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Side streets look for plows

Patience is wearing thin with some in Baltimore, still looking for city crews to clear their street after a snowstorm that set a one-day accumulation record

Above: How Berry Street, in Hampden looked yesterday – still unplowed, like many secondary streets in Baltimore today.

Hearing from city officials that half of Baltimore’s local streets were plowed last night was cold comfort to the other half.

Still submerged under more than two feet of snow and needing to get to work, to the store or just out of the house, people inundated 311 with requests for plowing.

“High snow and ice!” said a resident of Nottingham Road in Edmondson Village this morning.

“48 hours and no snowplow???” someone on Chesley Avenue in Northeast Baltimore protested.

It wasn’t just the side streets either.

“Belair Road not plowed, Broadway not plowed,” someone else complained this morning.

“Please plow,” came a request from South Baltimore. “Citizens can’t leave houses with Patapsco st and Harden Court both unplowed.”

Without a plow-out today, a woman who works at a nursing home worried she could lose her job. She stayed home today, but her bosses, noting that some workers had remained on the job since Friday, “weren’t pleased.” she explained her situation on Facebook.

“I couldn’t drive down my street and my car is parked on Harford Road,” she wrote.

“I couldn’t bear the walk to my car today because it took me 40 minutes to walk from my car to my house last night which was only 4 blocks,” she said. “Is Chesley Ave. 21234 and Kildaire Ave. going to get plowed at all? I can’t call out of work tomorrow.”

Looking to see whether the city will improve on its poor performance during the 2010 “Snowmageddon” storm, the Baltimore Elections Facebook asked readers: “Has your city street seen a city plow come through yet?”

The answers as of this morning:

Yes: 100
No: 68
They do not plow my street ever: 24

City Asks for Patience

City officials asked for patience as crews worked to remove the biggest single-day snowfall ever recorded in Baltimore. A Phase II Snow Emergency remained in effect, meaning only cars with snow tires may be on the roads.

With schools, non-essential city government and many businesses closed today, officials were asking for people to stay off the roads if possible.

Here’s some of what Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was saying on Twitter.

“5K of rds +3,5K miles smaller neighborhood sts/snow removal complicated/have 2 lift snow into dump trucks & carry out

Baltimore DOT Tweeted this photo, warning, they are still towing cars parked in Snow Emergency Routes.

Baltimore DOT Tweeted this photo, warning, they are still towing cars parked in Snow Emergency Routes.

The mayor was scheduled to provide an update this morning at 11 a.m.

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