Rusco and Amandistan, uhh, you completely miss the point about a big strom hitting New York City.
You both say, "Well, my area got hit with 35 inches of snow or 90 mph winds and it is no problem at all" Uhh, do you have 20 million people where you live? That's the point of a big storm hitting New York City. The point is that 30 inches of snow and hurricane winds are hitting twenty million people. Twenty million people who have to get to school, to work, to hospitals.... Not a few thousand, but millions! When a big storm hits your locale, the logistics of making sure a few thousand people are safe and able to move about are relatively easy. Now picture 20 million people, a population greater than most countries, who are being blasted by hurricane winds or three feet of snow.
That's what it's about. A huge concentration of people in a small area getting pounded by a storm. Look, take a worst case scenario as an example. If an atomic bomb gets dropped on Nome, Alaska...terrible event, but a few thousand people are affected. If that same bomb falls on NYC...we are dealing with massive loss of life, tens of millions gone, and the collapse of financial institutions that would crumble the entire world's economy. Now obvioulsy a snow storm would not have as cataclysmic effects of a nuke, but it is the size of the target, the 12 million people living in NYC, that is the big deal. Snow storm hits NYC we are looking at something that has a great effect on millions upon millions of people.
Question: Three feet of heavy snow and 70 mph winds is coming at a town of three hundred people and coming at New York City. Same storm. Which mayor is facing a tougher job?