“What an excellent expression of thinking New York is the only place on Earth.”
Yup. One might have thought that people would be embarrassed about their narrowmindedness.
My wife and I just visited Northern and Southern California. 85 degrees in the south, no rain, people going to the beach. Kiddushes held outdoors — in February. In the north, the largest cross country ski area in North America was closed for lack of snow. The Lake Tahoe area, where snowpack is generally measured in feet, not inches, had no snow at all.
2014 was overall the warmest year ever since reliable worldwide measurements became available in 1880. Eastern North America is the only populated area in the world that has escaped that trend. Be grateful that we have escaped that trend — so far.
(And if you live in South Brooklyn, the Rockaway Peninsula, or South Staten Island, be prepared for more Sandy’s.)