A Let them Eat Cake moment NYC Marathon ??/

[August]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I think I heard somewhere that the city was gearing up for some marathon event even whilst some local people were still in need of relief supplies

Yeah the New York city marathon, one of the larger running events in the country. People are mad that police and firefighters are being pulled away from recovery efforts in order to cover the event instead.

It probably should have been rescheduled to a later date but I understand that's not all that easy for such a large event.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by August

Yeah the New York city marathon, one of the larger running events in the country. People are mad that police and firefighters are being pulled away from recovery efforts in order to cover the event instead.

It probably should have been rescheduled to a later date but I understand that's not all that easy for such a large event.

Don't/shouldn't events like this have a "disaster-related cancellation" contingency of some sort? I mean, if something like this was happening during 9/11, I'm sure they would've got everyone off the track pronto. The city should probably step in at this point and just put the brakes on.

[BossMark]

Shouldn't it have been postponed this year, or even better still cancelled?.