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The snow's still melting, folks
Dec 30, 2010 6:40 am
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Snow stops NYC, help called in from us Upstaters. Image from NY Daily News."]
[/caption]Reports of massive mess-ups with the first snow emergency of the season keep sluicing in from around the listening area, including some from the socked-in parts of rural Columbia and Greene counties. But mostly from Catskill and Hudson where word of emergency parking restrictions, and accompanying towing procedures, saw frustration from folks who didn't see signs going up about what to do until after their cars were impounded. All of the local hubbub, however, dims next to continuing reports about the mess down in New York City, where entire streets and neighborhoods have yet to be plowed. In today's Daily Mail, there's even a story about how local EMTs have headed down to help in the Big Apple, a local first since the tragic days following 9/11. "According to Greene County EMS Coordinator Dan King, the state Department of Health requested 20 additional ambulances on behalf of the city," reads the story. "On Tuesday, the towns of Catskill and Coxsackie stepped up to the plate, each sending one ambulance with a combined crew of four — three EMTs and one ambulance driver."
From some observation levels, the silver lining to all this is that it takes our minds off calls for shrinking government and other economic worries and puts them back on the travails of day to day life. Which we guess may be one of the reasons we still have winter after all these years. For the full story read The Daily Mail.
[/caption]Reports of massive mess-ups with the first snow emergency of the season keep sluicing in from around the listening area, including some from the socked-in parts of rural Columbia and Greene counties. But mostly from Catskill and Hudson where word of emergency parking restrictions, and accompanying towing procedures, saw frustration from folks who didn't see signs going up about what to do until after their cars were impounded. All of the local hubbub, however, dims next to continuing reports about the mess down in New York City, where entire streets and neighborhoods have yet to be plowed. In today's Daily Mail, there's even a story about how local EMTs have headed down to help in the Big Apple, a local first since the tragic days following 9/11. "According to Greene County EMS Coordinator Dan King, the state Department of Health requested 20 additional ambulances on behalf of the city," reads the story. "On Tuesday, the towns of Catskill and Coxsackie stepped up to the plate, each sending one ambulance with a combined crew of four — three EMTs and one ambulance driver."From some observation levels, the silver lining to all this is that it takes our minds off calls for shrinking government and other economic worries and puts them back on the travails of day to day life. Which we guess may be one of the reasons we still have winter after all these years. For the full story read The Daily Mail.