NYC Storm clean-up.

JayinNY · Jan 4, 2011

I brought my friend and his son some hay today, and asked him how his son and year old grand son were, he said his son just got back from the city, He caught me off gaurd??, then he said he went down there with 2 930 cat front end loaders and 2 dump trucks to work with the snow removal! Last March he went to Baltimore too.

Dave in GA · Jan 4, 2011

Why bother moving all that snow around? It will eventually melt.

CLTX · Jan 4, 2011

The snow in many places will not melt until spring. The cities run out of room to push or stack it. This is quite a common problem in cities in the northern latitudes, or high altitude areas. It has to be hauled out of the city to leave room for the next heavy snowfall. It"s something us southerners never even think about until we experience it firsthand. I spent the better part of a month in late December and early January of 1995-96 in Steamboat Springs, CO. Snow had been pushed into many parking areas and piled in the middle of the street up to five feet. I left just ahead of a 30 inch snowfall, so it had to be a problem then. I know that people extended their radio antennas and/or attached a pole with a flag so that they could be seen approaching an intersection. C. L.

mkirsch · Jan 4, 2011

Is anybody else amazed at the amount of criticism that the poor mayor is getting over that storm?

NYC has had major snow storms a sum total of 7 times in the last 100 years... How can you be "prepared" for something that happens randomly once every 15 years?

If they had enough equipment and manpower to handle that storm sitting around doing nothing the 14 years, 364 days it's not needed, people would be complaining about all the money they're wasting!

old popper · Jan 4, 2011

Come on up, when you get tired of wading around in it, you will understand the need for moving it.

DaveK(IN) · Jan 4, 2011

I grew up there and this is an unusual snow amount. But, in Manhatten they have to drive a Maximum of 8 blocks to dump it in the river(s). It will not surprise me if the labor slowdowns turn out to be true. That"s one reason I moved to the country 50 years ago. (SW Indiana)

Adirondack case guy · Jan 4, 2011

I wonder how much junk/garbage buried in snow banks got loaded and dumped in the river/s not making it to a barge and getting dumped further out to sea.

RayP(MI) · Jan 4, 2011

Couple years ago, we lost the use of our 4wd PU and plow for a month or so. Had the tractor and back blade. We got in real trouble, no where to push it, couldn't push it back further. Couldn't push it up any higher. Finally got truck back, but was bordering on having to hire a front end loader. I can understand the problems in New York. No place to push it back. Got to physically remove it and haul it off. And then there are all the marooned vehicles in the way.

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