While making dinner tonight, I saw a city snow plow out the window coming to do the alleys.
Before heading down the alley behind our house, the driver took two quick swipes at the 4-5 foot snowbank that had blocked one of our cars in the driveway. We had planned on tackling the mess over the weekend when we had hopefully recuperated from the flu that has had a couple members of our family in bed this week. With our shovels it would have been an easy half hour or more job for a couple of people. With the big city plow, he took one quick swipe and the whole mountain of snow was gone!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to the city employee who was so thoughtful of
the backbreaking work he could easily have ignored but went the extra mile
instead!
I'd like to say a big thank you to the city snowplow crews, too.
Contrary to the ridiculous recent assertion by some guy who lives in *Plymouth* in a letter to the Star Tribune editor, Minneapolitans are not taking pot shots at MnDOT's plowing job on the highways because we are all DFL, and are ignoring the problems in our own backyard. On Sunday during the snowfall, I had a meeting on the north side of town to attend to and I live in southwest. No problem. All of the snow emergency routes and parkways had been plowed, making the trip there and back easy.
The city then declared a snow emergency on Monday and followed their normal schedule. But then they came back with crews and bobcats to clear corners and even did the sidewalks along the snow emergency route, because they had plowed them under with the heavy snow. Residents did not have to shovel them out twice, especially the second wave of heavy stuff from the street. And I also saw those crews do a few favors for elderly people in my neighborhood, clearing their paths to the street.
It may not be perfect, but I think our snow removal crews do a pretty good job.
Chris Johnson Fulton
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