Readers Mixed on Road Conditions Following Snow Storm
I left our new apartment briefly Friday morning, before the snow arrived, using power wheelchair. I didn’t leave again until Sunday morning, driving our car this time.
On Sunday we went to Creve Coeur, Brentwood, and a few other places. By then roads were generally acceptable, but I can imagine how bad they were Friday night. I saw the news reports of motorists in traffic for hours/overnight.
Not experiencing the worst conditions, I was a “slight disagree” on the recent non-scientific Sunday Poll:
Q: Agree or disagree: Given the amount of heavy wet snow we received, state/county/local road crews did the best they could.
- Strongly agree: 7 [24.14%]
- Agree: 7 [24.14%]
- Somewhat agree: 1 [3.45%]
- Neither agree or disagree: 0 [0%]
- Somewhat disagree: 7 [24.14%]
- Disagree: 1 [3.45%]
- Strongly disagree: 4 [13.79%]
- Unsure/No Answer: 2 [6.9%]
A little more than half think the crews did a good job considering. Agreed, in general I think the people behind the wheels of the snow plows do a great job at a thankless job. It’s their bosses that don’t always get it right.
Yesterday we drove to IKEA and leaving I noticed they hadn’t cleared the public sidewalk, nor their accessible routes from the public sidewalk to the entrance — they’d piled snow on them!
More snow expected this weekend.
— Steve Patterson