Mr. Bloomberg faced criticism for not declaring an emergency as the blizzard bore down last month.
So as another blizzard bears down on the Washington region, here are some safety tips from the experts.
"This is not a life," he said one recent afternoon, as a blizzard raced down from the mountains.
Three months after that, an early blizzard knocked down two more big trees, wrecking the remaining part of their house.
Mr. Kammerer was among the thousands of residents who lost power during the blizzard, hunkering down at home with his family playing the board game Trouble by candlelight.
5 12 p.m. | Updated With a real blizzard bearing down on New England, the policy wonks in the White House tried every which way they could on Friday to warn of the dangers of a different kind of storm.
A major spring blizzard shut down major highways and paralyzed the Southern Plains as residents of Oklahoma and Texas prepared for up to a foot of snow, freezing 45-mile-an-hour winds and huge snowdrifts.
As a blizzard bore down on New York City on Sunday and Monday, 911 dispatchers fielded tens of thousands of calls, trying to triage them by level of severity, from snowed-in cars at the low end to life-threatening emergencies at the highest.
The blizzard died down, leaving the mountains as randomly covered with snow as if a blind woman had thrown a sheet over them, the upper branches of the forest pines limed, creaking, swollen with the fall.... See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.
Fittingly, perhaps, a former researcher with expertise in snowstorms is taking the reins of the U.S. National Weather Service NWSS) just as a major blizzard bears down on New England.
