The official my street is still not plowed/transit update thread

problem with them plows are like city buses. when you see one there are like 3 behind that one on the side street. kinda lame.

That's just silly... No one said the Mayor caused the snowstorm. But it is the Mayor's responsibility to keep the city running, and to make sure that the necessary systems and assets are in place so that the city will keep running, in spite of torrential rains, lightening storms, or serious snowfall.

The Mayor had a reputation a a talented business executive, a technocrat who would get things done. This time he totally blew it.

Am I the only one who loves all this snow?

It's like a massive art installation that blanketed everything in sight in white. It makes the neighborhood look different, sound different, feel different. Sidewalks are flanked by walls of snow. Kids are building snow forts in the middle of the street.

Christo eat your heart out.

The one mistake Bloomberg made was not declaring a state of emergency and closing the roads to all traffic save emergency vehicles.... I so totally agree with this statement of what Bloomberg's mistake was!

Some idiot wrote on my front glass doors in lipstick. (defacing my property)..CLEAR YOUR WALK!... You must be kidding! Yesterday we did a "narrow" path on the sidewalk but it was passable before 10 AM. This morning we had 4 guys (we paid them) completely clear the frontage. I am not a Rudy fan but I felt like I understood HIS problem for a moment! We did the best we could; we created safe passage... but perfect took an extra day!

Shoot me!

Probably would have happened if the A hole slogged down 9th street again and they were not satisfied with out shoveling job.

Clearly, the gov saw the weather forecast and said, it's the holidays - they can just wait till the warm front comes at the end of the week to get rid of the snow via meltage

As of 1:34 am Thursday morning, less than half of the blocks in Bed Stuy have been plowed, Nostrand is barely plowed, running one tiny lane at like 2 mph, no B44 bus through here, impossible to call a cab, very difficult to even walk anywhere. On my block there are 2 little stuck buried cars, but then other blocks I just cannot see why they didnt plow. No mail, packages, deliveries, taxis, nothing. I have missed 2 days of work and cancelled everything else for the rest of the year. I will trudge to very local markets to get stuff for New Years meal, but wine is out of the question as I cant get to it, it cant get to me and it is not around here.

Union slow down is the reason for the slow snow removal. Thanks.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sanit_filthy_snow_slow_mo_qH57MZwC53QKOJlekSSDJK

Some of us do not have the Luxury of being able to stay home, be healthy and not need to visit doctors/hospitals, not have to travel to work, be wealthy enough that a week off is not a big deal, or be Stranded away from home with cancelled flights for 4 days now -stuck just trying to get back home to NYC.

i suspected as much, like i said in many other post, i live pretty close by the one of their depots. in the past they were normally out and about during the snow. but this time they super delay till we got this mess.

it should be illegal for public servants to strike against the public.

it should be illegal for public servants to strike against the public.

It is. Its called the Taylor Law and there are very steep fines and penalties against the unions involved if an illegal job action can be proven including decertification of the union. However, I'll bet dollars to donuts they have a hard time proving that there was a concerted job action, so no penalties will end up being assessed in this case.

Aquaman and et al, I agree.

However, my thoughts were more along the lines of:

If people (including the city) are this unprepared for a minor emergency, what will a real emergency look like?

Think about it. In this snow adventure:

-Very few people lost power.

-Many people were out of town, lessening the stress on the city.

-There was nothing that caused lots of injuries or deaths (like a earthquake, civil disturbance or terrorist event would).

Yet, many were unprepared:

-Some lacked basic items like canned goods in their pantry.

-Some ran out of medications.

-Few had a reserve supply of water

-Few had flashlights.

-Few had a battery powered radio.

-Few had a wool blanket to get them thru a period in which their building might not have heat as a result of a electricity failure.

While the city could have done much better in this instance, there may be an instance when the resources of the city are completely overwhelmed.

....there are a lot of things people can do to be more self sufficient, and allow the resources of the city to be available to those who truly need need them: The disabled. The old. The absolutely broke.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/get_prepared/ready.shtml

If people (including the city) are this unprepared for a minor emergency, what will a real emergency look like?

We have seen major emergencies, September 11th and the blackout come to mind, and the city handled those pretty well, I think. So I don’t see the incompetency exhibited during this blizzard as a sign of overall incompetency. I think they just dropped the ball and I also suspect that maybe people were on vacation and either couldn’t get back or didn’t want to.

I wouldn’t be completely shocked if it was an intentional work slowdown, but it just doesn’t make sense to stage a secret protest. Protests are supposed to draw attention to an issue.

I don’t know where these allegations of a work slowdown first came from, but it really put the sanitation folks in a bad spot. Now they either have to admit it was intentional (if it was) and risk the ire of the public, or deny it, in which case they come across as just being incompetent, lazy boobs.

Regardless, I feel pretty confident that they’ll be more on the ball the next time we get a big storm. That said, they still need a good bollocking for the crap job they did. That's how you make sure people don't screw up twice in a row.

I don't know about a disaster. But next time they're calling for a 10" or more, I expect to see snow plows out before it stops snowing.

As for the public, who knows how we will respond. We're supposedly just a bunch of crazy jackals. But then again the public always seems to react much better than the movies expect us to. They always have us turning on each other and beating each other over the head with bats.

On September 11th I was surprised by how well people reacted. Thousands of people orderly, and somberly, walking from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Strangers handing out bottled water, people looking for places to give blood.

So the public can rise to the occasion - though I hope I never have to find out again. But at the same time, I was also in London when Diana died, and everyone just went ape shit. It was pretty creepy.

Granted, we haven't run around killing each other, but I have been very disappointed in how the public responded to this.

cool video of the storm by a pro