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Yeah, I teach elementary school, and a week and a half after our first snow storm, the road to the school still isn’t properly plowed. Causing some serious headaches for parents and bus drivers.
threaten to call the newspaper.
It makes sense though. If you get a lot of snow it’s probably falling pretty heavily and the plows will be spending most of their time plowing and replowing the main roads.
A fluff of powder? Plows can do everything once and get to the back streets almost immediately. Even in my snowy part of Canada sidestreets don’t get plowed until after it stops falling, and they don’t even bother if there’s less than three inches.
On a related note though I do notice a similar correlation for when they remove the snowbanks. You don’t have to even try to step over them and there’s the crew with the dumptrucks and giant snowblower yet they can be eight feet wide so the road barely fits a car anymore, and too tall to see over, and they’re there until April.
I feel bad for the US east coast though. They just don’t have the ability or equipment to handle that much snow.
thanks for interjecting some logic. Hopefully it won’t be lost on most.
I dunno, I think this graph actually charts the probability that the snowplow will get stuck somewhere due to snow. Once you go past 1 inch man…. it’s murder out there.
That does make sense, but doesn’t explain why snowplow drivers won’t go down a street until after everyone has shoveled their driveways
I live on the east coast and I was lucky in that my street was plowed in 2 or 3 days but in some cities they weren’t plowed for weeks
Move out of the sticks.
…or a city that can’t handle that much snow? I live in DC and this graph still applies. I’d say it’s safe to say I don’t live in the sticks.
Yeah, same. I live in Philly and this is exactly what goes on. My street still isn’t plowed…. actually most streets were never plowed and are now covered in 5″ of solid ice!
When I lived “in the sticks”, the farmers would get together and help each other plow out because most had stock to feed. You must be talking “suburbia”.
6-9 hehehehehehehehe.
Yup. I was waiting for someone with a dirty mind to pick up on that. Lo and behold, I wasn’t disappointed.
I think that they wouldn’t clean the road in a white out blizzard because snowblowers can’t handle everything.
That and there has to be some sort of liability issue with the city sending its employees into extremely hazardous conditions.
when theres 1-3″ the plow people are like “yay we get to do our job” when theres 3-6″ they’re like “what the heck, we might as well do it” with 6-9″ they’re like “ach fine we’ll get fired if we dont” 12″ or more “i’ll quit if you make me do that, seriously, jkjk i’ll do it when it dies down (A.K.A never)” crazy white out blizzard “look, I can’t even go to my job to get the plow, and you expect me to plow your f***in street?” Thats why this graph is so true.
I live in one of the snowiest towns in Colorado, and boy is this true. If we get a little snow, you’re dodging plows all morning. If we get a lot of snow, you won’t see a plow for a while.
Yeah, we all know there’s a reason for this (it takes a lot longer for them to plow when there’s a lot of snow), but that doesn’t make it any less true.
Of course its not gonna be plowed! Its white-out conditions! How would they plow it if they couldn’t see?
WOW amazing, so you’re saying it takes longer for workers to plow lots of snow and it takes less time to plow less snow,
you sir are a genius observer of the human condition
Or, in England: “We’re not grittin half the roads nemore cos we’z runnin out of grit! But u still betta make it to work or u get no moniez! GL driving w/o a lorry crashin on u LOLZ!!12!!!”
So said a Council spokesperson. They really need to learn to write in standard english for official statements, in my opinion.
LoL, It’s not so much a matter of them not doing you’re road because they don’t want to. You try driving a piece of machinery thats 10 feet wide down a city street with cars on both sides without either destroying private property or hitting someone. As for the amounts of snow… I live in North Dakota, our streets get plowed even when we get 30+ inches all the time so I don’t know maybe employ someone that knows what they’re doing.