Friday, December 7, 2007

Side Benefits

Living on a side street off of a not too important primary street means we have never seen a snow plow within a half mile of our house. However, that changed today.
Shaunn has a home nurse, and she shared with him that if a street has a disabled person living on it, with certain other qualifying criteria(housebound, home care), the city has 48 hours to plow that road after a major snowfall, so that the docs and emergency services can get there in an emergency.
So, armed with this knowledge, he called the mayor's action line. And within 2 hours, our street had been plowed and salted. So long, sheets of ice!

2 comments:

kelmeister said...

So then what we need to do is get a sled and some dogs, and then next time it snows real hard we hook the dogs up to the sled, come over to your house and grab Shaunn, bring him back here, and then call the city and viola street cleaned? AWESOME.

Unknown said...

I think that's how it works...btw, all city council members are on permanent disability status for just this purpose.