Bloomberg, a self-made billionaire who finances his own campaigns, rarely admits mistakes but told a news conference on Wednesday that “we didn’t do as good a job as we wanted to do.” The city had built a reputation for efficient snow cleanup with its fleet of trash-removal trucks fitted with snow plows that spread salt on the city’s 6,000 miles (9,600 km) of roads. The disparity continued Tuesday with even mail carriers unable to make their rounds in parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Meanwhile, New Jersey will seek federal aid to help cover the costs related to the winter storm. machine.” The plan worked.
Sixteen inches of snow may fall in New Brunswick, and rain may accompany the snow in Nova Scotia.Winds may gust to 87 mph (140 kph) in eastern Nova Scotia and 80 mph in western Newfoundland, the agency said. its ability to sort of gin up the p.r.
We'll try to find out what went wrong.'" If you put this week’s blizzard in a lineup with other recent New York snowstorms, it would not particularly stand out. Interstate 280 westbound, one of the main approaches to downtown Newark, was almost deserted at 8 a.m. and acting Governor Stephen Sweeney ordered state offices closed.Home Depot Inc., the world’s largest home improvement retailer, is shipping additional snow shovels, snow blowers and ice melt to stores from North Carolina to Maine, said Ron DeFeo, a company spokesman.New York City will have 365 salt spreaders and 1,700 snowplows on the streets, and sanitation department employees will work 12-hour shifts, Bloomberg said yesterday.Boston and its suburbs may receive as much as 18 inches from the storm, said Alan Dunham, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Taunton, Massachusetts. If we were grading him on his response to the snowstorm, he would get an ‘F,’” Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. said on Wednesday.
"There's no question - we are an administration that has been built on accountability," he said. Mayor Michael Bloomberg held a press conference at F&F Hardware and Paint discussing the status of the blizzard and plowing progress. The event will be Christie’s first public appearance since the blizzard hit last weekend. The mayor admitted today that the botched snow removal effort this week was a “character building” experience for him. It was the first significant winter storm of the 2010–11 North American winter storm season and the fifth North American blizzard of 2010. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attends a news conference at the C40 Hong Kong Workshop of the International Conference On Climate Change 2010 in Hong Kong November 5, 2010. Part of central Massachusetts may receive as much as 22 inches.U.S. Published on December 27, 2010… The Blizzard of 2010 may have forever dented Mayor Bloomberg’s popularity. Residents of those neighborhoods — who, after three days, were still trying to dig out their cars — are apoplectic. The December 2010 North American blizzard was a major nor'easter and historic blizzard affecting the Contiguous United States and portions of Canada from December 5–29, 2010. Flights into Boston are set to resume after 11 a.m. today, he said.American Airlines and its commuter carrier, American Eagle, canceled 446 flights today, said Ed Martelle, a spokesman. “The storm just got ahead of us and we couldn’t keep up,” Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty told NY1 television. After being buried under an avalanche of complaints from constituents, political critics and even allies, Hizzoner finally admitted the storm was not well-handled. "Will somebody find a street where people shovel their car out and then say we didn't plow it? The Blizzard of 2010 dumped between 18 and 24 inches of snow - with 29 inches reported in parts of Staten Island - and winds gusts up to 60 mph. The sanitation union warned in October that cuts would leave the department unable to handle a big snowstorm. "It stopped snowing Monday and by [today] we will have cleared all the streets.
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"When it works, it works and we take credit, and when it doesn't work, we stand up there and say, 'OK, we did it.
There were also reports of tow trucks driving with plows up, insiders said. Airlines in some cases grounded flights ahead of the storm to keep planes from getting stuck at closed facilities.Delta Air Lines Inc. cut 1,000 flights systemwide, said Trebor Banstetter, an airline spokesman.“As the weather clears, we are aiming to resume normal operations late Monday and into Tuesday across the East Coast,” Banstetter said in an e-mail.Continental Airlines and its regional partner carriers have canceled 800 flights for today, while United grounded 175, said Mike Trevino, a spokesman for United Continental Holdings Inc.
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy International and Newark Liberty airports opened tonight for outgoing traffic.“There may have been storms that equaled this, but it doesn’t get much worse than this,” Tom Kines, a meteorologist at State College, Pennsylvania-based AccuWeather Inc., said by telephone.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising star in the Democratic Party, has played the blizzard for political gain in his New Jersey city.