By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Johna Till Johnson and Vladimir Brezina
By rights, New York City should still be digging out from the blizzard that was to be “historic, catastrophic”—except that it wasn’t.
The storm was predicted to bury New York in up to thirty inches of snow. In anticipation, the Mayor and the Governor declared a state of emergency, shut down the subway system, and banned all vehicles (including taxis and delivery bicycles) on the grounds that stalled vehicles would impede emergency efforts.
And then the blizzard didn’t happen. True, Long Island got a couple of feet of snow. And coastal New England, including Boston, got hammered.
But here in New York, we awoke to a mere eight inches of snow in Central Park… and a government-mandated, universally observed, snow day.
It was great!