Snow in Pittsburgh
I live in Penn Township, Butler County. Picture this: 2 inches of snow on my 1,000 foot driveway, with 5 foot high shoveled snow on both sides, 25 inches of pristine snow every where else, on the side of my yard. The perfectly clear roads in the Township, with the plowed piles of snow approximately 5 feet high on both sides of route 8. The back roads through Middle Sex, Richland, Hampton, Shaler and even Millvale were all clear with the same senerio. I cross over the 40 th Street Bridge and I had to engage my 4 wheel drive. What’s wrong with this picture?
The 2 winter blasts have been nothing less than a report card on The Pittsburgh Mayor, Luke Ravenstaal or is it the Public Works Department, trying to make him look bad? What a disgrace! When you can go several miles into the City of Pittsburgh and notice the debauchery of tax dollars going to waste. All I saw in the City of Pittsburgh were plow trucks hiding out on roads taking breaks or riding down the main streets with their plows up. While I was growing up, I never remembered our roads to be as poorly attended, as they are now. Is this a “STRIKE”, you might say by the Government workers protesting our Mayor and making him look bad, or is it, he is a LITTLE DOG buried under the snow, in a Major City, with no experience in handling the workers, to show him the respect that a Mayor should have?
He looks real good when he can go to all the major games, or “hang out” with famous Actors or Actresses, (with tax money), but when it comes to a “REAL JOB” can he hang with the big dogs? I was watching the news last evening, February 9th, The Police and the Firemen (most, older than our Mayor) were out, digging people out of there neighborhoods while our Mayor was watching monitors, in make shift offices, staying warm and toasty with his arms folded. The only reason I made a quick look was because a Television Reporter on Channel 11 News, stated “look at our Mayor hard at work”, while only 2 minutes later it showed the Police and Firemen hard at work helping needy folks left stranded. Does the Reporter need an award, for giving us a biased look, while with our own eyes, he’s standing there doing nothing? (Shame on you Darieth). He made many promises, about all the City neighborhoods to be attended to, before the second storm, only to come up short, AGAIN. I have to give the SLOW LANE AWARD, to the Pittsburgh Public Works Department, Channel 11 news, and to the Pittsburgh Mayor, Luke Ravenstaal, or should I just hand them all a shovels?
