311 complaint of the day: Snow, snow everywhere, and not a plow in sight

Get off your butts, stop texting 311 while driving and clear off your own sidewalks before you start making demands.

I was watching the weather forecast because we had tickets to the Solstice event at Mt. Auburn Cemetery*. The original forecast was for snow to start around 3pm and nothing to stick until about 9pm.The weather apps yesterday morning were predicting that it would stay above freezing into the evening.

But it got much colder much sooner, started snowing at 10:30 and started sticking to the roads around 1:30 just north of the city. By then it was accumulating on everything. We shoveled up and brushed 2-3" off the car when we left at 7.

Funny how the same folk who have conniptions about "everyone has gone soft" and "all this for nothing" [insert globalist conspiracy theory about NOAA and media here] are the first to complain when it goes the other way and they actually have to employ time management, slow down and activate driving skills.

My plan this morning: get to the empty unplowed high school parking lot and practice steering out of skids and other snow handling skills.

*will send photos to Adam on request - or he can mine my FB post.

… for us and the many pedestrians enjoying the walk in the snow about 3:30 yesterday at the Copley end of the Southwest Corridor park on down the pathway.

That's the Route 21 bus stop I usually get off to go to work, and that hill is steep. (Milton Ave, Ellison St and Pleasant Hill Ave are even steeper - think San Francisco-grade hills.) The less-steep alternative is Druid St, but then you have to eyeball the cars coming off Morton St towards Clearwater Drive to check that they're not whizzing by at 60mph.

Is there ever a winter storm when nobody complains?

Funny how people are always screaming about taxes and wanting lower taxes, but when services aren't up to their standards, they scream their asses off.

This is only the beginning and just on a local level. Wait 'til Prez Musk and his associate trump slash all the organizations that provide services and slash taxes that fund services. Need to call the IRS for tax help? Good luck. Want those roads fixed? Ha! (even state and local roads receive lots of Fed funds). Is your non-profit applying for a grant to help people? Forget it. Is your school falling apart? Too bad. But hey, the billionaires are happy and making more money, so that's good.

Corporate taxes were slashed last time (35% to 21%, a 40% drop) and trump wants to slash them again (to 15%) because the billionaire CEOs gave them millions. The pie is much smaller.

Does the richest guy in the world care about others? Has he ever uttered a word about helping out the unfortunate? Nope. It's really easy being a libertarian when you have billions and billions.

Only the beginning.

What’s the deal with drivers honking at people driving at speeds appropriate for the conditions? Yes, this is really how much slower you need to drive through rotaries and approaching stop signs.

The only accident I saw was late Friday night at the Fenway-Kenmore split with one car on a flatbed and the other dangling off the metal divider like what would happen if one couldn’t decide on the exit and split the difference. MSP were there. I can only guess what happened.

...and the entire sidewalk alongside the park and crossing the bridge between Park Drive (West Fenway) and Boylston Street (East Fenway) is a solid sheet of ice. Not even a hint of salt or sand.

I suspect this is some kind of passing-the-jurisdictional-buck situation, between the city and the (former?) MDC. I filed a 311 report online, but I'll wager that whoever is responsible will just wait until a thaw. Or a broken hip.