AC Boat Show cancelled?
Yes it was, for Saturday at least. The snow that fell Friday into Saturday was enough for show promoters to cancel the show just 10 minutes before it was to open on Saturday. Vendors and patrons that had traveled from all over NJ and from out of state were furious.
The local media claimed there was about 24 inches of snow that fell upon Atlantic City by Saturday morning. I walked from the hotel to the AC Convention Center through some virgin snow and never found any that was even close to coming up to my knees. Not sure where the weathermen on the news were getting their information from but it was not from downtown Atlantic City. I estimate there was 10″ of the white stuff at best at 9:30 am.
The roads were actually pretty clear, most were plowed and were showing 75% or more blacktop. Despite what seemed like only a few inches it crippled the town all day. The outlets, the Pier at Caesar’s and a 24 hour Dunkin Donuts that I tried to stop at were all closed for the entire day.
Some of the casinos had very few tables open claiming they had no staff due to the store. Some of the more upscale casinos we later found out made special arrangements reserving almost a thousand rooms for staff to come in on Friday and stay the weekend to ensure that everything remained open and running smoothly for their guests. We wish that was the case where we stayed…all but one restaurant was open and it was impossible to get a seat a table game all day.
Even when we left on Sunday we could hardly believe how everyone was reacting and what the media making such a fuss about. There still was not 24″ of snow in AC to be found anywhere except where someone shoveled or plowed. We were even more amazed as we pulled into the driveway and saw out grass peeking through the snow…guess you really can’t depend on anything the weatherman says-they were predicting 6-10″ for our area…again 2″ at best was on the ground.
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