How To Shut Someone Up The Next Time They Blame The Winter For The Economic Collapse
I don't think it's enough to just look at the temperature. You have to look at the nation as a whole but also at the regional concentration of businesses.
I live outside Boston and we were severely affected (and still are) by the winter. Yes, they say we had the Polar Vortex last year but we also had record breaking lows this year, for weeks at a time. And of course the huge amounts of snow. Our public transportation is still not running 100%. We had so many snow days were people could not go to work, of course that effects productivity. The airports and highways were shut down for several days including state of emergency travel bans. School closings, hospitals and doctor offices on minimal staff, government offices and universities closed, every single town budget busted etc.
I don't think the extra income of snow plow drivers can make up for all of that. :-)
This was a very tough winter for us here. Luckily not so much for the rest of the nation, not even the New York area. Maybe that is the point he is trying to make in this article. But he did not express that clear enough.
I don't think it's enough to just look at the temperature. You have to look at the nation as a whole but also at the regional concentration of businesses.
I live outside Boston and we were severely affected (and still are) by the winter. Yes, they say we had the Polar Vortex last year but we also had record breaking lows this year, for weeks at a time. And of course the huge amounts of snow. Our public transportation is still not running 100%. We had so many snow days were people could not go to work, of course that effects productivity. The airports and highways were shut down for several days including state of emergency travel bans. School closings, hospitals and doctor offices on minimal staff, government offices and universities closed, every single town budget busted etc.
I don't think the extra income of snow plow drivers can make up for all of that. :-)
This was a very tough winter for us here. Luckily not so much for the rest of the nation, not even the New York area. Maybe that is the point he is trying to make in this article. But he did not express that clear enough.
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