E pare che per Michael Bloomberg la tempesta di Natale sia stata l'equivalente della Baia dei porci. Anche se, nota Nate Silver, qualche piccola scusante il sindaco di New York ce l'ha (tipo il fatto che a Natale pochi hanno voglia di lavorare).
This week’s storm wasn’t as much of a surprise. But — and this is just a guess — perhaps the fact that the forecast worsened significantly on Christmas Day, the very last day that most people want to think about disaster planning, contributed to a sluggish response. Then, when the snowfall began falling late on Sunday morning, it was fairly light at first — perhaps providing for some false sense of security — but it became quite severe quite quickly, and the accumulation was fairly rapid even by the standards of a blizzard. No, this is not an excuse: mistakes were made during the Bloomberg Blizzard, and they had serious consequences. But the nature of a winter storm is such that small mistakes can compound into large ones rather easily; being slightly tardy in the first few hours might eventually translate into an extra day or two before the city digs itself out. And it may be much longer than that before Mr. Bloomberg entirely repairs his reputation.
FiveThirtyEight (New York Times)
