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I tried to go to Bay Ridge on the internet but my browser timed out.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/12/27/nyc-faced-with-tough-questions-about-blizzard-response/
Monday afternoon, there was a three-hour wait to get an ambulance to critical calls, like cardiac arrests and traumas, sources told CBS 2. In addition, lower priority EMS calls were said to have been held up for nearly 12 hours before an ambulance could get to the scene.
At one point there were 120 ambulances stuck in the snow, Kramer reported.
The combination of snow problems and the need to respond to health emergencies gave the FDNY about a 60 percent availability to respond to fires, sourced said.
A dramatic example of the chaos was what happened to a Queens’ woman suffering an asthmatic attack. Engine 289 got to her house and spent 10 hours with her waiting for an EMS ambulance to show up. They kept running out of oxygen, eventually using up 26 bottles. The woman was finally taken to Elmhurst Hospital when the 46 Battalion Chief arrived.
EMS and fire sources questioned why the city didn’t call a snow emergency to keep cars off streets, which would have made it easier for emergency vehicles and snow plows to get around.
BTW, the http://maps.google.com/ traffic feature has more or less accurate information about condition of the major streets.
DIBs- that’s awesome, frankly.
Dean still has a bus stuck on it and is unplowed for our block, though they got the bus behind it out yesterday sometime.
Seems like a lot of the difficulty was caused by stuck cars causing a backup, and folks getting swamped as they idled behind them. Certainly what happened to the bus(es) on our block.
bay ridge *sounds* like an awesome place.
I saw on Channel 2 news last night that the ambulance response time was terrible, and ambulances from NJ (I think) were coming here to help.
Gemini10, Of course I am kidding.
This is known as the Law of Unintended Consequences.
It is a trap that Liberals constantly fall into with their economic wonder programs.
donatella – I saw ambulance yesterday. It did not make a few blocks to the place so guys had to make it on foot. Also there are several people including myself hanging out yesterday and helped them to get out.
Probably this is different between Bayridge and Parkslope. Here people calm and help each other. In Parkslope they complain. “oh, why my street is not plowed for 24hours.”, “oh, why they started with Manhattan”, “Oh it is all Bloombergs’ fault”.
Hi JessiBaby: Six Degrees of Separation