A few more thoughts on yesterday's storm and the response to it. This will take a number of tweets and I will try to do them quickly, but I may get interrupted. If that happens, please be a little patient with me. 1/x
I'll recognize up front that the snowfall forecast was adequate in some locations, but pretty bad in other locations. Nonetheless, at least here in New Jersey, you're being scammed by senior political leadership (yeah, I know, what a shocker) 2/x
Please remember the entire forecast. Many locations that got more snow than forecast also received less sleet and freezing rain than forecast. The atmosphere stayed colder than forecast, and you traded less sleet/freezing rain for more snow. 3/x
Now, I'm going to say something that all of you who follow me know, but which apparently will be breaking news to the @GovMurphy administration. Sleet and freezing rain are NOT driver-friendly weather phenomena. 4/x
So when the NJDOT person says they salted the roads, and planned to clean them up after the forecast 4 inches of snow fell, and their plans were ruined when 8 inches of snow fell, you're being scammed. 5/x
Because what they are saying is that after 4 inches of snow fell, and everyone hit the roads to go home, they were planning to clean up while freezing rain/sleet were pouring down out of the sky. That's not a plan; that's a recipe for disaster. 6/x
So whether you got 8" of snow with a little sleet and freezing rain, or 4" of snow with a boadload of sleet/freezing rain, NJDOT planning would have produced the same result for NJ drivers. You were screwed. And now they are trying to trick you. I'm done. 7/fin
