NYC vs. Winter
NEW YORKâThe Big Apple braces for the coming fury of the powers of Niflheim, the Norse realm of ice, heralded on Wednesday morning by a fall of light sleet and a thin layer of snow upon the ground.
Mayor Bloomberg says New York is armed with hundreds of snowplows and salt spreaders and ready to take on the frost giants of Thrym and the ice devils from Cania, the Eighth Layer of Baator. The mayor told reporters at City Hall that there are 1,000 sanitation workers on duty tonight to operate 365 salt spreaders, which he calls "our first line of defense against the snow oozes and ice toads." The city has about 185-thousand tons of rock salt stored at 38 sites in the five boroughs. The city will also have 2,000 trucks with snow plows attached ready to go by midnight tonight, though none of these will be defendable from the frostfell yetis expected to soon run rampant.
posted by Jeff LaSala at 8:36 AM
1 Comments:
Ice toads eh? Well, no one knows more about toadying than a big-city mayor. Good post though. Down here in Cincinnati, where you think we'd be used to the cold, everyone panics whenever there's the slightest snow warning, stocking up on comestibles at the grocery store as if they were hunkering down in the fallout shelter for eight months. Ridiculous. For my part, I think the ice on the power lines looks downright purty...
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