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Thought experiment: How many able-bodied people are there in NYC? Let's say 2 million. If each of them had shoveled snow for 15 minutes with a snow shovel (w
by patrickgzill 16y ago
Thought experiment:
How many able-bodied people are there in NYC? Let's say 2 million.
If each of them had shoveled snow for 15 minutes with a snow shovel (working in shifts, let's say, as there are not 2 million snow shovels) just in the area they personally were affected by, how effective would that have been vs. what happened?
- locopati 16y agoIt sounds good until you ask 'where are they going to put all that snow'? Can't put it on the sidewalks, cars are parked on the sides of the roads. The process of getting rid of that much snow in NYC involves industrial snow melting machines, the sewer system, the rivers, and coordination of trucks. Not so simple as getting together and shovelling out.
- spullara 16y agoGenerally they do just plow it into the cars / sidewalk / curb in the cities I've lived in (like Chicago).
- patrickgzill 16y agoI was actually talking about a relative level of effectiveness - surely doing some shoveling even without snow melting, etc. would have resulted in something better (not "completely fixed") ...