That belief in Global Warming is hazardous to the welfare of the citizenry
No power outages were reported as of 5 p.m., but Nickels said seven City Light crews were on standby.
The city has 27 trucks designated for snow and ice removal, and all are expected to be working by 6 p.m.
Two of those trucks would be designated to the West Seattle Bridge; another two were assigned to the Alaskan Way Viaduct, Nickels said.
Garbage pickup would not happen “until we have the ability to safely send those trucks out,” Nickels said, adding back loads also would be picked up.
Most side streets will not be covered by city plows.
“We just do not have the capacity to do that,” Nickels said.
For those that have never visited Seattle, the City Fathers basically said “Let’s find the most steep hillside in the region and start building a town there.”
Unless you’re on the narrow flood plains that are the Sodo area or the Rainier Valley, you are on a hill. I had an aunt who lived in West Seattle whom my father called a “cliff dweller” because her street was so steep.
I’m guessing that with Nickels being the watermelon bastard that he is, he believed that he would would never need a snowplow again, because of Global Warming.
Nickels claims that the city doesn’t have “the capacity” (aka: The Money) to make the streets safe for the citizenry (one of the specific requirements laid out in the city charter), but he is willing to spend millions playing chicken with the state constitution to keep law-abiding firearms carriers, who have had the FBI and the Washington State Patrol check their life history for 30 days, off city property.
If I wasn’t so tired of hearing the word “Impeach!” from the local left, I’d start a bandwagon to get Nickels removed.
Roll that bandwagon out, Phil. History of the Northeast shows that the one thing people DO give a shit about is snow removal, and they WILL recall city leaders who screw up snow removal.
There’s no excuse. The standard plan for a city which doesn’t want to maintain a fleet of snowplows is to contract for them. Lots of small construction guys, etc, will maintain a 2-to-5 ton truck that is plow capable, and get paid for it by the City.
I’ve got the topper, though. TeeVee news crew was interviewing a City of Portland plow guy. Plow guy was showing off. Trying to show how diligent he was, doing a pre-trip inspection, etc on his Ford F-650 dump with plow. The guy said, “you have to keep snow from accumulating around your lights”, and used a STEEL shovel to push some snow off the top of a front fender. What a maroon!
After snow duty, the City Shops will have to repaint that fender.
Portland motto is “the City that Works”.
Wrong, motto should be “the City that tries to look busy”
Seattle plan for snow, pray for warm rain. Government is run by corrupt thugs and we allow it, for now.
Any excuse to lawfully remove Nickels from office, is a good excuse. Where do I sign up? 🙂