No. We don’t get blizzards annually in NYC. Typically, decades go by without anything this bad. But ... the climate appears to be changing.

Ha! My grandma in California called me in a panic yesterday - “I heard you’re getting two feet of snow! Are you going to be okay? Do you have snow gear? Do you have enough water if the power goes out?”

Now that Nokia’s in the shitter, I guess Finns need to be proud of something. ;-)

There isn’t an airport in the world that can operate through 30" of snow in 24 hours. Even a Siberian airport where all of the planes are equipped with skis would have to shut down. Airports in Finland stay open because they just don’t get very much snow. This single snowstorm will drop more snow over 24 hours then…

I’ve lived in Buffalo and Rochester, both of which generally accumulate a great deal of snow in the winter and my experience has been that in cities you run out of places to put the snow when you get a lot very quickly. One year that I lived in Buffalo, they would load up a shit ton of construction dump trucks with…

I love how every idiot here thinks keeping all the roads in NYC clear is a fucking piece of cake.

So all 40 of you can get to your reindeer farms. There are 8 million people in NYC dumbass.

I am guessing you have never lived in a city where it snows a lot. If there was a lot of snow still on the ground 2 days after the worst of the storm, you have a point. But you can’t critique a city’s snow removal capabilities on the day of the storm.

The Metro-NYC area has 4 times the population of Finland. That's just one city area. I'm sure there's a few smug people there, too. But not one reindeer. So, it ain't as easy as it might sound.

Ok settle down there guy. While I agree snow tires are a great help and would greatly aide a lot of people in winter, “a few inches” of snow isn’t going render any 4x4 completely unusable unless the tires are completely bald...

The logistics are different in New York. Most places that get a lot of snow can run a plow down the roadway to keep it clear. That is pretty quick, and can keep up with even heavy snowfall. In New York, there is nowhere for the snow to go on the roadside. They can’t just remove the snow from the roads, they have to…

It’s weird that one could get on a train and go anywhere one wants.

Show me an city in Finland at least 10 percent the size of NY

More people live in New York City than the entire country of Finland.

The city of New York is a lot bigger than any town you’re trying to compare it to. And then it is surrounded by infinite towns/cities all up and down the seaboard....so you can not compare it to a place a Finland where the largest town has only half a million people

Though in your link itself they acknowledge that it’s a matter of scale (Helsinki has <600,000 residents and only has ~600 landings/take-offs per day).

Road closure ≠ house arrest

That is so weird. Really?