Quincy snow job goes smoothly for the most part for a change

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– News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News

Quincy snow job goes smoothly for the most part for a change.

And locals for the most part were surprised.

Then again, the weekend storm that dropped roughly ten inches of very fluffy and light snow could not have hit the Q at a better time as the bulk of the storm hit Saturday afternoon and continued into the evening.

Taking care of priorities
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo

Additionally, with local residents mostly hunkered down for the storm, the weekend and/or to watch the Wild Card round of the National Football playoffs, work crews were thus largely unencumbered by traffic or other impediments.

As always, city work crews were hard at work clearly the City Hall VIP parking lot and entrance ways to City Hall early Saturday afternoon and regardless of the fact that City Hall was closed up tight for the weekend.

Conversely, however, local schools were not given a top priority as school entrances were covered with snow Sunday morning whereas City Hall was cleared down to the pavement on Saturday.

Schools still snowed in on Sunday morning
A Quincy Quarry News sled dog team photo

Even so, much of the rest of the Q was well-cleared of snow by Sunday morning, including that for the most part many local streets were cleared close to their curbs, salted and thus for the most part readily passable.

In fact, Quincy Quarry received a number of reports that the often tough going in the Hough’s Neck neighborhood after a snow storm was in surprisingly decent shape Sunday morning.

Decent performance on a sizeable snowfall notwithstanding, the Quarry cannot rate the clearing effort higher than a B given both the ideal timing of the storm, the extremely light and dry nature of the snowfall itself as well as City Hall’s yet again not making local public schools a priority.

Why is this man smiling?
A City of Quincy official mugshot

As such, Quincy Quarry saw no point reaching out to to City of Quincy Department of Public Works Commissar Dan “Spanky” Raymondi for comment and so have to suffer hearing Spanky go on and on and on and on even more about the hardworking men and (some, ed.) women at the DPW given that much of the snow removal effort is farmed out to contractors at this point, especially among those well-favored during the 2015 Snow Job.

Even so, locals will gladly go with this performance given what they have suffered in the past.

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