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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Thanks! It wouldn't have been so bad, but apparently our road crews are taking to heart the old saying, "Shoveling the walk while it's still snowing is like cleaning the house while the kids are still growing!" Only substitute "plowing the roads". So a lot of wet, heavy snow, and it's just hovering at freezing, so everytime someone drives through, instead of packing it down, it churns it up. I think it's supposed to keep it up overnight...glad I don't work tomorrow. Chris does, but he has a 4 wheel drive Blazer and thinks weather like this is FUN to drive in!
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Well, apparently here the philosophy is, "why clear the roads when it will get above freezing someday in the future?" This is day 9 after the big storm, and tonight I saw a bulldozer and a bobcat working over at the high school after dark trying to get the area for bus pickups cleared. DAY 9!!! And one of the lead news stories tonight was about my city (I'm a bit south of Atlanta) and all the fingerpointing going on between the mayor and the city manager. I don't know who's to blame, but the streets here didn't even get sanded or salted, let alone cleared. It was ridiculous! And I have to take a little personal responsibility myself -- if I had gotten over to my mom's and cleared her walk and driveway right after the snow fell (although that would have been DURING the freezing rain LOL), it wouldn't have frozen into that almost-impossible-to-chip mess that we dealt with all week. Oh well, live and learn!