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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The city of Buffalo owns 36 snow plows. Buffalo gets an average of 90 inches of snow each year.

DC gets an average of 14 inches of snow each year. It owns *368* snowplows.

The city should be doing better. [/quote]

You seem to like to cite these numbers, but a quick google tells me that they are not even close to correct.[/quote]

Turns out you're bad at Google.

District Snow Team Deployment

The snow team will engage in a full deployment, consisting of more than 300 heavy and light plows. Heavy plows (six- and 10-wheel dump trucks) treat highways, streets, bridges, ramps, and other elevated structures, and light plows (pick-up trucks) treat smaller streets.

https://dmped.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-%C2%A0deploy-district-snow-team%C2%A0ahead-%C2%A0major%C2%A0winter-storm-and-extreme-cold[/quote]

There are many key words you have conveniently left out. Look at how many they own. Also, look into how many Buffalo owns and how many additional pieces they utilize.  [/quote]

I don't know what this word salad is supposed to mean, but the DC government loves to brag about how much equipment and people they have to remove snow, and you have to admit, it's a lot, especially for a city that doesn't get all that much snow in the first place.

"Mayor Bowser will deploy the District Snow Team several hours before a storm starts so team members will be in place, ready to work when snow falls. How many resources – people, equipment and supplies – are involved will match the storm’s predicted intensity. The Snow Team treats highways, commercial streets and residential streets simultaneously.

When the snow team is at its full strength, more than 800 people and more than 500 plows (including municipal plows as well as contractors’ plows and rental plows) will be working, divided into 12-hour shifts for the duration. All team members – plow drivers, front-end loader operators, salt dome monitors, command center staff, administrative staff and technology staff – have been trained in their specialties."
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Are you implying that 800 people aren’t working? They are ineffective? Do you have any evidence of ineffective work other than “my alley hasn’t been cleared yet”? Or perhaps it’s evidence that despite 800 people working round the clock it’s still a hard city to clear of snow and ice?[/quote]

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