The rather heavy dose of winter weather timed as it has been over the Christmas and New Year’s period has seemingly stretched the limits of endurance of both the city and its residents.
As the snow piled, the streets iced over and the side streets went unplowed, Rupertites tried to cope as best they could to the unusual circumstances that they found themselves in.
The string of storms falling when they did, coincided with Christmas holidays, no doubt leaving the city short staffed to handle the volume of work that piled up on city streets…
(from the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … 6198433302 )-