Mammele, forecasting is as much an art as a science. In the NYC area, the track a storm takes deferment new where a storm hits and tracks can shift at last minute. When the track takes a storm thru the northwest suburbs ( NJ, Rockland County ) we in Long Island will get very little. However in a storm that tracks east, like that winter storm you referred to, residents of Suffolk County on LI got clobbered. Several years ago commuters were stranded on cold and dark trains for hours. It takes time to move trains to railyards and you can’t wait until the last minute to see if the storm track changed. They’d rather on the side of passenger safety and I agree
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