Snow returns to Quincy. So too do Snow Jobs #mayorkoch

Snow returns to Quincy. So too do Snow Jobs.

– News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News

A bit more than a dusting
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

Sunday night at most a couple of inches of snowfall reminded locals that winter is coming.

Also, and as should come as no surprise to anyone among the ever-growing legends of loyal Quincy Quarry News readers, the City of Quincy’s response to the first snowfall of the year was at best a mixed bag fraught with highs but mostly lows.

Treating local streets was typically both variable as well as often late.  At best, streets were one and down with but a spreading of salt well after both the snowfall ceased as well as after at least busy streets were for the most part cleared of snow by passing traffic.

Traffic clearing snow on a busy Quincy street
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

And as for worse, the Quarry need not recount to its readers what they already know.

At the same time, it is still only proper to note that the cold weather that followed the storm posed icing risks where pavements was not treated with salt or at best not in a timely matter.

After all, anyone who monitored the Quincy Police Department radio channel heard that slip and slide accidents were happening all over the Q.

While not known to a definitive certitude, it would appear that a fair number of the fender benders thus occurred on streets before they might have been salted.

Hockey anyone?
A Quincy Quarry News Sports Desk image

That and how many of the accidents appear to have probably involved drivers who had apparently forgotten how to drive on icy pavement.

The same variable treatment of City of Quincy sidewalks and such in and around Quincy Square was also readily apparent.

As usual, the heavily-used sidewalks along the perimeter of the Crane Public Library were rife with hockey rinks.

Similarly, other also apparently considered to be less than important city-owned sidewalks saw little, if any, care.

Snow and ice? What snow and ice?
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive image

Kim Jong Koch Plaza, however, enjoyed its usual thorough, if not also obsessive, clearing down to the pavement.

Quelle surprise …

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