Tim O'Brien's Storm Recovery Disaster Blizzard Charlotte dumped an awful lot of snow in New Britain last week. Many believe it was the biggest storm we have seen in our lifetime. Weather forecasters say that is not true. Ch. 3 reported a snowfall in Jan. of 2011 dumped more snow in the area and the Storm of the Century in 1996 gave the state more snow than this one as well.
Do you remember those?
They might be somewhere in the back of your mind. But, the big question is why did this one seem so much bigger?
The answer is because most of us were stuck in our homes for days due to mismanagement by the City. If we received more snow in one storm in 2011, then why weren’t we snowed in for days? Apparently, Mayor Tim Stewart handled the situation better.
In this storm private contractors were hired too late to help and there were less people to man the trucks than in previous years.
Let’s face it, no one can control how much snow we get, but Mayor Tim O’Brien and his deputy chief of staff Phil Sherwood did an awful job taking care of the events surrounding this storm. The only street I heard of that was plowed 4 times in the first 24 hours was Commonwealth Avenue that Mr. Sherwood lives on and it is not a main road.
A map on page 1 shows that even at 8 p.m. on Sunday night the City was nowhere near done. It appeared the megalomaniacs were controlling every step making City workers’ jobs more difficult.
Let’s make this clear. It is not the fault of public works or those working the plows and machinery. They did what they were told and worked extra long shifts. We should thank them for all their hard work.
It is the management that apparently did a bad job. And let’s remember this poorly handled storm was also done badly in other cities. New Britain was not the only one who did a bad job.
But, some did it well. The streets in West Hartford and Farmington were almost completely clear on Saturday.
To me that means it could have been done better. If contractors were hired before the storm began and we had extra plows on the streets, they could have been opened up to 24 hours earlier.
Instead of hiring contractors in advance, and there was plenty of warning, money was saved to waste on items such as a PR firm for the mayor and the hiring of his friends in his office.
Enough already. It is time for the Mayor to put resident safety first.
This storm is not one we will soon forget. I’m sure many will also remember it come November.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
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The City of New Haven has been so dependent on state and fed money and received it for so many years they thought no need to worry just keep up status as the handout city. And, why should the rest of the state have to support this New Haven welfare city with the worst of living conditions compared to other cities. It's also time to elect people in office here in New Britain who are more responsible not like the ones in there now, especially New Britain Mayor Phil Sherwood.
There are really only four simple problems in Ct. They are: Taxes, utilities, infrastructure, and political environment. The solutions are really not so simple. The sooner we stop electing the same people time and time again, and abandon the 2 party system and the ridicules allegiances, the sooner we can begin to make progress. Until then we are stagnate with no job growth here in yankee land of Connecticut..
Of course it is not true. Since when can you believe anything from the Sherwood administration?
I wonder if he was even competent at bagging groceries?
"Wal-Mart Wants To Be Your Neighborhood Grocer" unless you live in New Britain because the communists ran them out of here!
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