While winter hell unleashed its fury on New York City Thursday, NBC weatherman Al Roker unleashed his fury on Mayor Bill de Blasio for not closing schools.
Roker, who is in Sochi covering the Olympics, fired off a series of tweets blasting the “lack of common sense,” “goofball policy” of the mayor for making kids attend school during a blizzard, and then offered an un-Roker-like non-weather related prediction:
I knew this am @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCSchools would close schools. Talk about a bad prediction. Long range DiBlasio forecast: 1 term
— Al Roker (@alroker) February 13, 2014
@BillseBlasio Gov. Cuomo declaring state of emergency for the Mid-Hudson, New York City, and L.I. as a Nor’Easter storm continues affect NY — Al Roker (@alroker) February 13, 2014
And how about all the parents and caregivers who have to scramble to get their kids home? Is there no one there with any common sense? — Al Roker (@alroker) February 13, 2014
So now my daughter’s NYC public school is being let out early. @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCSchools Is it worth putting kids’ safety at risk?
— Al Roker (@alroker) February 13, 2014
Why are schools all around NYC closed? It’s going to take some kid or kids getting hurt before this goofball policy gets changed
— Al Roker (@alroker) February 13, 2014
De Blasio responded directly to Roker during a press conference Thursday, saying that while he respects Roker, “it’s a different thing to run a city than to give the weather on TV.” De Blasio then attempted to place blame on the National Weather Service, who he said “affirmed to us on the call before we came out to you, that this went faster and heavier than their projections last night.”
Roker was quick on the keyboard to give his answer to that:
Mr. Mayor, I could never run NYC, but I know when it’s time to keep kids home from school
— Al Roker (@alroker) February 13, 2014
How dare @NYCMayorsOffice @NYCSchools throw NWS under the school bus. Forecast was on time and on the money
— Al Roker (@alroker) February 13, 2014
Thursday’s war of words garnered so much national attention that on Friday, Roker addressed his criticism of the mayor on “The TODAY Show” saying that he stands by all he said, with the exception of the “testy” tweet about de Blasio serving only one term.
Watch the segment via “The TODAY Show”
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