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Whirlibird
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Depending upon what happens, most things end up a null issue.

We got 5′ of snow in a week, two years ago. School was delayed, and the busses didn’t run out of town, but our plow crews pretty much had all the main arteries open by noon the first day and not only kept them open but got all the secondary streets and most of the residential a by mid-week.

My advantage is I do work for the municipality and between the doctors and LEO’s in the neighborhood, ours is one of the first streets plowed.

Having seen a number of emergency situations around here, our city actually has it better than most, but that also comes from all the oil and gas professionals who retire and take up city offices or committee positions.

And I can actually close our building for various reasons and have done so, power and water outages, ice storms, etc., if it’s not safe for our people or the public, the doors stay locked.

  • This reply was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by  Whirlibird.
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