Here are two reasons why snow emergencies don't work exactly as they are supposed it.
Just before noon, Mona Coade-Wingate snapped this picture of Second Street just south of Warren. Cars are parked on both sides of the street, in clear violation of the Snow Emergency Plan, which states: AT NO TIME DURING A SNOW EMERGENCY WILL THERE BE PARKING ON 2 SIDES OF ANY STREET.
And then there is this phenomenon, which isn't even addressed in the Snow Emergency Plan. At some time between 5 and 6 p.m., when there was little or no possibility that a snow plow would come through again, someone on the even side of the street shoveled all the snow from his sidewalk into the street, effectively eliminating two parking spaces for the cars still dutifully parked on the odd side, waiting for it to be 8 p.m., when they could move to the even side.
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