FLASHBACK: Mayor Bloomberg’s Disastrous Failure on Hurricane Sandy.

Weather blogger Brendan Loy, who sounded the alarm regarding the devastation that accompanied Hurricane Katrina in 2005 days ahead of government and most media, faults New York’s Mayor Bloomberg for waiting too long to order evacuations and for underplaying the extent of the danger. He wrote the following: “Waiting until almost noon on the day before the storm, mere hours before the subways closed, to order an evacuation of the most vulnerable low-lying areas in New York City (‘Zone A’), was a huge mistake, not just in retrospect, but at the time, as I wrote then.” By contrast, “Gov. Christie was pretty emphatic in taking Sandy seriously and urging others to do so. He criticized the mayor of Atlantic City for being less so.”

Not exactly presidential material, Mike.