{"id":661558,"date":"2010-02-11T07:38:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T12:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.71511"},"modified":"2010-02-11T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T17:21:15","slug":"the-snowstorm-was-a-huge-bust-in-northern-connecticut-hearings-meetings-rescheduled-at-state-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/661558","title":{"rendered":"The Snowstorm Was A Huge Bust In Northern Connecticut; Hearings, Meetings Rescheduled At State Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big winter snow storm turned out to be a huge bust.<\/p>\n<p>As such, the series of meetings and public hearings that were&nbsp;canceled at the state Capitol on Wednesday are all being rescheduled. A hearing on several agencies as part of Gov. M. Jodi Rell&#8217;s proposed $18.91 billion budget &#8211; including the allocations for the University of Connecticut and the UConn Health Center &#8211; has been rescheduled for February 19.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the meetings have been pushed back into next week because the state Capitol is closed on both Friday and Monday for state holidays.<\/p>\n<p>On Channel 3, the meteorologists admitted that the much-hyped storm was essentially a complete bust in the Hartford region. Depending on the location, the storm dumped between 2 and 6 inches in many towns in northern Connecticut. New York City, by contrast, got about 9 inches, and places like Baltimore got much more. Greenwich came in at 10 inches, and Fairfield got about 10.5 inches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Weather is an inexact science,&#8221; Channel 3&#8217;s Mark Dixon said on the air Wednesday. &#8220;This was a very difficult storm to forecast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologist Bruce DePrest was more direct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of those cases where we were just wrong,&#8221; he said on Channel 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big winter snow storm turned out to be a huge bust. As such, the series of meetings and public hearings that were&nbsp;canceled at the state Capitol on Wednesday are all being rescheduled. A hearing on several agencies as part of Gov. M. Jodi Rell&#8217;s proposed $18.91 billion budget &#8211; including the allocations for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2M6i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}