Public works manual
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Book of business lists
The biggest selling item during the winter of 1993-94 was the Snow-Way Snowplow. Its transparent Lexan plow blade allows for greater visibility and has ...

Better roads
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Proceedings of the annual convention
SNOW PLOWS. Rotary snow plows are necessary for quick removal of snow where the depth of the drift exceeds six feet and its length exceeds three hundred ...

Proceedings of the American Railway Engineering Association
SNOW PLOWS. Rotary snow plows are necessary for quick removal of snow where the depth of the drift exceeds six (6) ft. and its length exceeds three hundred ...

Snow plowing costs way down

Minnesota's snow plows are getting a break this winter. Although there's been some significant moisture in the last couple of weeks, the season's still memorable for how little precipitation there's been.

State Department of Transportation officials say through the end of December they spent about $14 million on snow removal. That's less than half the $32 million cost for the same period a year ago, when spending set a record.

In central Minnesota, Kandiyohi County has spent at most $25,000 this winter on plowing costs, compared to more than $500,000 by this time last year.

Even northern Minnesota is seeing some historic snow deficits. In Roseau County neare the U.S. border with Canada, county highway engineer Brian Ketring said while there's white on the ground, "you can see the grass poking through."

Ketring said county snow plows have been out on the roads only two or three days this winter. He said one longtime resident told him the last time he saw this little snow was 71 years ago, in 1941.

Source: Minnesota Public Radio

Umbrellagate: Overblown | PubliCola - Seattle's News Elixir

by Erica C. Barnett

A number of folks in the media have honed in on the Seattle Department of Transportation’s latest pedestrian-safety project, which includes the distribution of colorful umbrellas to patrons of downtown businesses—the aim of which, according to SDOT, is to make pedestrians more visible to drivers in crosswalks on dark, rainy winter days.

Their concerns are overblown and based on a misunderstanding of what the program is about. Culprit No. 1: Crosscut’s Knute Berger , whose argument boils down, basically, to “snowplows are better than umbrellas.” (Ahem, better than an “umbrella boondoggle.”)

Here’s the crux of Berger’s argument:

There’s always cause to nitpick government spending, but is now really the time for Seattle’s Department of Transportation to spend nearly $50,000 on an ad campaign for pedestrian safety, a campaign that includes handing out brightly colored umbrellas to holiday shoppers? Couldn’t that money be saved? Or how about clearing a few more streets next time it snows? [...]

Sand, salt, snowplows, preparedness: much more important than an umbrella campaign.

I’ll take each of Berger’s two points in turn. First, the $47,000 SDOT is spending is largely for an ad campaign, not “an umbrella campaign”—indeed, less than 10 percent of the money, or about $5,000, will pay to buy umbrellas. The rest, according to SDOT spokesman Rick Sheridan, will pay for pedestrian-safety campaign events; ads on buses, posters, stickers, and displays for merchants; and a survey to see how well the program is working.

Second, it’s easy to play Monday-morning budget writer. (Hey. I know. Let’s  close dog parks a couple of days a week . That’d be a great way to come up with money for more snow plows.) But how much snow response would that $47,000 actually buy the city? According to SDOT’s street maintenance division, about eight hours—a year. It’s pretty hard to imagine the drivers who throw an epic tantrum every time it snows being satisfied with such a minuscule addition to the city’s snow-plowing capabilities.

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Red Moon Rising | Page 191

by Kyethn

Dahhh, it’s 2am on Saturday here, this might be my worst Thursday update ever. Sit down and let me spin you a small yarn.

Basically I got caught out by the snow – I did some much needed food shopping, stopped at a friends, waited for the snow to stop, and whaddaya know, it didn’t until it was way too dark to be a good idea.

That was on Thursday, made it back to my flat Friday afternoon and had to spend most of the day boarding up my window with cardboard and duct tape in order to make my bedroom warm enough to sit down comfortably in for eight hours so I could get the page finished. I had been working on my laptop in our living room before, but I left my power cable at said friend’s place because I’m good like that, necessitating the window redecorating. So, mainly “screw you snow” with a dash of “I’m an idiot” for good measure.

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“it was way too dark to be a good idea.”

Yeaaah… because aaall the gangsters, rapists and kidnappers enjoy waiting in a snowstorm at night, since there’s so many pray around at those moments…

But tough luck with having to insulate your windows. Those are the moments you really start to love your double-glased, insulated windows. I hope you have it somehow warm by now.

More like, it’s much easier to slip and have an accident when it’s dark. Last time the weather was like this I fell and broke my wrist and that was in broad daylight, so I’d really, really rather not run the risk if I don’t have to. Still pretty cold in here if I’m being honest, not entirely convinced padding up the windows did a lot of good. Mine are double glazed too, but I guess that just isn’t enough in this weather.

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Snow emergencies declared around metro

Pioneer Press - Dec 04, 2010

With nearly a foot of snow in some corners of the Twin Cities metro, the snow plows are on their way to clear the roads. Minneapolis: Beginning at 9 pm

Four children hit by snow plow truck in Wyoming

WZZM - Dec 02, 2010

The children were on their way home from school. The accident happened just before 12:30 pm Thursday. The four children had a half day of school and were

Business owner wanted snow plows, got umbrellas

KING5.com - Dec 02, 2010

more visible to drivers. by LINDA BRILL / KING 5 News Do you think Seattle should have found a way to use the umbrella campaign money on snow plows?

First heavy snowfall on its way

Chicago Sun-Times - Dec 04, 2010

The Illinois Tollway will be mobilizing its full fleet of 183 snow plows in preparation for the storm, according to a release. To assist snow removal

Snowfall Calamity, Traffic Collapse. It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

Wall Street Journal (blog) - Dec 02, 2010

When the snow is going to fall, and various public works departments know it in advance, one would expect their snow plows at the ready, then plowing until