Blizzard 2015 Boston

[DFB]

Talk about mishaps from the snow about a week or so ago my ski bum contractor buddy's niece and her husband lost control of their pickup truck over icy road conditions coming down one of our wonderfully steep hillside streets.

They went across the street intersection at the bottom of the hill...into a repair shop parking lot up onto the plowed snowbank and thru the fence over the top of river's 15 ft high concrete flood control wall. Landed with the roof down in the snow at the bottom. All the water was on the opposite side of the control chute. Amazing neither one got hurt and fire rescue put a ladder down and they climbed up and out! :shocked:

 

[IslandTractor]

Our local pizzeria has been hit by two cars in the past week. One hit appeared to be by a car that tried to turn while going too fast and slid across the road into the corner of the building. The other however was a head on collision into the front door. No idea how that happened as the driver would need to make a 90 degree turn in the middle of a block in order to jump the curb and hit the building. Driver bolted but the license plate was left behind. Apparently it was a teenage girl who "was scared" so she left the scene at midnight. Obviously must have been a rich liberal.

 

[Garandman]

Talk about mishaps from the snow about a week or so ago my ski bum contractor buddy's niece and her husband lost control of their pickup truck over icy road conditions coming down one of our wonderfully steep hillside streets. //

Back when Atlanta had snow a couple winters ago, they mobilized their four salt trucks - and two of them crashed in the parking lot and were disabled.

So metro Atlanta (about the size of Massachusetts) had two plow trucks. I understand the county has expanded the fleet to nine and contractors have purchased salter/sander attachments for dump trucks.

An Army buddy moved to Kentucky and when they got some snow, he asked a neighbor what the county had for snow removal equipment. "The sun," she replied. :laughing:

Our local pizzeria has been hit by two cars in the past week. One hit appeared to be by a car that tried to turn while going too fast and slid across the road into the corner of the building. The other however was a head on collision into the front door. No idea how that happened as the driver would need to make a 90 degree turn in the middle of a block in order to jump the curb and hit the building. Driver bolted but the license plate was left behind. Apparently it was a teenage girl who "was scared" so she left the scene at midnight. Obviously must have been a rich liberal.

And here it didn't seem like you wanted to identify the town you live in.....

 

[IslandTractor]

And here it didn't seem like you wanted to identify the town you live in.....

Winchester. Pizzeria is in Woburn though a few blocks away. Louie's Pizza, Main St. Try Louie's special some time. Excellent.

 

[Garandman]

A reprieve in parking wars.

Mayor Martin J. Walsh is throwing in the towel on the longtime practice of kicking space savers to the curb after 48 hours, saying snow is piled too high and residents who spent hours digging out cars should be able to claim the spots — a move being applauded in Southie, ground zero for the city’s parking wars.

Walsh yesterday said he’s indefinitely suspending the policy under former Mayor Thomas M. Menino to ban the space savers 48 hours after a heavy snowfall. Amid the record-setting snowfall that has pummeled the city, Walsh said space savers may be the only way some residents are able to find street parking.

“The policy has always been under the previous administration 48 hours and then you ... remove your space saver,” Walsh said yesterday, noting in years past that was enough time for snow to melt. But not this year.

“There’s no parking out there in the city,” he said. “There are snowbanks in the city that just haven’t melted at all.”

The city “relaxed” the 48-hour period so “people could still have a parking space. ... I don’t know when we’re going to lift that,” Walsh said.

 

[Garandman]

From the city's Snow Center.

Neighborhood Miles Plowed: 298,678
Amount of Salt: 109,848 tons
Hours Worked: 189,130

Monthly snowfall for February to date:

Caribou, ME 18.5"
Burlington, VT 22.7"
Concord, NH 42.6"
Buffalo, NY 44.9"
Boston 64.6"

Tennis, anyone? :laughing:

 

[leonz]

OK;

Now as I understand it from WBZ1030 tonight.

The parking space savers will be removed by the Boston DPW crews and the mayor
told the residents not to give the DPW crews a hard time about removing the
space savers, so now Barbie Doll, the lawn chairs picnic coolers, and gas grills must go.

 

[Garandman]

Article in Dorchester Reporter.

Around 9:20 p.m. on Franklin Hill Avenue. The suspects used knives to force the victim inside an apartment there, then stole a car. They escaped in the victim's low-ride Honda SUV, Mass. registration 319 XA2.

First comment:

Now the thieves are stuck finding somewhere to park it. Hope they try to move a space saver.

The Dot, where "low ride Honda SUV's" are so popular, people invade homes to steal them! :laughing:

The parking space savers will be removed by the Boston DPW crews and the mayor told the residents not to give the DPW crews a hard time about removing the space savers, so now Barbie Doll, the lawn chairs picnic coolers, and gas grills must go.

Former Mayor Menino did not like the policy and announced that trash truck crews were going to take them.

Along with the fact that the crews are contractors who weren't really being paid for that, some people put all the things they weren't supposed to take: computer monitors, paint cans, even toilets. He meekly surrendered.

Walsh is more popular and our trash day isn't until Friday, but perhaps one third of parking capacity under 3-8' snow banks and little or no thawing I don't know why he decided to make next week the time.

Some people have just given up, don't need the car or are from away. This tends to make neighbors pretty angry if the car is from outside the neighborhood. We had a BMW covered in snow next to our house for two weeks, having taken a spot we cleared for neighbors. We were able to get his phone # and give him a call.

 

[Garandman]

New campaign in Somerville. While lots of stories go around about all the extracurriculars, in over 15 years in South Boston (Ground Zero for "space savers") I never saw a documented instance of vandalism or fisticuffs. They definitely occur, but it's an extreme rarity.

 

[leonz]

New campaign in Somerville. While lots of stories go around about all the extracurriculars, in over 15 years in South Boston (Ground Zero for "space savers") I never saw a documented instance of vandalism or fisticuffs. They definitely occur, but it's an extreme rarity.

The flyer pasted to the pole is more than adequate.

If anyone tried to use space savers up here it would
be removed quickly and tossed in a dumpster by a dpw crew
and the area cleared of snow back to the curb and beyond
if sidewalks are flush with the curb.

The public would be reminded that on street parking is public parking
and not reserved for anyone period and cars would be towed if a snow
emergency was declared for snow removal purposes or if highways were
physically blocked by DPW barriers preventing access during a storm AND
they would be ticketed or arrested if they are driving during a snow emergency
unless they were law enforcement, municipal workers or health care workers/doctors/nurses etc.,
traveling to a hospital.