Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Classes canceled Monday, Tuesday
The Tartan Online: "A blizzard dumping up to two feet of snow shut down much of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon this weekend and into the week — with classes canceled both Monday and Tuesday."
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As someone who has been out driving a couple of times a day since the snow began I'm having trouble seeing what is causing all of the problems. Yes, we got a lot of snow, and yes, it's hard to keep up with an abnormally heavy snow as fast as it's coming down, but the roads weren't all that bad. Main roads were down to a hard-packed snow base by the first evening, and secondary roads usually had at least a lane open for traffic. The biggest problems I saw were drivers with bald summer tires getting stuck (I had to help un-stick a couple of them just to clear the road) and the side streets that didn't get immediate attention so people turned them into obstacle courses by digging out a path for their car to get out and piling the snow into the street itself. With a bit more preparation (it's winter, you need snow tires in this city or else you need to stay home) and common sense (don't make things worse for everyone else just to make them a little easier for yourself) things could have gone better all around and maybe we wouldn't be about to go into our third day of no classes.
Ok,so I havent had a snow for a real snow storm in a long time, and I think that the snow is beautiful i really do. But I must say that I am so embarrassed by the way that Pittsburgh cannot handle snow to save their life. I mean ok, saturday call cancelled I can see that, it was the day after all the snow. However, all the way through Wednesday? That is a little obscene. I guess it ended up working out well for me seeing as how Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I was sick. In any case the first school closing in 20 years, for something that couldve been fixed
I agree with Sonia, I think that this should be a bit embarrassing for Pittsburgh. This is a city that is familiar with snow, they should know how to handle it in an efficient manner. I'm from the other side of Pennsylvania, where we get the same, if not more snow and cold weather. There have been times that we have gotten 3-3.5 feet of snow, and not gotten a snow day at all, or only gotten one day, because they are on top of clearing and treating the roads immediately. I feel like in a city such as Pittsburgh, which is much bigger and busier than where I am from, they would have similar, if not even better methods to deal with storms. I was really surprised that for days and days, not much at all had been done. It's a bit ridiculous.
While I totally believe that the conditions outside did warrant the closing of school because of the driving conditions. However, the fact that the city of Pittsburgh remained in these conditions for so long it just not acceptable. The fact that even four of five days after a snowfall, streets are still impassible to most cars is not ok. I understand that Pittsburgh is not used to this much snow, but the fact that the city had to basically be shut down for three days is ridiculous. Granted, if I was not in tech week, I would not have minded as much, but it still is detrimental to everyone and could have been completely avoided if proper planning could be put into place.
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