Snow Emergency

Well, in case you haven't looked out your window yet, the world outside is getting very white again. Our friends at the National Weather Service are forecasting anywhere between 12 and 16 inches of snow for our area. Having said that, Mayor Duignam declared a snow emergency yesterday (2/9/2010) evening, beginning at 9PM. That means that once again, vehicles are prohibited from parking on streets designated as Snow Emergency Routes.

Please - give the road crew a break - and let them do their job and keep the roads clear for us. I had the opportunity to ride with Frank Young last week, took some pictures and will post them here later today. Let me tell you this - it's not as easy as you would think.

If you're traveling today, be safe.

Bread and Milk Alert (oh, and please move your car)

It's looking like a true Bread and Milk Alert is in full force. Our friends at AccuWeather and the National Weather Service are predicting a measurable snowfall tomorrow into Sunday.

As a friendly reminder, please make sure that you remove your cars from the Snow Emergency Routes to allow our road crew to do their job and clear the snow.

Send me your snow photos. I'll share them here.

Be safe!

Snow Routes - A Friendly Reminder

Now that it's snowing, I thought I'd take this opportunity to remind everyone who lives on any of the Snow Emergency Routes in the Borough to please make sure that you move your cars to a driveway/garage (if you have one), or to one of the side streets. This will make Frank's job a heck of a lot easier - imagine wrangling that big truck with a plow attached to it down the street trying not to hit the cars. Once the snow has stopped and the streets have been plowed curb to curb, you can put your cars back and then Frank can take care of the side streets.

A big thank you to everyone in advance for your help.

Snow?

How apropos is the "Snowplowing" post below - when I stumbled on this image courtesy of our friends at AccuWeather.

Now - we haven't had "the big one" yet this winter. Could this be our last chance? I guess we should just stay tuned.

Snowplowing

A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to ride along with our Road Foreman, Frank Young in our nice shiny new red truck on a snowplow run.

Let me tell you - I now have a totally different perspective for what it takes to plow our roads and keep them safe for us to travel. Thank you Frank for allowing me to ride along with you, and for the great job that you and Zach (Albert) do to keep the roads clear for us.

Having had this experience, I now understand the importance of moving our cars off the street so that he has enough room to get by with the plow. Whenever it snows, all of us in the 600 block of Broad Street automatically move our cars to the side streets, or, if we're fortunate enough, we put them in our garages. This is always done - we don't wait for a "snow emergency" to be declared. I assumed (shame on me) that the rest of us did the same thing. I was disappointed to learn, however, that was not the case. I know it's inconvenient - we all like having our cars parked in front of our houses, but . . . if everyone moved their cars, Frank (and / or Zach) would be able to clear the roads from curb to curb, and we would all wind up better off in the end - no mounds of snow in the middle of the road, plowed in cars, etc.

So, I'm asking you - when it snows, if possible, please remove your cars from the main streets (Main, Broad, High) - and for those of you in North Tatamy, please park in your driveways so that the roads can be cleared. The next day, you can move your cars from the side streets, and they will be cleared as well. Let's all work together - it will benefit all of us in the end.

Thanks for "listening". Have a great day!