Yes, we can’t all be hanging out at South Beach like the socialist elite…
Via NY Post:
Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina cluelessly defended the decision to keep schools open during Thursday’s lethal Nor’easter – incredibly saying “it’s a beautiful day out there,” as snow and freezing rain fell outside.
“It has totally stopped snowing. It’s absolutely a beautiful day out there right now,” she said at a morning news conference in Brooklyn with Mayor Bill de Blasio. [ed.- there was over a foot of snow during the morning, in different areas there was a virtual “white-out”. Governor Cuomo declared a State of Emergency].
Asked to elaborate, Farina said, “Coming down the stairs, the most obvious thing is it stopped snowing. The second thing, it’s getting warmer – which means that theoretically the snow will start melting.”
She also said that because people were out and about, it must be nicer out.
“I guess the other thing, in looking out the window … there’s a lot of people on the streets,” she said before cracking a flippant joke.
“Obviously it’s not as nice as it is where my husband is in South Beach, but it’s a lot better than it was before.” ” she said, as she and de Blasio burst out laughing.
Update:
City schools were open today because Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina thought “it was a beautiful day”.
Yet not so beautiful that SHE should have to go out in it to a townhall meeting this evening:
#nycschools open, but this from Carmen Farina's office: "*Due to Inclement Weather, Tonight’s District 23 Town Hall Meeting is Cancelled"
— NYDN Daily Politics (@DNDailyPolitics) February 13, 2014
These folks don’t look like they enjoyed Ms. Farina’s “beautiful day”. The picture is reportedly of a school bus/car crash outside a school in the Bronx.
School bus accident in the Bronx this morning in the snow storm. Di Blasio time to resign you're a Danger to NYC… pic.twitter.com/JsrDDeJ0xM
— Vera Swensen (@Vera_S_1) February 13, 2014