2024 Nor'easter in Rome, New York.
Channel: Going Somewhere
Date: 2024-01-08

A puny storm. Do love when the convoy of plows are on the roads. DPW crew to the rescue. Most of the snow was delivered within a couple hours. Quick accumulation. Maybe a total of ten inches. Winds were not as severe as meteorologists predicted, but that's gonna change come Tuesday. 
What boggles-my-mind(and others), is why the city of Rome, New York, refuses to have some of the plows(or a couple), plow the primary roads, and there is five of them Mayor Lanigan, not including the Erie Boulevard East, over the Barge Canal. When snow begins accumulating, it needs to be...removed. What's the problem? City Hall, refuses to pay a little overtime for Public Safety? First Responders, are gonna take a while getting to any address, within the city. Keeping Primary roads clear, improves the response time in Winter weather. But. Nothing changes. New mayor. Same Politics. And this has been going-on every Winter for over fifty years. A change would be nice. Not a good start to Mayor Lanigan's oblivious administration.
And anyone notice that the first snow storm of every Winter, never has a "Snow emergency," tagged-to-it? Plenty of cars still parked in the roads after midnight. Plenty of people still gotta drive in a Winter storm, when they have no need to do so. 
Thankfully the storm was not on a Sunday or a Monday, as the Snowflake officials would cancel school. I remember watching the school bus in the 1980's plow through a foot of snow, several Winter mornings.
Oh. One more thing:  The snow, is not going to be around for very long. Mild air, and lots of rain is in the forecast for Tuesday through Saturday. Might receive some creek & river flooding courtesy of Mother Nature.