Eye on the Sleet
Decatur Metro | January 14, 2011
Where is this?
Where is this?
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My driveway, top of my car. We got s lot of snow…
“Eye on the Sleet”– eh, hee-hee-hee! Corny, but a good’un!
Someone else suggested it in the “Ice on the Street” post yesterday. I’m all for as many puns as we can get out of this storm as possible!
My 10 year old son thinks this is Decatur Cemetery.
Nope!
outside the old courthouse on the square?
I don’t particularly like the title. Due to the fact that Dekalb county has no idea how to deal with this weather. I am a transplant from Pittsburgh, and I have never dealt with such recklessness that this county has dealt with a winter storm. What does the county do with all of its reserve money? Because it wasn’t ready…it cost many businesses and employees alot of money.
“What does the county do with all of its reserve money?”
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What reserve money? Last I checked, there weren’t too many counties anywhere in the nation with reserve money. The sudden and dramatic decrease in home values, coupled with buisiness closings and high unemployment, have reduced tax revenues to the point that there is no reserve money.
It is probably common in Pittsburgh to spend county tax revenues on snow/ice management. That makes sense, as the weather there warrants those expenditures. North Georgia, on the other hand, sees this weather only occasionally, and chooses to spend its money on things that affect us more often (e.g. drought, water management).
I’m not saying the county doesn’t waste money…I’m pretty confident it does. But to expect there to be reserves set aside for once-in-a-decade events is unreasonable.
Well said Token. Does that mean that snow management is a major contributing factor to higher taxes in Northern municipalities? It sorta sounds like a dumb question, but I may have just put two and two together.
Don’t know about relative contribution to taxes, but snow management has to have a substantial cost. My memory of living in places where snow on the ground is the norm, not the exception, for 6 months a year, is that one routinely wakes up in the wee hours to hear the sand trucks methodically covering all the roads–all of them, not just the state highways. And for a big accumulation of snow, the plows go out too. Even apart from the initial investment of trucks and equipment, the manpower, maintenance, and materials have to be a constant substantial cost. And snow management isn’t a nicety or emergency response activity, but a constant requirement to keep routine business and daily life going. From a homeowner’s point of view, there’s costs too. Many folks, especially the elderly or those with 80 hour work weeks, hire a snowplow service to come plow their driveway, just like some folks here have a yard service. Income levels and taxes probably affect snow management. I’m sure that Greenwich, Connecticut clears its roads quickly and deals with accumulations so everything looks white and pretty and Winslow Homerish. Meanwhile, I’ve seen old snow in Spanish Harlem that had been there so long that it was literally black and toxic-looking.
Marker given to city by DHS during the bicentennial located at the courthouse
SHAM is correct!
FYI I am a stay at home mom not stay home at mom! Lol
I’m with the outside the courthouse group on this one.
me, too. and it didn’t need to be cleared by Decatur, DeKalb County or the City of Pittsburgh!