Front page of the Metro+State section today shows a picture of a guy in Fountain Square who’s upset that there hasn’t been a plow down his street.
Two observations:
1) With all those cars parked on both sides of the street, what city in its right mind would risk the liability for damage by running a plow down between them?
2) And even if the city wanted to risk the liability, where would all the snow go? Right on top of the vehicles…thus pissing our upset resident off even more.
If you want your street plowed, you might want to consider removing the obstacles.
(Seems like there used to be an ordinance to the effect that you had to get your vehicles off the street when snow threatened — specifically so that the plows could get through. Possibly that was only invoked when the mayor declared a snow emergency — which one kind of would think 12.5″ of snow is. On the other hand, since the NWS said it was only going to be 3″-5″, I’m sure everyone was caught completely off guard. But that still doesn’t excuse the idiocy involved above.)
UPDATE: The idiocy just keeps on rolling. From “Let It Out” today:
Snow falls every year, yet we can’t seem to figure out how to get the proper number of plows on the road.
As noted above, we weren’t expecting 12.5″, we were expecting 3 to 5. And if you happened to read the paper the other day, you would have known that 12.5″ doesn’t happen here very often. So is it your opinion that we should have enough plows and personnel on hand for 12.5″ snows every winter, even though we don’t have that kind of snow every winter? Moron.
Issuing parking tickets during a snowstorm is just not right.
It is if you’re parked on a snow emergency route. Idiot.
I do agree 100% with this guy, though:
If you can’t clean the snow off your car, don’t drive it.
Amen.