Unless you are avoiding the news for some reason, you’ve probably heard about the huge snowstorm barreling toward the Northeast this very minute. New York City — which storms normally dance around in these instances — is predicted to get over a foot of the white stuff.
And to think, just Thursday I was bragging to a cab driver in Rochester about how ‘we don’t get that kind of weather where I live.’
Oops.
Well, it will make a lovely white Christmas for everyone visiting Manhattan (my sister and her husband included). But the local headlines are focused primarily on the possible loss of retail dollars if shoppers can’t get to the stores in the bad weather.
Have any of these people ever been to New York City in a snowstorm?
Minutes — and I mean literally minutes — after major inches of snow have been dumped on the city, they disappear from the streets and sidewalks. Our street cleaning crews are on it…sometimes quicker than I — a dog owner — would prefer.
Those streets are cleared and salted pronto, and I have to pull out the dog booties to get Rory to venture out since the salt really bothers his feet. It’s either embarrassing booties, or me carrying him all the way to Central Park…and ya gotta romp in Central Park in the snow. It’s a New York City tradition.
Just like shopping at Christmas time. We’ll get out there, don’t you worry.
And if it’s that bad, there’s always online, right?
