As plows neared completion of a first pass through all city streets, dispatchers faced a new complaint Tuesday: My driveway is full of snow.
The city began to get calls Tuesday from people who had plowed out their driveways, only to see them filled back with snow by the city’s removal crews. Chief Administrative Officer Rob Smuts said some piling up is inevitable because plows need momentum to get through the streets.
Smuts said residents are going to have to take care of an average pile — three feet or so — themselves. But in the rare case of, say, an 8‑foot wall dumped by a payloader, Smut suggested calling the city at 203 – 946-8221 and “we’ll see what we can do.”
Mayor John DeStefano said the new goal is to have downtown open Wednesday and public schools open Thursday.
Residents demanded faster and quicker plowing.
Now they demand more careful plowing from guys who didn't work 24 hour shifts and who were hopping out of payloaders to take care of individual piles and cars that had been plowed in.
At some point, I really think people have to stop monday morning quarterbacking this one in the middle of the disaster.
Can we all agree to keep quiet about kvetching and focus on the proactive and possible? We can critique and tear apart the city after the job is done.
I assure you that the 1000 people who woke up wearing cranky pants today and flooded the city with irate yelling phone calls did not help anything get done any quicker.