Interesting article on snow removal and location

[Nick]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100216/...ng_the_streets

After last week, this doesn't surprise me:

And in the South, where even a light dusting is enough to paralyze commuters until the weather warms up and melts away the problem, most major cities have only a handful of plows — if any at all. In Dallas, a city of 1.2 million people but not a single dedicated snow plow, authorities count on snowflakes melting the minute they touch the ground.

[Dexter Dogg]

In Dallas, a city of 1.2 million people but not a single dedicated snow plow, authorities count on snowflakes melting the minute they touch the ground.

Any contractors there must be making a killing!!

[Melissa]

The difference just between central Indiana and southern Indiana where my parents live is even amazing.

[blacklabelias]

Interesting article. My husband is the VP/General Manager for a landscaping company that also does snow removal (mostly commercial and residence home owners associations). My husband is out there in a snow plow with the rest of the company. They run about 25 plows,about 5 machines (backhoes, loaders, etc) and at times 80plus laborers shoveling and snow blowing. It's been an interesting and challenging season for them.
They were still working even 5 days after this last storm, literally removing snow from their sites because they just had no where to put it.

You wouldn't believe the kinds of things that go on 'behind the scenes". My husband will return home from 36 hours or more out plowing, he'll just lay down and the phone will start ringing off the hook with complaints. It's never ending. One problem they had this past storm was the home owners were shoveling out their cars and dumping the snow into the lanes of travel (streets, walkways), so they were forced to go back out and clean up time after time.
Thankfully, these 2 last storms, they actually received several emails from property managers thanking them for the great job they did.
These homeowners are going to go through the roof when they get a bill from their association for the excess snow removal costs because they did not allocate enough money in their budget this year.
As my husband would agree, all these headaches are worth it, because we are going to do very well financially because of it.