Frank Smith Says NB: New Britain Assigns Panel To Report On Lessons From Blizzard Cleanup - Courant.com

Thursday, February 28, 2013

New Britain Assigns Panel To Report On Lessons From Blizzard Cleanup - Courant.com

by DON STACOM

5 comments:

Lou Salvio said...: New Britain's hilly topography presents special challenges to cleaning up after snowstorms. I live on such a hill and have cursed the PW Dept. every time after a snow storm for close to 50 years ... it hasn't improved my situation at all ! Fortunately, this time, I received help from neighbors and a family member in digging me out. It was a week before I could clear the rear entrance.

Perhaps the committee will come up with some positive suggestions, we'll see. One response that I hope will be abandoned will be the tendency to blame someone. Consider the following piece from the Herald article today; "A similar committee was formed following the October 2011 snowstorm while Mayor Timothy T. Stewart was mayor. Among other things, the committee at the time wrote that Stewart should have opened the Emergency Operations Center and there should have been better management of the city’s shelters." This blaming and the continual reference to the previous administration by the Herald, to me, is puerile behavior and serves no purpose. The City's EOC provides no tangible help in massive storms. Perhaps the Committee will refrain from this type of blaming reference.; February 28, 2013 at 8:28 AM
Anonymous said...: Perhaps if the plows didn't have to make repeated trips to Commonwealth Avenue or the area around DeFronzo's house as I keep reading about, they would have had sufficient time to plow the rest of the city?; February 28, 2013 at 10:49 AM
Anonymous said...: Just imagine the stories we would have been reading if the Stewart administration were responsible for such a disastrous failure?; February 28, 2013 at 4:44 PM
Anonymous said...: Is there any wonder that the newspaper poll for the next election was that the people want anyone but the current mayor?

Mark Bernacki
(25.11%, 55 Votes)
Tim O'Brien
(21.92%, 48 Votes)
Tim Stewart
(28.31%, 62 Votes)

If you add the votes for Stewart and Bernacki (117) the total makes it clear that by 3 to 1 the public wants a Republican back in the mayor's office!; February 28, 2013 at 9:57 PM
Anonymous said...: These two losers couldn't find their way out of a wet paper bag. I believe they could even screw up a wet dream.; March 1, 2013 at 7:13 PM

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)