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.
Yes, MM, I pretty much meant the management of the operation, not the guy actually in the truck doing the plowing.
This video is so stupid. This exact thing happened to my parents last year, the city paid to fix the car.
If John Lindsay could be blamed for the failures in cleaning up the 1969 “lindsay”blizzard the present fiasco can as justly be labeled the “Bloomberg” blizzard (which, in any case, has a more euphonious sound).
Come on, Dave, I think that’s unfair. Sanit guys have been in charge of snow removal forever. It makes sense to use large heavy garbage trucks as snowplows, and then they have the salt spreaders come by afterwards. I think they do an excellent job, but they can’t do their jobs if management doesn’t do the planning correctly. I don’t blame the sanitation workers for the lack of plowing, it’s not like they are just lone wolves out there looking for streets to plow, they are ordered to do what they do by supervisors who are given orders by upper management.
I’m sure you’d like to turn this into another anti-union rant, but I’d be turning my ire towards management, college educated bean-counters, and the mayor’s office. The guys in the trucks, who have been working non-stop, are the good guys here.
Did anyone get the license plate number of that tow truck? A tow truck destroyed my car years ago.. they didn’t report it as towed for 1 month, and we thought it was stolen. When we finally found the car it was a day before the insurance company cut me a check for it being stolen. When we found it at Knight’s Towing in Williamsburg, both sides were dented in, all 4 tires were flat and my mirror was knocked off.
I took them to small claims court and 2 years later, received $2,500 in damages after having to fight them in court.. me and my dad vs 3 lawyers.
What a mess!
Are the Dept of Sanitation workers really any good at snowplowing/snow removal or just garbage pickup?? i think it’s a fair question.
I don’t know who’s to blame but certainly the clearing after this storm has been much poorer than any other I’ve experienced in the city in well over 40 years.
It’s definitely Brooklyn’s Katrina. It’s Brooklyn’s 9/11.
(and re: the vid, while it looks like the guy is doing a pretty good job beating up that car, a) Pulling giant things while sliding around in snow isn’t easy or predictable, b) Leaving the front-end-loader until it thaws there is also something deemed unacceptable by the public, It’s not like these guys do this (pulling front-end-loaders out of snowdrifts) very often. Looks more egregious than it is, imho, with most of the blame falling on the flapping-around FEL operator.)