Tuesday morning. Back to looking pretty
Truck into stump Belchertown Road (Rt 9), driver transported to CDH
Sunday the white stuff was just enough to make things look pretty, but on Monday it brought a little chaos, closing public schools (except UMass) and contributing to dozens of accidents all over our town and surrounding communities served by Amherst Fire Department.
Mill Valley Road, Hadley: car into tree (no injuries)
Some drivers were fortunate in not finding a solid object to stop their vehicle after going into a slide on ice and simply needed a wrecker to pull them back onto the road.
Car pulled back onto road South Pleasant Street
Others were less fortunate as bridge abutments, trees, telephone poles, stumps and guard rails brought their out of control vehicles to an instant stop.
Car into bridge abutment South East Street
DPW counterattacks, town center
Miss Emily and Mr. Frost yesterday: having a pleasant conversation
Miss Emily and Mr. Frost today: "What the Hell?!"
One other thing about K-12 -- you don't have to drive to work when it snows...
ReplyDeleteOnce again pd and fd have to pick up the slack because DPW doesn't do it's job. Expect another grievance to be filed.
ReplyDeleteApparently you didn't get out of Town yesterday, Amherst had some of the best roads in the area.
DeleteMake that 2 for South East Street.
ReplyDeleteWe live in New England when the weather gets bad we slow down. If you don't
ReplyDeletea tree or other object will do the job for you.
So smarten up people.
Presuming the DPW dropped the ball (not saying they did), the issue is not the harm that caused the public, but that because the public was harmed, APD & AFD had to do extra work. Extra work to honor their promise to the public to be there for them (as best they can).
ReplyDeleteWe don't see advocacy for the public here -- no, we see complaints about workloads.
This is bull=bleep...