I was in Wichita, Kansas once. An inch of snow the previous winter had paralyzed them for a week, for the same reasons.
Ottawa's snow clearing budget is over $60 million a year, and was overspent for 2007 and 2008. That's about half of the total "surface operations" budget, twice the library budget, and about one-and-a-half times the garbage budget.
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In Ottawa, six more weeks of winter is an early spring!
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Date: 2009-02-02 05:04 pm (UTC)Ottawa's snow clearing budget is over $60 million a year, and was overspent for 2007 and 2008. That's about half of the total "surface operations" budget, twice the library budget, and about one-and-a-half times the garbage budget.
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In Ottawa, six more weeks of winter is an early spring!