New Jersey's top, ineffectual bureaucrats enjoyed being on camera and patting one another on the back for a job well done for January 26th's reputed snow/sleet/ice removal, but what they claim goes contrary to the truth.
Oh, I do realize that some municipalities did an exemplary job clearing their prime roads and even their side streets, but if any salt was dropped from trucks in the Trenton, it was minimal at best. One knows that specific look of salt on the roads after a snow/ice storm, and if major passages were cleared, it was only due to the natural flow of traffic.
It's a week after the fact and by golly, each and every side street I can see--and I've seen many during my walks and drives--is still bumpy and mound-laden. Try to walk or drive down any of them; you can't without extreme risk to your well being.
My heart goes out to the elderly and disabled, who've been restricted from making/keeping medical appointments or taking casual journeys for basic necessities, all because the governmental hotshots were more concerned with a photo op than honest results. (Standing next to a monitor and watching the snow pile is nothing to brag about. Any schmo can acknowledge that sleet is spitting from the sky.)
For those of us who pay taxes up the wazoo, the bureaucratic claims of success have made us all the more jaded. Our "illustrious" leaders can pat themselves on the back, but they've failed us yet again, and so in the immortal words of the beleaguered George Taylor, I must point my finger and decry, "God damn you all to Hell!"
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