LETTERS

SNOW STORM

Response by the city was poor

I live in Redmond, on Education Hill (on 164th Ave Northeast between Northeast 95th Street and Northeast 99th Street).

In past years we have felt fairly safe during storms.

Although our street is never plowed it is level enough that we can usually get out of our neighborhood onto 166th Avenue Northeast which is a big arterial in Redmond and is plowed.

Well with the recent snow storm, Redmond reached a new low.

For the few times we had to go out, I put chains on my car, just to get out of our neighborhood, assuming once I got to 166th Avenue Northeast, all would be clear and plowed.

Well, it was plowed, but it was far from clear. All of downtown Redmond looked awful. There were 2-3 inches of packed snow/ice at the bottom of deep ruts in the snow.

I could tell it was that deep because occasionally there would be breaks in the ice, like a pothole in an old dirt road, where a chunk of ice had broken out.

I saw plows driving by, but my car with chains was moving as much, if not more snow, than them.

It was almost an insult to see them driving around wasting my taxpayer dollars and effectively doing nothing.

Grant Richins

Redmond

SNOW STORM

Thanks for clearing my driveway

I want to give a big-league rant for the driver of the snow plow who so nicely did our streets but threw a 2-foot-plus berm across our shared driveway.

Had this old, disabled guy not owned a gas-guzzling four-wheel-drive pick-up, we’d probably have been property-bound for much longer.

However, two days later, the berm was gone? Thanks, according to a neighbor, to a good samaritan who drove by in a bobcat clearing the drives of everyone on the street.

To this good fellow, a hearty rave of thanks.

George Crotts

Redmond