Question for Weather mavins.

Road crew is spreading brine on  '78.


Is snow and ice expected?


Not really but after last week do you blame them?


Where on 78?  Snow is being predicted for later today for an area west of us.


Could maybe see some tomorrow. But get ready for some crazy cold Thursday. 


max_weisenfeld said:
Not really but after last week do you blame them?

 Yes. Just because last week’s storm was seriously underestimated doesn’t mean the right response is to ridiculously overprepare for every subsequent whiff of winter precipitation.  

I don’t really fault the powers-that-be for last week, as I think that storm really snuck up on people (including me). But if Murphy’s response is to send the trucks out every time a dusting is forecast, he is an idiot. 


Smedley said:


max_weisenfeld said:
Not really but after last week do you blame them?
 Yes. Just because last week’s storm was seriously underestimated doesn’t mean the right response is to ridiculously overprepare for every subsequent whiff of winter precipitation.  
I don’t really fault the powers-that-be for last week, as I think that storm really snuck up on people (including me). But if Murphy’s response is to send the trucks out every time a dusting is forecast, he is an idiot. 

The problem of overreaction is not Murphy, it's NJ citizens.  After Thursday, that's what the loudest voices were demanding -- an extreme reaction to every prediction of snow. People like you and I aren't blaming the governor and mayors for the disaster, but an awful lot of people are.  In today's S-L they're even slamming Murphy because the place he stopped for dinner late Thursday night was too upscale.

Mostly we get the government we demand.  And because so many citizens are themselves irrational and reactive, we get a government that responds in an irrational reactive manner.


I see your point, kind of. 

But, good governance and leadership is about doing the right thing, which isn't checking which way the wind is blowing on a given day and kowtowing to the whims of the rabble in the pit.

This should resonate particularly for a guy like Murphy. He's not a career politician, he has more money than he would need in 10 lifetimes probably, and if this governor thing doesn't work out, I'm sure he'd have plenty of opportunities in consulting or philanthropy or diplomacy or some such.   

And even if he has aspirations for higher office, he'd put himself in a better position for that if he makes a name for himself by doing what he thinks is right, rather than just take the path of least resistance and respond, as you put it, in an irrational and reactive manner. 

Say even if, absolute worst case for him, he's recalled. If he's recalled for standing on his principles, if I were him I'd rather go out that way than last a mediocre term just getting by doing the same-old same-old.    



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