Comments on: Annapolis crews not backing down, continue to plow through storm

By: Trudy McFall

Trudy McFall — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:43:10 +0000

I walked through downtown today, the eleventh day after the storm. I was truly shocked at the level of disregard on the part of the City on having mayor businesses clean up their sidewalks on the City’s main streets. I and other were forced to walk out in street on Compromise and Sixth Street with cars roaring by within a few feet. I am talking about major businesses with the resources to hire someone for a few hours to clean up their sidewalks. Most absolutely shocking was that the City had not even cleaned its own sidewalks in front of the old rec center. How can that possibly be allowed so many days after the storm. I can think of no excuse for that at all. Shame, shame!!

By: Margaret Thalenberg

Margaret Thalenberg — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:40:49 +0000

Finally, after numerous calls to the city ……..I called the emergency number yesterday and made my complaint once more. Last night (2/15) the front loaders finally came down Lockwood and Creek and worked for hours removing the snow that has been there since the first storm! Thank you to the workers for heading our way and making our street safer. Thank you to “Debbie” from the Dept. of Water and Sewer” who took my call yesterday and passed my message on to the crew. After numerous calls to the City over the last 10 days, this was the first response I received that was positive.
I have yet to get a response from the Mayor after numerous calls and emails. More direction is need in the event of bad weather. I would hate to think of how a storm like Isabel would have been handled under this leadership.

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:11:05 +0000

The front loaders cleared Park Ave. and Wells St. yesterday and they are a million times better now! Thank you very much!

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:07:47 +0000

Just a few words about historic storms in other cities. Several folks have mentioned that Mayor Jane Byrne lost her bid for reelection in Chicago because of poor handling of winter storms. WRONG!It was her predecessor, Michael Bilandic (dubbed Mayor Bland) who lost his reelection bid. Jayne Byrne was the one who beat him and became mayor.

By: Eastport Resident

Eastport Resident — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:27:00 +0000

I live off Burnside Street and Severn Avenue – all of these streets are VERY DANGEROUS due to slush and up to 5 INCHES or MORE OF ICE –

CARS SLIP AND SLIDE ALL OVER and ARE GETTING STUCK FREQUENTLY.

PERSONALLY I WOULD HIRE ALL OF THE WORKERS AND EQUIPMENT AT WATERGATE VILLAGE as THEY HAVE DONE A PHENOMENAL JOB with their EQUIPMENT!

Please HIRE outside contractors QUICKLY in future contingency plans in the future.

( APPARENTLY we didn’t learn or care about FUTURE PLANNING after the MAJOR STORM in DECEMBER)

BTW It is nearly impossible to get over to LEEWARD MARKET off 2nd Street and Chester Avenue … and the LOWER PART OF EASTPORT is in HORRIBLE SHAPE.

Honestly although these 2 storms are of Major Proportion – perhaps wise government leaders would take heed of what much northern cities do.

Thumbs up for the hard working men out there –

Thumbs down for VERY POOR PLANNING and DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES to ANNAPOLIS BUSINESSED and RESIDENTS.

FRANKLY WITHOUT – HIRING and PLANNING FOR THESE EXCEPTIONAL OCCURENCES – THE CITY AND ITS BUSINESSES HAVE LOST HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

NOT TO MENTION the LOSS OF WORK HOURS – BY MANY RESIDENTS.

PEOPLE IN THE REST OF THE COUNTY AND THE DC AREA – Think are snow removal policy is based sunshine!!