[Raider111]

Our cul de sac neighborhood wasn't plowed until later in the afternoon, but the Post Rd and highway were clear as can be

[BeyondtheHorizon]

Originally Posted by blakesq

I have only lived in CT and Lake Tahoe, NV for places that required snow plowing. Both have done generally good jobs. Sometimes it takes a while for the plow to make it to your specific location (both in NV and CT). ONce a few years ago in Milford, when we had snowmageddon, and around 16 inches of snow, it took about 3 days for the snow plows to get to our neighborhood, that's the worst its ever been, and not that uncommon for really bad snowstorms in any part of the nation.

That's not true. Areas that get heavy snow could handle that with ease.

3 days for a plow to get to 16 inches of snow? They'd have that plowed out the same day in buffalo, rochester, marquette, syracuse, quebec city(130 inch average and a major city) ect. Hell, almost every year these places tend to get around a 2 foot + event. "Snowmageddon" occurs routinely north of syracuse and south of buffalo.

It would almost never take 3 days to get plowed out in areas that can handle big snows. CT isn't used to snow like that, that's why that happened. Obviously it makes no sense to invest in enough snowmaking equipment to handle something that RARELY happens. If Atlanta got 4 inches, it would probably take a week to get plowed out. lol

[Raider111]

Originally Posted by BeyondtheHorizon

That's not true. Areas that get heavy snow could handle that with ease.

3 days for a plow to get to 16 inches of snow? They'd have that plowed out the same day in buffalo, rochester, marquette, syracuse, quebec city(130 inch average and a major city) ect. Hell, almost every year these places tend to get around a 2 foot + event. "Snowmageddon" occurs routinely north of syracuse and south of buffalo.

It would almost never take 3 days to get plowed out in areas that can handle big snows. CT isn't used to snow like that, that's why that happened. Obviously it makes no sense to invest in enough snowmaking equipment to handle something that RARELY happens. If Atlanta got 4 inches, it would probably take a week to get plowed out. lol

Now this makes sense. Snowmageddon 2010 and 2013 (I think) were very rare, never seen winters like those before, snowfall wise.

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by BeyondtheHorizon

That's not true. Areas that get heavy snow could handle that with ease.

3 days for a plow to get to 16 inches of snow? They'd have that plowed out the same day in buffalo, rochester, marquette, syracuse, quebec city(130 inch average and a major city) ect. Hell, almost every year these places tend to get around a 2 foot + event. "Snowmageddon" occurs routinely north of syracuse and south of buffalo.

It would almost never take 3 days to get plowed out in areas that can handle big snows. CT isn't used to snow like that, that's why that happened. Obviously it makes no sense to invest in enough snowmaking equipment to handle something that RARELY happens. If Atlanta got 4 inches, it would probably take a week to get plowed out. lol

I beg to differ. I lived through the Feb 2013 megastorm (32" in West Hartford). Snow stopped around noon on Saturday; by late Sunday our street (and driveway) had been plowed, and we were able to get out to our Big Y which was open!

Similar experience with a 22" snowfall in 2011. One day of school closures and that was it. I can't speak for the coastline, but inland/northern CT is definitely used to it.

[BeyondtheHorizon]

Originally Posted by htfdcolt

I beg to differ. I lived through the Feb 2013 megastorm (32" in West Hartford). Snow stopped around noon on Saturday; by late Sunday our street (and driveway) had been plowed, and we were able to get out to our Big Y which was open!

Similar experience with a 22" snowfall in 2011. One day of school closures and that was it. I can't speak for the coastline, but inland/northern CT is definitely used to it.

Much of interior CT wasn't plowed for days. This is a fact.

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by BeyondtheHorizon

Much of interior CT wasn't plowed for days. This is a fact.

What I stated was a fact too, from personal experience...I'm in interior CT and we were up & running in 36 hrs.

While CT is not like the snow belt when it comes to snow removal (I've lived on the east side of Cleveland, so I know), I can unequivocally state we're far better than most parts of the Midwest, and it goes without saying, far better than parts south of us.

[Loriact]

Originally Posted by BeyondtheHorizon

Much of interior CT wasn't plowed for days. This is a fact.

Our town plows couldn't handle our street, which is a steep hill in a sudivision. We and a bunch of neighbors used snow blowers to clear a good part of our road down the hill to the plowed street Sunday morning. My husband and I were then able to catch our flight to visit family in Arizona. We heard it was a couple more days until the rest of our subdivision was plowed.

[mels]

I'll chime in with my anecdote from the winter of snowmageddon: my road was plowed before I finished clearing my driveway (hilly suburb of Hartford). My town isn't great at keeping roads perfectly clear but they are great about getting the first and second plow pass in so roads are at least passable, no matter how many feet of snow we get.

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by Loriact

Our town plows couldn't handle our street, which is a steep hill in a sudivision. We and a bunch of neighbors used snow blowers to clear a good part of our road down the hill to the plowed street Sunday morning. My husband and I were then able to catch our flight to visit family in Arizona. We heard it was a couple more days until the rest of our subdivision was plowed.

^^Yes, but the fact that you were able to make it to the airport, and that flights were operating, the very next day after such an event, speaks volumes and reinforces my earlier point.

[kidyankee764]

Everyone in central and northern CT boasting about how well their towns cleared roads during "snowmageddon", keep in mind Southern CT got quite a bit more snow than most. It was coming down so hard in the New Haven area that it became a hazard for both emergency vehicles and snow plows to be out on the roads.