-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 13 Feb 14  20:53:50 <=-

 >> Ithaca has this gigantic scraper that works really well to clear the
 >> roads, but their problem is they wait pretty much until it stops
 >> snowing before they start clearing the roads.. Makes sense I guess,
 >> but it can be a PITA.
 > It probably eats enough fuel to make it impractical to make too many
 > runs per storm... and is designed to be efficient at moving large
 > amounts of snow at a time... :)  But if that's all they use, yeah...
 > that can be a PITA..  :)

 JK> Sure is.. I cancelled a doc. apt. today in Binghamton becase I just
 JK> didn't feel like the hassle :) 

Can't say as I blame you for cancelling... that's a bit of a hike in
good weather, let alone foul...  

 JK> But I agreee that must be their
 JK> reasoning - would not pay to run that gigantic thing real often :) 
 JK> In Windsor there were just county trucks with your normal sized
 JK> snow-plow; we haven't had that many snow storms of "note" so I'm
 JK> having trouble remembering how often Windsor was plowed :) 

Here there are just the normal sized trucks with plows, but lots of
them... and in a bad storm, they often call in the snowplow contractors
to help clear the city streets while they concentrate on the major
highways... haven't seen any of that this year, though...  Things have
been managable with just the city/county plows...

 JK> Luckily we only go out maybe once a week or so for food shopping :)
 JK> When we run out of milk or bread we run to Dandy-Mart down the
 JK> street, place is handy now and then  

You don't even have to clean off the car for that... just walk down
there... at least Ron or Matt can...  ;)

 JK> Today, I'm not sure how much we got but it seems like a lot... it
 JK> started around 8am, much earlier than predicted around here, and
 JK> continued all day. 

You got a lot more than us, then...  We got maybe 3" or so... and not
until later in the day...  nothing last night, just some flurries in the
air so far today...  :)

ttyl          neb

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