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This may not be a totally bad thing if this storm heads out to sea or fizzles. As a emergency manager with 30 years of experience at the county, state and federal levels these storms are not what we need right now. Our agency is now directly involved with the distribution of the vaccine to first responders and senior citizens in the Mid-Atlantic and NE regions of the US. Our logistical mission includes aircraft and surface transportation along with reserve and national guard units along with state and county assets on a 24/7 basis. The delays this storm will cause will affect the delivery and dosing of thousands of people who need it most. If this thing ends up out to sea it may actually save lives. Lets remember these storms cause serious injury and deaths to older or more vulnerable citizens, neighbors and family members during a normal year. COVID-19 has multiplied the challenges exponentially. Before you hope and pray for such dangerous conditions, please think about those most at risk and those first responders trying their best to serve the public. We receive our briefings from NWS & 2 private services. The private services have been spot-on this winter and have not been impressed by the signals they were seeing early on with this event and have expressed concern with local media and even some NWS offices for hyping this storm based solely on model outputs so far in advance. (Our contract does not allow me to divulge specifics, but both services are not seeing major amounts of snow accumulations in Metro Philly at this point relative to other areas of responsibility that will be more heavily affected). As I have said before - I learn much more here. Although they will answer specific questions on the conference calls or Zoom meetings, they have no interest in teaching or disclosing their methods to their clients (government agencies, utilities, bulk power transmission authorities, fuel transmission lines, airlines, natural gas suppliers, etc.). Some of the folks here are amazing (a few clearly wish-cast) - insights, discussions, explanations are incredibly helpful to me when I’m involved with these briefings. It's hard to believe this is a hobby considering all you guys put in to it. Stay Safe - Stay Healthy

This may not be a totally bad thing if this thing heads off somewhere else. I have been involved with emergency management at the county, state and federal levels for almost 30 years. Our agency is now directly involved with a logistical mission that easily rivals D-Day (less the ships) that include 10’s of thousands of trucks loads/last mile deliveries, over a thousand aircrews on hundreds of aircraft, regular army, reserve units and national guard units along with state and county assets all orchestrated 24/7 to delivering vaccines to the MidAtlantic NE region front line workers and first responders most at risk. The delays this storm will cause will be monumental. If this thing ends up dry slotting here and dumping somewhere else it may actually save lives locally. Having to re-task guard units, local assets and reroute aircraft and trucks will take a week or more to recover from. Truth is, these storms cause serious injury and deaths to older or more health challenged citizens, neighbors and family members during a “normal year”, this year especially with CO-19 the challenges have multiplied exponentially. Maybe we should hope for a nice warm rainy winter this year. We receive our briefings from NWS and two private services. The private services have been spot-on, early-on during the majority of heavy weather events and even with their tropical discussions (I am not permitted to divulge specifics, but both services were bearish on the actually snow accumulations in Metro Philly since Sunday). I learn much more here. Although they will answer specific questions, they have neither the time nor inclination to teach even fundamental meteorology. Some of the folks here are amazing - insights, discussions, explanations are incredibly helpful to me when I’m involved with one of our briefs. Keep up the awesome work, you guys should get paid for this. Stay Safe / Stay Healthy!