It Seems Everyone is Still Pissed About the Snow!
No doubt you’ve already seen the vid above, and it’s likely you’ve experienced in real life the hassles and, perhaps, destruction the blizzard caused. So the questions coming out of local blogs as well as the papers are: 1. Is this a case of straight-up class warfare, wherein Manhattan has been favored in terms of…
No doubt you’ve already seen the vid above, and it’s likely you’ve experienced in real life the hassles and, perhaps, destruction the blizzard caused. So the questions coming out of local blogs as well as the papers are: 1. Is this a case of straight-up class warfare, wherein Manhattan has been favored in terms of snow removal at the expense of outer boroughs such as Brooklyn? 2. Even if that’s true, isn’t that more or less business as usual? 3. At the most extreme end of the spectrum, can deaths be attributed to the fact that the city appears to have been unprepared for the blizzard? 4. And, finally, does Mayor Bloomberg deserve the bulk of the blame if one considers the city’s response lacking? Several City Councilpeople are definitely jumping on this bandwagon.
Yeah, but bxgrl, you have to admit that there is a possibility that the borough chiefs sat on their hands or threw up their hands and said to the central office, fine, do it your way, or something to that effect. In any event, I trust it will all come out in the hearings or the media.
Give reason its due, I shoveled 4 or 5 times on Sunday but the final time – around 10:30 – the wind was causing drifts so quickly that digging was obliterated in 5 minutes – even a foot deep channel from front door to pavement disappeared. The storm last Feb. was much easier to stay ahead of.
So plows that night would’ve been futile. It was the Monday morning aftermath that was slow.
if the city really wanted to make some $$$ they would be out there ticketing construction sites that haven’t shoveled the sidewalks
I’m gonna agree with the clusterf*ck but I think Manhattan was probably high-handed with the other borough chiefs now demoted. So they issued orders as they saw fit- which means “Gawd! We’;ve got to clean up Times Square for New Year’s Eve!!Oh….and clean up the “lesser borough” would you? The little people need help.”
The clean up has been pathetically slow, but a lot of that really does seem to be the result of lack of notice. The storm warnings weren’t posted until late Saturday evening, and even Sunday morning’s papers were predicting less than 10″. Meanwhile, Philly was supposed to get 20″ or more, so they cancelled the football game Sunday evening. As it turned out, Philly got our snow and we go theirs.
As for declaring a state of emergency, how many of the morons who abandoned their cars in the middle of the street would have stayed home had a state of emergency been declared?
And while everyone is piling on the City for its response, how come no one is beating up the MTA? It’s taken them just as long to get the subways running.
Either both the City and MTA are incompetent, or this really was a different storm.
OK, maybe both.
I’m gonna go ahead and guess that the borough chiefs were pissed at the centralization, and Manhattan was overwhelmed…and it was a clusterf*ck all around.
Ishtar- we have an imperial mayor and his management team takes their lead from him. They deign to notice us and tell us what we can do. I know a lot of sanit guys- trust me when I tell you, they were screaming. These guys have years of experience, they know what to do. They got no leadership from Manhattan.
what amazes me is the response by (my) building staff.
S-L-O-W!
Monday morning the front of our building wasn’t shoveled. What if people needed to get somewhere? By 3pm, they started working on creating a narrow pathway for someone with one leg.
Yesterday, they widened the path so you can walk.
Every time, I went down to marvel at the snow I saw the Super and his other half standing with shovels in one hand and a beer in the other. I guess booze is a requirement for snow removal.
I shouldn’t have given them the bonus for Xmas but waited till the new year. I want my $ back and a deduction from my maintenance.
And quite frankly, it doesn’t matter where the command center is. Why weren’t the head of sanitation in Brooklyn, Queens, SI and the Bronx making noise and informing Manhattan?