Here's photos of the Capitol Hill neighborhood after round two of the storm!
Round two (round one was before Christmas, as if you could forget) began around 11 a.m. Thursday.
In these photos, it's Friday morning, and it looks like at least a light vehicle with a blade came through on 9th Street on Thursday night, even if the plows didn't make it. Lots of people were out shoveling the sidewalks Friday morning, early, so the sidewalks were good.
Mayor Hickenlooper enacted the snow emergency routes, which meant no parking on those streets or you could be ticketed and towed. But the mayor, who made part of his campaign for office a pledge to lower parking meter rates (and he did!), and the city didn't ticket anyone and only three cars were towed. The mayor said most people complied with the snow route thing. Although, I have to say there were lots of cars still on Logan, even right under the snow route sign. Bill Vidal with Public Works though says city officials decided to be flexible with ticketing and towing when they saw many snow route signs were all covered up by snow. They only towed when they absolutely had to, to get the plows in, and the cars were only towed a short distance.
As of yesterday, Vidal was saying an estimated 45 percent of neighborhood streets had not had a heavy plow come through to break through ice -- in some cases as thick as 10 inches! -- left over from the last storm, so that's why the Mayfair and Baker neighborhoods looked like maybe nothing had been through yet.
Next priority:
_ Digging out neighborhoods
_ Parking areas for commercial , small businesses so they can get some business back and be ready for New Year's Eve
