosa.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...-closures.html
http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/...ssouri-kansas/
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local...ut-begins.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...zona-rosa.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascit...-closures.html
Jan 28, 2015, 8:52 am
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What possible incentive would an airport have to spend resources treating passengers like "valued clients" and competing for their business? If you have to catch a plane, where else are you going to go?
Jan 28, 2015, 9:55 am
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You guys are missing the point. I'm not saying we don't ever close things for snow: I'm saying we don't proclaim to the world that our snow is history-making and a disaster of epic proportions. We don't flip into wall-to-wall 24 hour weather news mode every time it snows. I don't suddenly feel the need to rush to the store and buy an insane amount of carbohydrates. There's less drama about it, even when it jacks up the normal flow of business/travel for a day or two.
But fine, you guys carry on. I'm wrong about this, and I look forward to visiting the Great January 2015 Snowstorm Museum when it opens next year. I mean, if it's the biggest storm in history, it should get a museum, right? @:-)
There's less drama about it, even when it jacks up the normal flow of business/travel for a day or two.But fine, you guys carry on. I'm wrong about this, and I look forward to visiting the Great January 2015 Snowstorm Museum when it opens next year. I mean, if it's the biggest storm in history, it should get a museum, right? @:-)
Jan 28, 2015, 11:35 am
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Everything is relative. Fortunately I never had to experience this, which was Regina in 1947. I will note, however, that snow in February here usually persists until April at least ( although this year it has unseasonably melted to give e brief respite). I'm not sure that I would have been happy dealing with this for months, although the impact on work etc would be brief I would expect. Life must go on
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Jan 28, 2015, 11:50 am
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Jan 28, 2015, 12:24 pm
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You guys are missing the point. I'm not saying we don't ever close things for snow: I'm saying we don't proclaim to the world that our snow is history-making and a disaster of epic proportions. We don't flip into wall-to-wall 24 hour weather news mode every time it snows. I don't suddenly feel the need to rush to the store and buy an insane amount of carbohydrates. There's less drama about it, even when it jacks up the normal flow of business/travel for a day or two.
But fine, you guys carry on. I'm wrong about this, and I look forward to visiting the Great January 2015 Snowstorm Museum when it opens next year. I mean, if it's the biggest storm in history, it should get a museum, right? @:-)
There's less drama about it, even when it jacks up the normal flow of business/travel for a day or two.But fine, you guys carry on. I'm wrong about this, and I look forward to visiting the Great January 2015 Snowstorm Museum when it opens next year. I mean, if it's the biggest storm in history, it should get a museum, right? @:-)
Come down off the cross, someone else needs the wood...
Jan 28, 2015, 1:16 pm
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Yeah, 10 inches of snow in Chicago, repeatedly, last winter and no one said "boo." It's because the media are largely based in NYC that we get the multi-day freakout over almost nothing.
And as for the comment about ATL: they go nuts over 1/8".
And as for the comment about ATL: they go nuts over 1/8".
Jan 28, 2015, 1:19 pm
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You paid the airport less than $5 as a PFC for that segment, and it's likely the airport doesn't even get to keep it all. What do you expect?
Jan 28, 2015, 1:20 pm
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US Air got American Wested.
Continental got United.
American got US Airwaysed.
Passengers got screwed.
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