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Did New York overreact? Mayor offers no apologies
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Aug 29, 2011 02:55am |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - The Gazette (Montreal) |
| News Date | Monday, August 29, 2011 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It took Canadians living in New York to put into perspective what some locals were calling the city's "overreaction" in the way it prepared for the arrival of Hurricane Irene.
The question everyone was asking was whether it was necessary - in light of Irene's limited impact - to order about 370,000 people to flee, and to shut down regional mass transit services to the point where they'd almost certainly remain off-line come Monday morning's commute.
For a few New Yorkers - who as a group are not known for their patience - Mayor Michael Bloomberg was overcompensating for his administration's disastrous response to a snowfall last Christmas, which left people in large swaths of the city stranded for days.
Yet in what may be a uniquely Canadian analysis, Mara Abols of Toronto pointed out that New York officials - not used to responding to such weather events - had reacted in much the same way hurricane-experienced Florida might respond to a snowstorm. "It's kind of ironic in the sense that there are people who wish there had been more damage - in a perverse way - because it was so hyped up," added the 33-year-old lawyer, who lives in an apartment toward the more-storm-battered southern part of New York's Manhattan borough. |
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