This is a video and some pic's taken during the Blizzard of 2010. If there was any type of slow down iam pretty sure these guys didnt get the memo because you can see their hard at work. Blizzard came down fast and by the time Sanitation truck went down one side of the street or high way on the other side cars were stuck on and vice versa. After a few hours into the blizzard Sanitation trucks were now stuck themselves. The biggest Problem was the plows on the trucks was set up to prevent snow and ice from shooting upward and from damaging cars and property but made them weaker which cause the plows to trip and not plow the snow properly. Now you combine that with large amout of snow and small chains and you get "city-wide" trucks getting stuck. This Sanitation worker got stuck for 8 hours the first night of plowing and 5 hour the second night. They attempted to get him out the first 4 hours but the Front end loader got stuck , they had to get another front end loader to get the first one out, then they came came back 4 hours later to get him out. Not that they when to Coop or sleep or slow down , it was cause they had to get other trucks who was stuck but easier to get out.
people dont realize how bad it was unless they were dumb enough to go out and get stuck in it. The rest criticized from the couch. Q1 had 11 trucks , 2 wreckers and 1 FEL stuck on the first night. Didnt help that astoria had 200 cabs stuck all over the neighborhood that we got stuck behind . Slow down ? If we slowed down , they'd wouldve waited till june for all that snow to be gone. this video shows it perfectly
enterboom 3 months ago
excellent video:: first pic is great!
dsny11 3 months ago
So now this is the truth.... DSNY ROCKSSS
JRC0930 1 year ago