Posted on 01/04/2022 10:04:45 AM PST by yesthatjallen
As we told you earlier, there’s an ongoing humanitarian crisis on I-95 in northern Virginia where thousands of motorists were stranded overnight in the aftermath of Monday’s snowstorm and frigid temperatures.
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Most agencies budget for snow and ice control/removal, but then they sit on their butts and do nothing. If the budget year ends on December 30th and they haven’t used their budget, it is swept back into the General Fund.
I always made sure to buy more brine and salt & sand to have on hand instead of letting it go back to the GF. And if we had an event after December 30th, then my snow budget was already flush with the new budget year.
Another fallacy is the cost of manpower to take care of the plowing and sanding. If it’s snowing and we were plowing, those crews were still getting paid to show up for work as if it the weather was good, therefore the labor cost hasn’t changed. Then I would flex the crew schedules to avoid OT pay and would have staff assigned to come in after hours.
I always figured if my streets were clear then our businesses were open and generating sales tax.
Since they weren’t moving, why didn’t tgey just get out, hop the guard rail and go to McDonald’s? There’s one about every 20 feet along I-95...
Anyway… imagine all those motorists stuck in that snowstorm driving electric cars with the heater blasting warm air until… battery dead. Tick-tock… < P>
Call AAA. “Hey, fill er up.”
What?
Take responsibility for themselves?
Get cold? Get their feet wet? Get their HAIR wet?
The horror…..
Interestingly it seems that Ted Cruz couldn’t get the same courtesy around here last Feb ...
“I suspect they stopped using road salt under the prior governor.”
youngkin isn’t the gov yet, happens in a couple of months ....
“youngkin isn’t the gov yet, happens in a couple of months ....”
Whoops.
Proves libtards hate their leaders but too cowardly to speak up unless they think it’s a republican 🤪
Yes,but the Communist media's opinion of us great toothless unwashed out here in flyover country is that we will believe that Youngkin is already governor.
Virginia was flush with covid cash. They gave themselves a big raise and are happy. Everything is fine as far as they are concerned.
Where are all the narcissistic AH’s who tout their Tesla toy cars and other gimmicks during winter’s brutal wasteland and frozen stagnation on the interstate?
Those POS “vehicles” are nothing more than tin coffins waiting for the corpse inside to completely freeze over once the battery is dead.
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