F****** over by Snowmageddon 2010? Me too.

YankeeFan · Jan 1, 2015

JackReacher said:

Well, that's about the dumbest thing ever. Unless I'm taking someone to the hospital.
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And, it makes it a lot tougher for the people still trying to drive.

Flying Headbutt · Jan 27, 2011

Hundreds of people around DC and Baltimore just up and left their cars in the middle of the road. On the beltway, on I-95, on other state roads. Just left them. A State Police spokesman said he wanted to know where they went, since it's not like there were hotels near all these cars. Just walked away. I saw it for myself overnight. I remain flabbergasted.

Cosmo · Jan 27, 2011

Good story in the WaPost about this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/26/AR2011012608980.html?sid=ST2011012603981

We got lucky down here in Central Va. Temps stayed in the mid-30s all day so we got maybe an inch of snow but a lot of slush and ice. We would have had a foot had it been cold enough yesterday afternoon. I can't remember the last time it's rained so hard down here for hours at a time.

Flying Headbutt · Jan 27, 2011

I drove on one of those roads mentioned, and talked with others who were on other roads. Insanity.

JackReacher · Jan 27, 2011

Flying Headbutt said:

Hundreds of people around DC and Baltimore just up and left their cars in the middle of the road. On the beltway, on I-95, on other state roads. Just left them. A State Police spokesman said he wanted to know where they went, since it's not like there were hotels near all these cars. Just walked away. I saw it for myself overnight. I remain flabbergasted.
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They deserve to have their cars stolen and smashed into little bits, and then have their insurance agent laugh in their faces.

Idiots.

spnited · Jan 27, 2011

15 inches over night in North Jersey. Drove about 35 miles home from work into the teeth of it, mostly on Interstate, took about an hour and 20 minutes.
Problem was getting into the driveway with two feet of snow plowed into a pile. That was not pretty.

finishthehat · Jan 27, 2011

It is impossible to overstate how much I do not miss shoveling snow.

micropolitan guy · Jan 27, 2011

My brother just send me a photo of the snow at his house (Putnam Co., N.Y). Do not miss that at all, even with 3-4 months of winter rain/grey sky where I live.

The Big Ragu · Jan 27, 2011

Foot and a half more in New York.

For all those who were concerned, I managed to hang onto my pants this time. Although I just put the suit bottoms on, rather than trying to carry them and change.

YankeeFan · Jun 3, 2011

Late last December, a councilman from Queens inflamed the frustrations of many New Yorkers upset with the pace of snow removal after a blizzard when he claimed to have evidence that city sanitation workers had intentionally slowed the cleanup.

The councilman, Daniel J. Halloran, became something of a national news celebrity for a more than week. Commentators said his evidence showed how public employee unions were harming America.

But on Friday, a report by the city’s Department of Investigation said that investigators, after interviewing more than 150 witnesses and reviewing video from surveillance cameras and from angry residents, had found no evidence of an organized slowdown. In fact, the report found, Mr. Halloran had no evidence for his accusation, and his account of conversations with two workers differed sharply from what the workers told investigators.

“In toto,” the report said, “Mr. Halloran’s information about city employee statements contributed no actual evidence about a possible slowdown.”

The report did find fault with elements of the city’s response to the Dec. 26 snowstorm, which left 20 inches of snow in Central Park and paralyzed the city for days. A half-dozen trucks, among hundreds reviewed, were inexplicably idle, or moving through snowbound streets with their plows raised for no apparent reason. Some workers remained with stuck vehicles for as long as 12 hours, investigators found. About 44 percent of the snow chains on trucks broke during the cleanup.

And a few workers were photographed buying beer or coffee when they were supposed to be cleaning the streets. The investigators said those workers were doing so only while stuck with broken-down equipment, and not as part of a labor slowdown, but the workers caught drinking now face disciplinary charges.

The city also made choices that might have slowed the cleanup. A decision to stop salting roads as the snowfall warnings increased was controversial within the Sanitation Department. And because the city elected not to declare a snow emergency, many drivers became stuck in roadways, and their cars impeded the cleanup.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/nyregion/no-slowdown-in-blizzard-cleanup-nyc-report-says.html?hp
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