Batten em down!

[Red Arrow]

The town where I was a kid (Near Philly, PA) had plows on all sorts of trucks.  I remember seeing a plow on a trash truck.

[guido911]

Nope, they're still closed

http://www.bixbyps.org/education/district/district.php?sectionid=1

I went to KRMG's page and Bixby was not listed.

[guido911]

I remember seeing a plow on a trash truck.

I saw that up in my small town in Illinois. How bad is southern Bixby?

[ZYX]

You haven't been in some of the older Bixby schools if you're not worried about the roof caving in. The new schools are really nice. The older ones not so much.

[Townsend]

You haven't been in some of the older Bixby schools.

You are correct sir.

[bmuscotty]

I was forced to venture out last Friday to run an errand over near 61st and Mingo. Decided the route with the least hills was to take the Creek Turnpike. Had to laugh when the 2 most clear patches of road I drove on the entire trip were the on and off ramps to the turnpike around the toll booths off Riverside.

[Red Arrow]

I saw that up in my small town in Illinois. How bad is southern Bixby?

I haven't even been as far south as 121st.

[guido911]

Huzzah!! UPS is running. I got my trigger mounted red laser sight.

[patric]

On the good side, were the neighbors that were walking up and down helping push people stuck in the residental street by day.
On the bad side was (possibly a different neighbor) an ATV late Sunday night racing around the neighborhood and trying to force people into snow banks and ditches.  The two I saw on one ATV tried it twice as I was driving home late from work, first failing in a head-on run, then wheeling about to try and overtake my driver side.

Mad Max on Ice.  My truck could have crushed them, but I suspect they were artificially invincible. 

[nathanm]

My whole point is that if my kids' school and its families can tough it out, why can't Jenks or Union? Heck, as I wrote in another thread, I have had no mail delivery and trash pick up since the snow came down. It's like this whole area doesn't know what to do when bad weather comes.

Ask Holland Hall why they're endangering their kids? We simply don't have the equipment that cities that regularly see 18 inches of snow in a week do. Hell, a lot of northern cities have trouble when as much comes down at once as did last week. Sure, not for as long, but they have two or three times the snow-clearing equipment.

By the way, I've been getting mail since Saturday and I got a trash pickup today, so I missed exactly one trash pickup (Thursday) and 3 days (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday) of mail. I don't think there's much to complain about there. It's not like UPS or FedEx have been running with no delays, either (UPS was delivering packages on Saturday to try to catch up). People are still getting stuck left and right in my neighborhood, even in FWD vehicles.

[guido911]

Ask Holland Hall why they're endangering their kids? We simply don't have the equipment that cities that regularly see 18 inches of snow in a week do. Hell, a lot of northern cities have trouble when as much comes down at once as did last week. Sure, not for as long, but they have two or three times the snow-clearing equipment.

By the way, I've been getting mail since Saturday and I got a trash pickup today, so I missed exactly one trash pickup (Thursday) and 3 days (Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday) of mail. I don't think there's much to complain about there. It's not like UPS or FedEx have been running with no delays, either (UPS was delivering packages on Saturday to try to catch up). People are still getting stuck left and right in my neighborhood, even in FWD vehicles.

Have you been down south of 81st st. since this storm hit?

As for services, no mail since last Monday (Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., and Sat.) and missed 2 trash pick ups. As for my trash collection service, I am probably going to terminate my contract with them.

[custosnox]

My whole point is that if my kids' school and its families can tough it out, why can't Jenks or Union? Heck, as I wrote in another thread, I have had no mail delivery and trash pick up since the snow came down. It's like this whole area doesn't know what to do when bad weather comes.

As I pointed out on the previous comment, many families in public schools rely on the bus for transportation. Would you really trust the bus drivers in our school systems to drive your kids around town?

[nathanm]

Have you been down south of 81st st. since this storm hit?

Actually, yes. I was as far south as 91st on Thursday. I happened to drive past Holland Hall, actually. That's how I know they already had their drive plowed.  

The farthest south I've been since then was 61st this morning, though. If it'll make you feel better, I'll drive by Holland Hall again later..it's only a couple of miles out of my way, after all.

I guess I just don't understand what exactly it is you're complaining about? Your crappy trash hauler? The mail service in Bixby? The fact that it took a day and a half after the snow stopped to make CoT's arterials passable?

(I was mistaken, btw, I got no mail on Tuesday, so it was 4 days)

Tuesday:


Thursday:


I don't have a pic of 11th on Wednesday night, unfortunately. By that point they had a lane and a half clear.

[Townsend]

I guess I just don't understand what exactly it is you're complaining about? Your crappy trash hauler? The mail service in Bixby? The fact that it took a day and a half after the snow stopped to make CoT's arterials passable?

...that nathanm's cruising Holland Hall?

[guido911]

Actually, yes. I was as far south as 91st on Thursday. I happened to drive past Holland Hall, actually. That's how I know they already had their drive plowed.  

The farthest south I've been since then was 61st this morning, though. If it'll make you feel better, I'll drive by Holland Hall again later..it's only a couple of miles out of my way, after all.

I guess I just don't understand what exactly it is you're complaining about? Your crappy trash hauler? The mail service in Bixby? The fact that it took a day and a half after the snow stopped to make CoT's arterials passable?

Then you should know that my kids' lives were not endangered by going to school. Neither would the lives of kids going to Jenks and Bixby. I am middle aged (not an old fuddy whatever by any means). But I guess I am from the old school that snow should not result in a free week's vacation for the kids and public employees (I see on social networks numerous teachers celebrating snow days). I cannot recall ever having more than three snow days in a row off of school when I was a kid. How about you Red? joeie?

As for driving by HH, I advise you not to do so between 2:30-3:30. It will be a clusterf**k of mammoth proportions.

CUST:  I have no experience with school bus drivers, or their driving issues, as I don't have any use for buses. But if they are that bad, why do parent's allow their kids to get on board in good weather? Are these parents not endangering their safety by exposing them to a known risk?