Snowed Out-of-Business

There are more important things in Nova Scotia to complain about … ones that we can change. The weather isn’t one of them. Deal with it.

Oh, fuck you Alex, entitlement much? I’ll go on the assumption other businesses had the same issues ours had:The buses weren’t running right away. Automatically half the staff couldn’t get in. I barely made it since none of the sidewalks had been plowed(and are still not cleared). And ALL the damn roads are NOT plowed, South Park and Spring Garden weren’t up until well after 12, and at least one highway(in from Endfield) is a nightmare.

This isn’t whining…it’s completely unvalidated bullshit spewed forth from the mouth of someone who obviously has nothing better to do on a storm day than bitch and moan about the malls not being open. Do you, OP, even realize what the transit situation was like this morning? Probably not…since you most likely got to sleep in while the very employees you’re bitching about were left scrambling and stranded this morning, trying to get to your precious fucking shopping mall/grocery store/wtfever retail wonderland. Myself, I worked 12 hours overnight (non-retail), and on about an hour’s sleep because it was a last minute shift that I had to work…so when I was finished my shift at 10 this morning, I had no way home at ALL because none of the cab companies had cabs on the roads, so I waited patiently for a bus. I had to crawl through a snowbank approximately 3 feet deep and about 10 feet wide to get to the road where the bus stop would have been if it hadn’t of been completely buried, and when I got off at my stop to walk home, I was greeted by unplowed streets/sidewalks, therefore having to trudge my way through about 2-3 feet of snow to finally get home and collapse into bed. There were cars stuck in the snow everywhere…and right across the street from my building, a SNOW PLOW was stuck in the snow. Smell the irony in that one.So, OP, I guess what I’m trying to say is…shut the fuck up, and slither back under the fucking pedestal you seem to be perched on. Your individual retail spending habits are not worth the lives and safety of the employees of the stores you shop in.

Um, the fucking snow plow driver pushed the snow just about halfway up my street and left it in the middle of the road, blocking ANYONE from leaving our street, btw, I donot live right in halifax, need a bus or car to get to work intown. There were no buses running, for some/most people it didn’t matter wether they had snow tires or not, maybe they just couldn’t get there jerk. I went and got everything I needed, the night before, I paid attention to the weather warnings of snow and wind.

You know what? I live downtown, on Windsor St, which is a pretty busy road. I woke up on Saturday morning to get ready to go to work, I went outside and discovered that my road wasn’t yet plowed, my driveway wasn’t yet plowed, and the snow was drifted up past the windows of my car. I got my boots on and started shovelling, as I waited for my boss to make a decision on whether to open. The mall was closed, the buses were not running, and she still decided to open. A drive that normally would take me 25 minutes to Bayers Lake took me almost 2 hours, and you want to know why? Because when I finally did get out of my yard, I had to drive almost 20km/hour because of the unplowed state of the roads. A bus got wedged horizontally in front of me making a turn, and I got stuck in the middle of an intersection which was fairly dangerous considering that people were having a hard time stopping. I feared for my life for about 20 minutes. After that, I got stuck behind another car that got stuck on Lacewood Drive, again putting myself in a bad situation where I could have been hit easily. I am LUCKY that I made it to work at all, and even luckier that my coworkers from Tantallon and Waverley got there at all. It’s not about snow tires. It’s about giving the city TIME to properly plow the streets. Here’s a tip: if the police and emergency vehicles are telling you to stay off the roads, STAY OFF THE ROADS.