By GERALD NEILY

While the official advice is always to stay home if you can during a snowstorm like the one Baltimore just experienced, the city government wanted thousands of people to take to the roads. Technically.

Everyone parked on the city’s vast network of snow emergency routes faced the threat of being ticketed and towed (as per the sign shown above.) And if the City tows away one of them, they really need to tow them all.

They’re all common criminals, just like the people who rip labels off pillows.

It’s all part of the City’s Phase Two Snow Emergency Plan. The official advice is to drive to the nearest plowed school parking lot, but in inner city neighborhoods such as Butchers Hill, that was not a practical option. In most such neighborhoods, there’s no place else to park nearby, so you just need to drive around endlessly, beating down the snow that hasn’t been plowed.

Phase Two was lifted on Monday, along with the Sword of Damocles, but the snow remains.

How good a job did the city plowing your street, and did it require towing you or your neighbors off to the impoundment lot?