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One would’ve thought that New York City, one of the richest cities in the world, would have a better plan for snow than this. A city with an annual budget of about $116 billion, sitting inside an economy worth over $2 trillion, and this is the best we can do? They roll out these clumsy garbage trucks that do nothing but shove the snow further into the streets and right back onto parking spots and the sidewalks, straight into people. You can barely walk anywhere. Driving is a battle between your steering wheel and your tires. Corners are completely buried, crosswalks are a invisible, and every block feels like an obstacle course. And it's not like this has to happen during rush hour. Shut down a few streets at a time in the middle of the night. Push all the snow into the middle. Bring tractors, load it into dump trucks, and take it away. People are sleeping. Traffic is low. This isn't a unsolvable problem. What makes it even more embarrassing is that cities like Montreal and Toronto do this all the time. they have heavy snow all the time, and they actually remove it. The snow disappears. And life goes on. Meanwhile New York City gets one serious storm and now the city is basically paralyzed for weeks, like this is a once in a century event. With this much money, this much manpower, and this much experience dealing with winter, there is no excuse for leaving mountains of dirty snow everywhere and calling it a day. This doesn't feel like bad weather. It feels like a city that stopped expecting competence from itself.