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Mike Fratto said: ...it shouldn't take a snow emergency announcement to tell people their street will (should be) be plowed in the next day or two.
I say: No doubt. But knowing the street will be plowed "in the next day or two" doesn't help me figure out where I need to put my car, for all the legal places within walking distance will be plowed "in the next day or two". I have to play the car-shuffle to avoid getting ticketed each snow emergency.
I don't know what your street and car situation is, but mine is that they plow east-west one day and north-south another. So when it snows, I have to move the car from the usual parking spot to a new one on one day, then move it back before anyone gets irate that I'm in their "usual" spot. I find it very difficult to accurately predict the 4 hour time block when I need to have my car out of the usual space, especially because they tend to plow at 7 or 8 am and I don't leave for work usually until 8:30. If it snows heavily the night before, they'll end up plowing before I've even looked out the window to see.
Plus you have to consider that not every car parked along the curb can be started and moved within 5 minutes. Some folks have the luxury of having all their cars in good working order. Some do not. It'd be nice to have an upper class suburban home with a spacious garage and driveway so I didn't have these problems, or all new cars that were super-reliable, but I wasn't born rich and I'm still working on getting that way.
Mary Baker East Side
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