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.
What is shocking to me is the lack of sidewalk snow removal.. If the city would ticket residences and businesses, people would be quicker to clean up the sidewalks..
Just a walk around Fort Greene yesterday it was shocking to see restaurants like Sushi D, or Cellars, or businesses along Dekalb that had yet to clear their sidewalks.. This is three days after the storm..
Then you have the large corner lot on Lafayette and Washinton outside the G train that has yet to shovel.. How many hundred people walk by their house in a day?
A simple ticket would most likely stop future problems.
LOLOLOL @daveinbedstuy….The Snow is Too Damn High.
EPIIC FAIL Mr Bloomberg!!!!!
I’m with Hairy. I was here for Feb. 2010, and our street was plowed during and after.
Everybody should remember that this was NOT the first blizzard of calendar 2010. The first blizzard was in February 2010, and more snow fell during that one than during this one.
In February 2010, there were multiple snowplows on my block as the snow was first coming down, and our street was dug out by the middle of the next day.
It’s December 2010, and our street hasn’t seen a snowplow yet.
What does that tell you?
Our street was plowed twice Saturday evening but then not again so in effect not plowed at all. There is a city bus that has been stuck in the middle of the street for days.
Pathetic.
Totally unacceptable.
Not because I care if my street is plowed or not, but emergency vehicles need to be able to get around the city.
My brother is a Sanitation worker and he was on call to come in since Friday, 12/24. He was called in and on the job by 7a on Sunday morning, and it was just beginning to flurry when I woke around 9a that morning. I do think this has a lot to do with a “perfect storm” of conditions:
I think the lack of accurate weather forecasting, the holiday week (lower staff levels) and hedging bets towards the budget and a low-activity week have all come into play. In addition, this storm fell and accumulated fast; Sanitation could barely address primary roads before they needed another pass. Then the cars began getting stuck, so they couldn’t get through themselves any longer.
As a born and raised Brooklynite, I agree that we’ve seen quicker responses in recent storms, but I also remember beyond the past ten years, and I think this might be a taste of our re-calibrated reality, where we don’t have the resources to get out ahead of possibilities and must deal with the outcomes. Certainly there will be lessons to learn from this, but the omnipresent one is that we aren’t more omniscient or omnipotent than Mother Nature.
Hi Hannible!
The city response has been horrible – but I dont get this video being such a big sensation. Could the CAT been pulled free, more gently – perhaps but a couple of dents on a single car made by a single tow driver is hardly an earth shattering issue.
THE SNOW IS TOO DAMN HIGH.