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Washington Street shortly before sunrise this morning
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Quincy Quarry News personnel hit the ever-increasingly mean streets of Quincy early today as well as remained out and about through mid-morning to see how the City of Quincy’s Department of Public Works was responding to the third light snowfall locally in less than ten days.
Early on before sunrise, primary roadways were at best minimally cleared.
Fortunately, so too minimal was the snowfall.
Unfortunately, side streets surveyed by Quincy Quarry personnel were found to be all but devoid of any signs of snow clearing.
By 9 am, however, at least main roadways were well-cleared even if side streets were at best not as well-cleared as main streets.
Some things never change …
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Then by mid-afternoon the snowfall had turned to rain and thus for the most part turned already fallen snow into slush. Fortunately, a number of local streets had concurrently been plowed and salted by snow clearing vehicles.
This soon changed, however, as well as suddenly.
After the sun set, a cold front concurrently moved into the area and by around 6 pm Quincy Quarry had received multiple reports of freezing rain most everywhere in the Q as well as black ice on local streets.
In particular, one distressing report was of how at least a handful of pedestrians were down at “Quincy Common.”
“Call DPW at 617-376-1959 and not City Hall.”
A still image via YouTube.
Further distressing, when a Quincy police officer on the scene at the common called in for back-up by the Department of Public Works, the DPW could not offer up an ETA for seeing personnel to the scene.
In turn, the officer then opined over the Quincy police radio channel that he was pondering buying some rock salt as he viewed the situation as an emergency.
Additionally, a nonpareil Quincy Quarry News information source advised the Quarry that ice was all but endemic on local streets and thus local body shops are surely looking at some serious repair business in coming days.
Further, another reputable Quarry news source reported that his near one story high run of brick front steps had suddenly iced over in the early evening such that the working plan is to spread salt from the front door, wait awhile, carefully step outside a bit to spread more salt, then again wait awhile, and so continue to gradually advance further in stages.
We still have snow on our street off of Quincy shore drive. Not one single plow went down our street until about 4pm. It was really bad.
Hasn’t the city’s snow removal budget been reduced because we’ve had a few mild winters. Oh, and of course ridiculous policies such as granting FoxRock a 40 year tax-free status for one (or more?) of its properties will go far toward helping finance city services. They’ll receive fire, police, snow plowing, public education children of their residents, etc. I’ll volunteer to go tax free on my property for those kinds of benefits.
And the Lord Mayor has not acted on making Quarry Hills/Granite Links fulfill the requirements of their CURRENT agreement and he hasn’t made any comments lately about the outrageous proposal of a 99 year lease.