Posted by Billy NY on December 30, 2010 at 17:03:43 from (74.67.3.54):
In Reply to: NYC storm update posted by JayinNY on December 30, 2010 at 16:32:20:
It's a mess when it snows in the 5 boroughs, maybe more so in Manhattan. Every sanitation truck or just about is equipped with a snow plow, they are dispersed strategically through out the city. When the snow piles up, there is no room, it just encroaches on everything. I do recall a nice one in Feb. 1996, I was working in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on a high rise nursing home, the area was impassable due to blizzard conditions and snow accumulations not seen very often, the place was shut down for awhile. Significant weather events can and do wreak havoc, rain, snow and high winds/hurricanes, even severe thunderstorms, I experienced all of these things in the years I worked there, definitely no fun in addition to these weather events increasing the elements of danger of just being there.
I was 2 blocks over from a crane that toppled, the morning after Hurricane Floyd passed through, I had just completed a foundation for a high rise on 9th avenue, observing that the drainage worked so well, considering the amount of rain, just south of the Harriman/Woodbury toll plaza on the NYS thruway, there was literally 2 lakes on each side of the thruway, in all the years I have traveled that road, I have never seen or thought it even possible. It was a Manitowoc 4100 or 777, set up with a lattice type mast and a big ole luffing jib, on a 30 story residential building on 6th ave, Turner Const., they lowered and secured the jib, the operating engineer erroneously powered it up with the tiebacks in place, it literally pulled the mast over, collapsing onto the street, a local 608 carpenter saw it coming, pushed a woman out of its path, only to get himself caught in the wreckage, what a mess for JF Lomma/ NY Crane, the noise was horrendus, I could not believe what I saw when I got over there.
All things considered, it can be a precarious place to live, work or visit on a good day, add snow, and or labor issues with city employees, forget it, you should have seen the garbage Aug 15th 2003 right after the blackout, which followed some kind of sanitation labor problem, they can create quite the mess by not working, that is for sure.
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