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Denver Mayor Hickenlooper Wants Plowed Streets, Looks For Sleds
CBS4 Denver ^ | December 21, 2006 | Colleen Slevin

Posted on 12/21/2006 8:31:19 AM PST by freedomdefender

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1 posted on 12/21/2006 8:31:20 AM PST by freedomdefender
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Here in Colorado, I've never seen a worse job of snow-plowing. I don't know why, and I'm not blaming anybody. But the snowplow guys really have had a bad time with this storm. The main streets are still bad, well over a day after the storm hit.


2 posted on 12/21/2006 8:36:42 AM PST by KellyAdmirer
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Hickenlooper wants to sponsor sledding at four parks around the city

State sponsored sledding?

3 posted on 12/21/2006 8:36:48 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: KellyAdmirer
Here in Colorado, I've never seen a worse job of snow-plowing

Sounds like a job for:


4 posted on 12/21/2006 8:38:07 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: freedomdefender

What was his name, again? Naginlooper? ;)


5 posted on 12/21/2006 8:39:17 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
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"We could have three times the number of snow plows and it wouldn't make any difference," he says. "This is nature throwing a full left hook to your chin and you've got to pull back and deal with it."

What--Americans be inconvenienced??!! Perish the thought!!

I wonder how many Kalifornia transplant 4WD SUVs (with street tires, of course) are in Denver ditches?

6 posted on 12/21/2006 8:39:44 AM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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I prefer the PlowKing


7 posted on 12/21/2006 8:43:53 AM PST by mrmargaritaville
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To: KellyAdmirer
But the snowplow guys really have had a bad time with this storm.

Depends on the plan that the snowplow drivers must follow. They are just following directions.

I have friends that live in Reno Nevada. 2-3 years ago they had quite a bit of snow. The plowing plan was ridiculous and some main routes were done after secondaries, in some instances 2-3 days after the storm. The plowing also seemd haphazard. The public was furious. It was not the drivers fault. They were just following the plan.

The following winter another big storm hit. This time plowing went much better. Seems the public outcry made a difference the second time around.

8 posted on 12/21/2006 8:44:53 AM PST by technomage (Protest Voters are ignorant, immature, selfish people who have no capacity for long term thinking)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

Yeah..I was wondering if the toilets at the Airport are backing up yet? LOL.


9 posted on 12/21/2006 8:46:55 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: KellyAdmirer

Was there ice underneath or on top of the snow? Most snow plows in urban areas have rubber bits to prevent damaging the road. If there's a thick layer of ice on top of or underneath snow, a rubber bit does absolutely no good. We ran into this problem a few years ago at my workplace when we had freezing rain over a 6 inch base of snow.

Steel bits will cut into the ice but the plow has to be able to have them attached. Of course, if it wasn't for the eco-nazis we could just salt the crap out of the road in a emergency like this and have the roads open in a couple of hours.


10 posted on 12/21/2006 8:49:37 AM PST by Tailback
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Hickenlooper wants to sponsor sledding at four parks around the city Thursday, serving hot chocolate and offering sleds to anyone who doesn't have them.

Sleds should be RENTED, with the extra money going to pay for overtime on the pough crews' parts. Quick - break into that store and see if they have any sleds they can part with (even though nobody's there to ask)...

Oooops... This is Denver, not LA.

11 posted on 12/21/2006 8:50:57 AM PST by MortMan (I was going to be indecisive, but I changed my mind.)
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POUGH! POUGH! MortMan ploughs into another direct hit on his spelling!

DOH!


12 posted on 12/21/2006 8:53:26 AM PST by MortMan (I was going to be indecisive, but I changed my mind.)
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To: Tailback
It's wet snow because it came from down South, and it's freezing cold, so no doubt the lower level is frozen. I've been hearing spinning car wheels ever since the storm hit. The roads - not just the sides of the roads - are still littered with abandoned sedans. If you don't have 4WD, you are in big trouble out here.

I don't understand the salt ban in Colorado. Salt works fine back East. But a side effect is that you have a fair number of fine old classic cars on the road, much more than I see in the Northeast, that haven't rusted out.

A relative of mine drives a plow, so I'm not attacking snowplow drivers, who live a rough life during times like this.

13 posted on 12/21/2006 8:55:44 AM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: KellyAdmirer

I didn't get the feeling that you were attacking plow drivers, I just wanted to help educate people that may not know the circumstances involved. Many enviro-whackos, when informed of the consequences of their movement, rethink their positions. Well OK not many, but a couple of the ones with critical thinking skills.


14 posted on 12/21/2006 9:04:34 AM PST by Tailback
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"I wonder how many Kalifornia transplant 4WD SUVs (with street tires, of course) are in Denver ditches?" LMAO


15 posted on 12/21/2006 9:10:30 AM PST by verity (Muhammed is a Dirt Bag)
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To: KellyAdmirer

I believe the Canadian province of Alberta implemented a salt ban some years ago to reduce the number of vehicle-animal collisions in the winter time. Apparently deer and elk would congregate on roads in the winter to eat the salt.


16 posted on 12/21/2006 9:14:56 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
"Naginlooper?"

Seems appropriate for such a vanilla city ;-)

17 posted on 12/21/2006 9:19:58 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Voted Free Republic's Most Eligible Bachelor: 2006. Love them Diebold machines.)
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I don't understand the salt ban in Colorado.

Kills roadside trees.

18 posted on 12/21/2006 9:24:32 AM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: KellyAdmirer

Were they waiting for the winds to die down before plowing? If so, I can understand that.


19 posted on 12/21/2006 9:26:24 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: KellyAdmirer

The streets around Boulder are in a mess. No Postal service yesterday and likely none today either. A lot of the malls had to close down early yesterday. This last week before Christmas is make or break for some retailers.


20 posted on 12/21/2006 9:29:37 AM PST by BRITinUSA
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