That's precisely what happened here. It was the first substantial fall, and all the weather outlets were predicting some snow with a change to rain, so the public officials out on the Island did NOTHING: no salt, no warnings, nothing. So when the rain didn't come and the temperature dropped to the teens (F), people in cars drove on roads that were essentially ice sheets like everything was hunky-dorey...and it would have been if some rock salt had been laid down, but nope. The number of calls we got were astounding! One nurse after another calling in to say they'd be late. We made a game of it after a while. And then, accident here, accident there, highways cut off. Ridiculous. And the buses out on the Island are an utter joke: if it rains hard you're guaranteed to be late by at least half an hour. NYC is so much better prepared.