If the storm sewers are debris free in Seward it is because when I lived there the residents who lived on the corners with the storm sewers cleaned the grates themselves. Many is the time when I was out walking in the rain and I would run across a resident with a rake unplugging a grate through standing water.
It's called seeing what needs to be done and then doing it. Also known as taking some personal responsiblity for your neighborhood. I'm not casting aspersions on Phillips, but if you want to make the leap go ahead, I won't stop you. ;-) Lest you think that Minneapolis is alone in overlooking clogged storm sewers, I have a brother who lives in Shakopee who hauled 7 wheelbarrows of stuff from the storm sewer in front of his house just this spring. This, after that city said it would come out and pick up the goop he had cleared from the sewer grate so that his house didn't flood. Do you really want to spend tax dollars on having the city police the sewer grates? Better they should put the trash cans back out, IMHO. Barbara Nelson once and future Minneapolitan living in temporary self-imposed exile in Burnsville where it is raining to beat the band! _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
