Nemo’s Graveyard
by | Feb 27, 2013 11:20 am | Comments (2)
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Nearly three weeks after he pummeled the city, Nemo’s bones lie piled up off Route 34, melting alternately in sun and rain.
Winter Storm Nemo
91% Showed Up
by | Feb 20, 2013 11:34 am | Comments (0)
After the school district canceled February break at the last minute to make up for lost snow days, student attendance remained high, school officials reported.
“They’re Done?”
by | Feb 18, 2013 5:36 pm | Comments (32)
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Alderwoman Robinson-Thorpe: “It’s unacceptable.”
In order to carry passengers down Goffe Terrace Monday, the Z3 bus had to swerve around a bank of unplowed snow, crossing the yellow lines into oncoming traffic.
The tight spot was one of dozens neighbors flagged as they called in complaints about narrow streets and high snow piles — questioning the city’s assertion that the post-blizzard cleanup is largely done.
Nemo’s Got Nothing On 1888
by | Feb 18, 2013 12:27 pm | Comments (16)
Courtesy Tyco Printing/New Haven Museum
“The department of the public works have over 100 teams at work removing snow from the streets to-day. … To-day the teams are at work in Chapel and Church streets. The city is paying $5 per day for double teams and $3 for single teams.”
No After-School Programs
by | Feb 15, 2013 4:59 pm | Comments (1)
School is still on next week, but after-school activities are off.
On The 8th Day They’ll Rest
by | Feb 15, 2013 4:59 pm | Comments (2)
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A snow sculpture built around a lamppost on the Green.
City crews plan to push through one more night of plowing before scaling back operations Saturday afternoon — unless another storm adds more snow this weekend.
Parking Ban Extended
by | Feb 15, 2013 1:37 pm | Comments (8)
City of New Haven
If you live in the shaded areas on the map, move your car Thursday and Friday nights.
(Updated: 4:45 p.m. Friday) With less than two hours’ notice, the city announced that Friday evening’s parking ban will extend to downtown streets.
Suspect Found
In Snow Bank
by | Feb 15, 2013 1:29 pm | Comments (1)
That wasn’t a snow man. It was a man man — a man who had allegedly attacked his wife on Valentine’s Day.
Now If New Haven Were Syracuse ...
by | Feb 15, 2013 12:39 pm | Comments (13)
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Eight tri-axle dump trucks lined up to help return Woodward Avenue to normalcy five days after Winter Storm Nemo buried it. In cities more accustomed to big blizzards, monster snow-removal vehicles might have arrived earlier — with plow “wings” on the side.
How Laydon Got It Done
by | Feb 15, 2013 9:09 am | Comments (7)
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When a 100-year blizzard dropped massive amounts of snow, the response had to be just as big: 35-ton payloaders designed for quarries, an army of round-the-clock workers from across the state, $750,000 of contract labor — and a mountain range rising on the East Shore.
Poets Plow Ahead
by | Feb 14, 2013 4:34 pm | Comments (0)
Outside, Nemo’s calling cards were piled high, tow trucks prowled with their winches and hooks at the ready, and the night sky over New Haven threatened three more inches of snow.
Inside a “stress free zone” on Court Street, Katie Yates took her seat on a shiny pine floor and read aloud about “the long intimacies of winter.”
Canceled School Vacation Sparks Uproar
by | Feb 14, 2013 3:53 pm | Comments (75)
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Top school officials confer at the Emergency Operations Center.
The decision to cancel February vacation next week prompted a flood of teacher complaints and a student petition drive Thursday, as school officials scrambled to work around people’s pre-planned vacation.
She Took My Shoveled Space
by | Feb 14, 2013 3:02 pm | Comments (18)
Nemo brought out the best in me — until I came home at 3 a.m. to find another car in the spot I spent four hours shoveling.
Elicker: Let’s Learn From Nemo
by | Feb 14, 2013 2:10 pm | Comments (13)
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Police dispatcher Teri Nelson & Elicker at the EOC.
New Haven hadn’t seen a storm like it for more than a century. The next one might come much sooner.
Knock, Knock
by | Feb 14, 2013 11:16 am | Comments (0)
The condemned home of the J. Press clothing store on York Street was closed. Still, someone was home.
201st Squadron Takes Plymouth Street
by | Feb 14, 2013 9:07 am | Comments (4)
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After days of feeling trapped by mounds of white snow, Hill neighbors witnessed a RED HORSE gallop to their rescue.
A “Brutal” Commute
by | Feb 13, 2013 1:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Route 34 at 10:08 a.m. Wednesday.
Benjamin Fontanez walked through Elm Street around an impassable sidewalk.
Black ice and narrow roads contributed to 22 accidents overnight, making a grueling commute for drivers, bus-riders and pedestrians returning downtown for the first time since the blizzard.
Storm Brings Inspectors To Church Street South
by | Feb 13, 2013 11:41 am | Comments (7)
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LCI’s Ramos pays a visit.
In a surprise post-blizzard visit to the Church Street South housing project, inspectors found 60 of 100 apartments in violation of the housing code.
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80 Tows Later, Main Roads Cleared
by | Feb 13, 2013 9:37 am | Comments (10)
As the oscillating lights of a police cruiser and the beams of a tow-truck neared, Tom Chan rushed out of his El Coqui Spanish Restaurant on Grand Avenue to find a $100 ticket on the windshield of his grey Nissan Frontier. His car was in the way of a push to clear main roads so New Haveners could return to work Wednesday.
Air National Guard En Route
by | Feb 12, 2013 8:53 pm | Comments (1)
In response to an “urgent” request from the mayor for more help digging out of Winter Storm Nemo, the National Guard is sending 24 troops from Pennsylvania to hit New Haven streets before dawn Wednesday.
J. Press Deemed “Unsafe”
by | Feb 12, 2013 8:02 pm | Comments (5)
Rizzo (far left) consults with City Engineer Dick Miller (far right) in the Emergency Operations Center.
A downtown clothing store was forced to shut its doors Tuesday, becoming the second building to take a serious hit from Winter Storm Nemo, according to city Building Official Andy Rizzo.
Shelter, From The Storm
by | Feb 12, 2013 5:26 pm | Comments (9)
As a payloader finally freed his street from impassable snow, Gary Lloyd got the chance to ask the man in charge of the plows the question on every New Havener’s mind: What took you so long?
Malloy: “This Is Climate Change”
by | Feb 12, 2013 2:42 pm | Comments (20)
The governor recognized what he saw in Fair Haven Tuesday: a warming planet.
Day Laborers Move The “Mountain”
by | Feb 12, 2013 12:17 pm | Comments (7)
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LCI’s Rafael Ramos joined the emergency shoveling crew.
Tenants Cornell Green Jr. & Sr.
Tenants at the Dwight Co-op Homes got to return to work Tuesday thanks to a crew of city-hired day laborers who came to the rescue with shovels.
"We've Got A
Dangerous Situation Here"
by | Feb 12, 2013 9:03 am | Comments (1)
(Updated) A metal rod meant to keep snowbanks on the roof starting falling itself from the roof of Yale’s Berkeley College thanks to Winter Storm Nemo.