Where are them Snow Plows II, Case of the Stuck fire Truck

Well, following up to my last post, Snow Plows still haven’t visited my front door. Oops, make that a correction, one just arrived. Too bad the fire truck already freed itself and returned to the station  awhile ago.

This morning, at 6:30ish, I woke up to clear my driveway of more snow, just like any other normal day after a heavy snowing night. To my surprise a Toronto Fire Truck was struggling at a nearby turn. The fire fighters have been trying to free their ride for quite sometime, as I finish shoveling my drive way, I walked over to see if I could offer some assistance. They have enough of almost everything needed to request themselves. The only thing missing was a clear, plowed, salted road. This missing ingredient in this case might have been a small dent in the fire department’s payroll. What if there was a house at the end of that street on fire? What if it wasn’t a fire truck, but an ambulance and one of my neighbor just had a stroke and requires immediate medical attention?

Its been over 24 hours since it started snowing yesterday, why are the streets still packed with unplowed, unsalted snow?

Where are them Snow Plows??

Today was a fun day for Toronto. At least 20 cm of Snow fell on the City in a few hours. Another time, in the ‘LONG’ history of the Weather Network, the out come are close to predictions. Almost all Television stations which can afford their own weather forecast specialist predicted somewhere between 20 to 25 cm of snow for good old T.O.. The government contracted snow clearing companies have acknowledged this fact yesterday by appearing on some evening News stating that they are ready for this snow storm.

Yet,  almost all roads were not plow this morning, hell they weren’t even salted. Where are the snow plows? Rush hour is between 5:30 am to 9:00am, clearing the roads after 9:00am wouldn’t reduce accidents during rush hour! Didn’t the plow guys just said they were ready? If they knew a storm is coming, and were all prep and ready, why weren’t they doing what they were paid to do?
Maybe if the streets were clear this morning, lots of accidents could have been prevented. It is already too late for the victims of those accidents.