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Snow response: Worse than we thought?

By swolff - Posted on 29 April 2009

Politics | Snow response: Worse than we thought? | Seattle Times Newspaper

 

....The Times' investigation showed the city rarely used all 27 of its plows at once, even after heavy snowfall.

The man calling the shots — street-maintenance director Paul Jackson Jr. — had no experience directing a major snowstorm response when storms rolled over the city.

Over two weeks, he orchestrated a disjointed response to the storms that found snowplow drivers hop-scotching around the city to help less experienced drivers and fill special requests, according to thousands of department records reviewed by The Times. 

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