I'm Dreaming of a White... Day After Christmas.

As Mother Nature finishes her snowy beating on the northeast leaving beautiful scenery and chilled landscapes we all begin that most hated activity, shoveling.  And as the residents of Brick start to dig themselves out of their snow covered wonderland we can be sure that the roads of Brick are... STILL under a foot of snow.  Yes, yet again the current Brick Township administration has been caught unprepared for a snow storm they had plenty of warning about.  How many times do we have to go through this before the elected officials of Brick can figure out how to handle snow fall.  Last year we hear excuse after excuse about how the amounts of snow that fell where unlike anything we had seen and we could not be expected to have been prepared for such an event.  And now a year later we are hearing the same song and dance.  The Mayor was quoted today on the Brick Patch site as saying:

"The only thing we're doing now is pulling out other trucks," Acropolis said. "This isn't Buffalo. We're not used to 26 to 30 inch snowstorms with 30 mile an hour winds."

Did the Administration learn nothing from last year?  After years of laying off our trained public works employees there is no one to operate the heavy trucks forcing us to rely on a group of pickup trucks that are not designed to move such large amounts of snow, it is no wonder that every plow in the township is stuck in some snow drift.  Forcing residents to not only dig out their driveways but also much of their street to ensure they can get to work in the morning.   But don’t worry residents because our Mayor is on the trucks taking interviews posing for photos and slowing the process to a crawl, but I am sure it makes for a great political photo.

What’s next, if the Mayor gets his way and more public works employees lose their jobs to the privatization of garbage collection how long will it take the administration to clear the roads then? A week? A month?  Before you know it we will be paying for private snow removal.  Just another way for the administration to say they cut cost by jamming another bill in your mailbox.  Maybe if the Mayor didn’t spend so much of the taxpayer’s money on jobs for his political cronies, most notable the Belu raise, we would have the money to keep the proper equipment on the roads.  We need to call the Mayor and tell him no more, they have had far too many chances to get a snow removal plan in place that actually removes snow, a snow removal plan where "let it melt" is not the big idea.  Call the Mayor and tell him how disappointed you are tell them they need a plan that works or tell his assistant because the Mayor is probably in Toms River.