On Dec 28, 3:35 pm, yetanotherBob > wrote:


>
> I'm just surprised that Denver, of all places, was as floored by this
> storm as it seems they were. I would have thought three feet of snow
> was a common thing out there, a just-shake-it-off and get on with your
> business kind of thing.


It reminds me a lot of the blizzard of ''78 in New England. It came on
fast and lasted 36 hours. People in both storms were abandoning their
cars on the higway because the snow was so deep only the largest 4WDs
were able to get through. A bobcat that was trying to clear our street
had to put on chains because ther was just no traction.


> I remember back when Chicagoans almost burned the Mayor at the stake
> when she screwed up the city's response to an even more severe storm.
> Any of that kind of ire brewing in Denver?


Yes, along political lines. Mayor Hickenlooper (yes, that's his name)
has been criticized because he didn't clear every flake off of every
street within 2 hours of the storm stopping. He said "The residential
streets have been plowed" when some of them hadn't, but he was just
repeating what the Public Works people told him. There are hundreds of
miles of streets and...40 plows.

There's no way that voters would approve of buying enough plows to take
care of monster blizzards which happen less than once a year. People
need to take responsibility for staying home and keeping their cars off
the streets to avoid accidents and to let the plows have access.

We weren't here yet, but after the Christmas Blizzard of '82 the former
mayor, McNichols, was laughed out of office when he suggested a
solution was to put plows on garbage trucks.

There's no way to please anyone under these conditions. Mother Nature
always has the last laugh.