Stormy response from City crews

Published 3:57 pm Wednesday, January 25, 2012

I want to comment about how ill-equipped the City of Auburn is in an emergency. How would the City’s Emergency Management Division handle a devastating earthquake when they can’t even handle a snow/ice storm?

It’s quite pathetic when people can’t even get out of their homes because there isn’t the revenue to pay for snow plows and the manpower to run those plows. And, if you’re unfortunate enough to be a Comcast customer, who by the way contracts with the City of Auburn, and you bundle your service, you had no landline telephone.

The assumption that we taxpayers are so limited and dense to city politics is insulting. The mayor and City Council’s actions are absurd, impudent, obnoxious and an insult to our intelligence.

Thanks to PSE for getting to us as quickly as they did. They had a tough job, but some summer maintenance wouldn’t hurt. And thanks to the new Herfy’s and Food Mart on Lea Hill for being open when restaurants in Auburn were closed. And, last but not least, a big thank you to my neighbors, Peggy and Steve, for thinking of us older neighbors and picking up hot take-out food and hot coffee for us the day of the ice storm and hot coffee the next day.

– Jeanne Herold