Snow removal last night

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

I am going to catch a lot of flak for this, but I actually wanted to (gasp!) thank the City of Somerville for their relatively good work at clearing most of the roads last night.

I observed the roads in Somerville to be much clearer than the roads just across the border in Cambridge, in particular Mass Ave.

This isn't a knock on Cambridge, but from the warmth of my house, I was able to observe the DPW trucks making repeated rounds last evening keeping the roads open in case they were needed.

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[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i've driven home behind plows before. i did figure the dpw was probably waiting for the snow to taper off, tho, so they wouldn't have to go out and plow again.

[narya.livejournal.com]

I went home early and the plows went down my street three times between 2pm and 5:30pm. By 6:30, you could barely tell that they had been there at all, a couple of people were stuck in snowbanks and my neighbors were wondering why the plows hadn't come yet. Even though I had seen them come by several times, it was coming down so fast that you couldn't really tell.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

When I went out to shovel my driveway and sidewalk halfway through to get a head start.

I felt like I was trying to bail out the Titanic with a teaspoon.

By the time I was done, I couldn't tell I'd even done anything. Rgh.

Behind the plow is the best place to be

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mattt/]

Could be. It is less efficient to plow twice.

On the other hand, they do need to keep the roads as open as possible.

My guess is that it was just snowing too fast, so even though they were out, we didn;t see any benefit until later, and therefore we assume that they were more active then, when in reality, it was the snowfall rate that changed, not the rate of plowing.