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<blockquote data-quote="dreamer" data-source="post: 224247" data-attributes="member: 1697"><p>oh yes..last MOnday? Yes. what a mess. I took my lil vw bug and went up to our VERY popular picturesque town square on an errand. i got there and there were 3 ambulances in rfont of me.not sure why..and we were not moving on the street leading into the square. we were there maybe 20 mins! so we are watching, and next we see cars going backwards.......oh wait, being PUSHED.and cars going the wrong way.....but we cannot tell whats going on cuz the ambulances are in front of us. </p><p>we finally begin to inch forward.....and we are watching walking pedestrians slip and fall on the sidewalks.....WOW! </p><p>one ambulance tries to enter the square area......it is brick....and it is banked....the center is highest, and there is angled parking on inside and outside. (it is one way around in a circle and 4 exit/entrances to square) The cars were sliding from the driving lane to the parking spaces around the outside. Even the ambulances were. so the first ambulance slid and came to rest against a few cars parked.....so the 2nd and 3rd ambulances did not go BUT....behind me were at least 8 more cars....we were on a one way street going in....the 2nd ambulnce finally did try to get around the first, and it slid, too.....eventually..city workes came on bobcats....armed with tons of salt.....and they spread a thick layer of salt around each of us....and then gathered and lifted each vehicle and set it upon the salt and then pushed each vehicle out of the square. It happened very suddenly, one minute the square was just fine and then wham.....when the ambulance directly in front of me moved forward, I tried to move, and crept forward maybe one foot, and WHOA......my lil bug just drifted itself and came to rest against the sidewalk. sideways. Not a thing I could do about it. Once the crews set me on a surface I could drive on.I had to think carefully what way to go to stay off any hills and away from curves....so I wound up going kinda far out of my way to go home, to avoid a repeat. Yesh. and it was afternoon rush hour, it was a mess. </p><p></p><p>they are not salting and plowing as much this year becuz of economy and last years snow removal (it destroyed the budget so bad and created a salt shortage) .we had record breaking amounts of snow LAST year and they say this year we are getting twice of last years.YIKES.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer, post: 224247, member: 1697"] oh yes..last MOnday? Yes. what a mess. I took my lil vw bug and went up to our VERY popular picturesque town square on an errand. i got there and there were 3 ambulances in rfont of me.not sure why..and we were not moving on the street leading into the square. we were there maybe 20 mins! so we are watching, and next we see cars going backwards.......oh wait, being PUSHED.and cars going the wrong way.....but we cannot tell whats going on cuz the ambulances are in front of us. we finally begin to inch forward.....and we are watching walking pedestrians slip and fall on the sidewalks.....WOW! one ambulance tries to enter the square area......it is brick....and it is banked....the center is highest, and there is angled parking on inside and outside. (it is one way around in a circle and 4 exit/entrances to square) The cars were sliding from the driving lane to the parking spaces around the outside. Even the ambulances were. so the first ambulance slid and came to rest against a few cars parked.....so the 2nd and 3rd ambulances did not go BUT....behind me were at least 8 more cars....we were on a one way street going in....the 2nd ambulnce finally did try to get around the first, and it slid, too.....eventually..city workes came on bobcats....armed with tons of salt.....and they spread a thick layer of salt around each of us....and then gathered and lifted each vehicle and set it upon the salt and then pushed each vehicle out of the square. It happened very suddenly, one minute the square was just fine and then wham.....when the ambulance directly in front of me moved forward, I tried to move, and crept forward maybe one foot, and WHOA......my lil bug just drifted itself and came to rest against the sidewalk. sideways. Not a thing I could do about it. Once the crews set me on a surface I could drive on.I had to think carefully what way to go to stay off any hills and away from curves....so I wound up going kinda far out of my way to go home, to avoid a repeat. Yesh. and it was afternoon rush hour, it was a mess. they are not salting and plowing as much this year becuz of economy and last years snow removal (it destroyed the budget so bad and created a salt shortage) .we had record breaking amounts of snow LAST year and they say this year we are getting twice of last years.YIKES. [/QUOTE]
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