Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan raybs Costin's video.
Speaker 2: The byther Way. For those of you who are not
Speaker 2: watching the the Four Nations Final, I'll give you an
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Speaker 2: us here on Nightside. I want to talk this hour
Speaker 2: and I will look. I am looking for people to
Speaker 2: chime in here. I want to focus on the city
Speaker 2: of Somerville, Massachusetts. Those of you who live in the
Speaker 2: Boston area know Somerville kind of the contiguous to Cambridge,
Speaker 2: a little contiguous I think, to Charlestown and Medford. It's
Speaker 2: it's kind of it's it's a suburb of Boston, sort
Speaker 2: of almost an extension of the city. But they have
Speaker 2: a pretty aggressive snow removal program in Somerville. Now, the
Speaker 2: last two winters are here in Boston or in New England,
Speaker 2: snow hasn't been much of a problem certainly, let us
Speaker 2: say Massachusetts southwards. It always snows in Vermont and Maine.
Speaker 2: In New Hampshire it seems. But we've got hit with
Speaker 2: some pretty big snowstorms in the low not huge, but
Speaker 2: significant snow and we've started off with a very very
Speaker 2: cold month of February. So what has happened is we've
Speaker 2: had this set of circumstances where we get maybe a
Speaker 2: rainstorm turns to ice, maybe there's some sleet involved. Then
Speaker 2: there's a snowstorm. It freezes real quickly if you don't
Speaker 2: get out and get it right away, and then there's
Speaker 2: some rain. And it's been below thirty two for several
Speaker 2: days in a row. I mean it's and it's been
Speaker 2: below zero on wind chew factor. I mean, it has
Speaker 2: been a really nasty, nasty last few weeks since sometime
Speaker 2: in I guess late January. It's not to the level
Speaker 2: of the winter of twenty fifteen January of ten years ago,
Speaker 2: when it just snowed tremendous amounts I mean eight I
Speaker 2: think it was eighty inches in February and one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty inches in the last half of January and
Speaker 2: through February into March. But no, I got a beef.
Speaker 2: My beef is with the City of Summerville because apparently,
Speaker 2: according to a whole bunch of reports that I have
Speaker 2: seen the last few days, the City of Summerville has
Speaker 2: gotten really aggressive with their own residents. So if you
Speaker 2: own a piece of property, or if you own your
Speaker 2: own home in Summerville and you have a sidewalk in
Speaker 2: front of your house, I believe that sidewalk is owned
Speaker 2: by the City of Summerville, not by the homeowner. That's
Speaker 2: the way it is in most cities, and I have
Speaker 2: no reason to think that that's anywhere any different in Somerville. However,
Speaker 2: in Somerville, you have an obligation to keep your sidewalk clear,
Speaker 2: which you know, I understand under normal circumstances, that's that's
Speaker 2: a kind of a reasonable obligation. They, however, have looked
Speaker 2: at this series of snowstorms in Somerville, and I think
Speaker 2: they have seen it as a revenue stream because according
Speaker 2: to and I have several TV and newspaper stories here,
Speaker 2: and I will just tell you that this is not
Speaker 2: research that I have independently done. But this research is
Speaker 2: not only from the shoveling rules and supports on the
Speaker 2: City of Somerville's website, which we're going to talk about,
Speaker 2: but also you know, legitimate news sources are reporting that
Speaker 2: a lot of tickets have been given out this winter,
Speaker 2: and as certainly I would assume the vast majority of
Speaker 2: those tickets have been issued since probably the middle of January,
Speaker 2: because before the middle of January, we didn't have much
Speaker 2: snow this year, but not much cold. Frankly, I mean,
Speaker 2: it was a little cold in other years, but it
Speaker 2: has really the last month gotten very cold. Since November
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four, Somerville has given out eight hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety four tickets to homeowners who have not cleared
Speaker 2: their sidewalks. Now the system in Somerville says that sidewalks
Speaker 2: must be cleared within six daylight hours. Once the snow stops,
Speaker 2: the homeowner is expected required to shovel a path of
Speaker 2: at least thirty six inches that's three feet wide down
Speaker 2: to the payment on the sidewalks and ramps. Now, by
Speaker 2: the way, do not shovel the snow onto city streets
Speaker 2: unless the temperature is forty degrees warmer, and during daylight hours.
Speaker 2: Break up snow and ice and spread it evenly on
Speaker 2: the street so it melts more quickly. Okay, These rules
Speaker 2: apply to all snowfall or ice, not just when a
Speaker 2: snow emergency is declared. Now it says, don't get a
Speaker 2: ticket not complying with the above rules can result in
Speaker 2: a fine of one hundred dollars for the first offense
Speaker 2: for owners of one to two and three unit homes,
Speaker 2: two hundred dollars for the second defense, and three hundred
Speaker 2: for all subsequent offenses. Fines for commercial property or residential
Speaker 2: buildings with more than four units go up a little
Speaker 2: bit to one hundred and fifty for the first defense
Speaker 2: and three hundred for all subsequent offenses. In designated areas,
Speaker 2: city crews may also clear sidewalks in front of private
Speaker 2: properties beginning twenty four hours after the snow stops falling.
Speaker 2: Snow removal will be prioritized following the guidelines below. The
Speaker 2: city may impose additional fines in place leans on property
Speaker 2: where the city has to clear the sidewalks. So here's
Speaker 2: where it really gets interesting reports of unshoveled sidewalks. All
Speaker 2: you have to do is report an unshoveled sidewalk by
Speaker 2: calling three to one one or there's a number there
Speaker 2: to city hall, emailing three to one one updates at Somerville,
Speaker 2: MA dot gov, or downloading and using the three one
Speaker 2: one app. You may also report issues via Facebook, Facebook,
Speaker 2: dot com, Slash three one one Somerville or Twitter at
Speaker 2: three to one one Somerville at Somerville City Hall. Let
Speaker 2: me tell you they are very aggressive in Somerville. Now,
Speaker 2: there apparently is some sort of a Somerville Youth Show program.
Speaker 2: Is a paid opportunity for you to help for youth
Speaker 2: to help a local seniors, persons with disabilities, or persons
Speaker 2: with medical conditions after a snowstorm. Seniors and other qualified
Speaker 2: persons pay a subsidized fee to Youth for shoveling services
Speaker 2: for both their own property and for the adjacent sidewalks.
Speaker 2: So even if you're a senior, or if you're a
Speaker 2: person with a disability, or you're a person with a
Speaker 2: medical condition like a heart condition, you too are expected
Speaker 2: to shovel the city sidewalk that is adjacent to your property,
Speaker 2: the sidewalk in front of your property. And they are aggressive.
Speaker 2: Eight hundred and ninety four tickets so far for these conditions.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, folks in Somerville, you should be
Speaker 2: calling the Mayor's office Mayor Cantanja Valentine, she's a second
Speaker 2: term mayor and let her know that imposition of this
Speaker 2: policy which might work, you know, for a normal snowstorm. Okay,
Speaker 2: normal snowstorm two or three inches. Okay, that's fine. But
Speaker 2: we've had a series of snowstorms which it's impossible. It's
Speaker 2: impossible to keep your sidewalk clear, particularly if you're a senior,
Speaker 2: if you're someone with disabilities, or if you're someone with
Speaker 2: some sort of a heart condition. People have died shoveling
Speaker 2: snow in Somerville. Apparently the political leaders in Somerville are
Speaker 2: more interested in a revenue stream than they are in
Speaker 2: the health and welfare of their citizens. I'm going to
Speaker 2: open up the lines here. Okay, I feel really strongly
Speaker 2: on this. I feel really strongly now. I shoveled some
Speaker 2: on my property. I don't live in Somerville, but I
Speaker 2: shoveled some on my property. I put some sand out
Speaker 2: on my property. Was out on Sunday afternoon when it
Speaker 2: was pouring rain, and I got soaked. I easily could
Speaker 2: have gotten pneumonia. I was soaked through some of my clothes.
Speaker 2: I don't think my outer garments haven't dried off even
Speaker 2: at this point on Thursday. Uh, And I was out
Speaker 2: there trying to take advantage of the rain and use
Speaker 2: whatever rain we were going to get to form some rivulets.
Speaker 2: Which would you know channel the any snow that did
Speaker 2: melt or any ice that did melt away down down
Speaker 2: the driveway or off the driveway. So I want to
Speaker 2: know from you, where are the people of Somerville and
Speaker 2: if you're in Summerville. This is just not fair. Now
Speaker 2: I know someone's gonna say, wow, people should be able
Speaker 2: to walk on the sidewalks. Well, guess what. Sometimes in
Speaker 2: the wintertime you can't walk on the sidewalks. It's as
Speaker 2: simple as that. Sometimes in the wintertime you're kind of
Speaker 2: crazy if you walk on the sidewalks because you're only
Speaker 2: looking for trouble. This is nasty set of storms who
Speaker 2: have had. I think it's time for Somerville to back off,
Speaker 2: and I'm calling for all of those tickets, those eight
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty four tickets, that money should be refunded.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that. That is a burden that
Speaker 2: you're placing on your own citizens in Somerville, which I
Speaker 2: think is totally unfair. It's also arbitrary and capricious because
Speaker 2: if if I happen to live in a neighborhood where
Speaker 2: someone wants to report me the little snow shoveling superintendent
Speaker 2: who will write the tickets will show up at my
Speaker 2: door only because maybe there's a neighbor that doesn't like me.
Speaker 2: There's too much in this, too much involvement that I
Speaker 2: think is totally unfair. Six one, seven, two, five, four
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: Let's have at it, and let's shake Somerville up here
Speaker 2: a little bit. And I want to hear from listeners
Speaker 2: in Somerville, and I want to hear from listeners from
Speaker 2: people like me who don't want to ever go to Somerville,
Speaker 2: particularly during the winter, because I don't think it is
Speaker 2: not a friendly place. Somerville. We should we should call
Speaker 2: it Winterville at this point, maybe Howie Winterville. We'll be
Speaker 2: back on nightside. Let's have some fun with this, but
Speaker 2: let's also make our points because if this succeeds in Somerville,
Speaker 2: it's gonna succeed in neighborhoods where you are. And this
Speaker 2: is unfair. There's no sidewalk in Somerville other than a
Speaker 2: sidewalk that you know they have these little plows. That's
Speaker 2: what the Somerville DPW is for, simple as that we'll
Speaker 2: be back on nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nights Side Studios on WBS News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's let's get at it. Gonna go to
Speaker 2: Justin and Marlborough. Justin, Welcome, sir, how are you tonight?
Speaker 2: Welcome Justin?
Speaker 3: Thank you for taking my call. You're forgetting a very,
Speaker 3: You're forgetting a very with the point for yourself.
Speaker 2: Go hell of.
Speaker 3: They'll copy some of them'll copy this from your from
Speaker 3: your from where you live. Some of them will copy
Speaker 3: this from Newton Newton rule.
Speaker 2: I don't know that that Newton is is enforcing it
Speaker 2: as as actively. Now. I know that there are you know,
Speaker 2: there are lots of people who want to walk on
Speaker 2: the sidewalks. But I also think that people should use
Speaker 2: their head and and occasionally say to themselves, Okay, maybe
Speaker 2: it's not you know, it's not advisable for me to
Speaker 2: walk on the sidewalk.
Speaker 3: Now, in Newton they actually had the traffic police, the
Speaker 3: white cas They go around and give out they give
Speaker 3: out warnings. I work as a mailman in Newton, so
Speaker 3: I walk on the side walks every day. So I
Speaker 3: think it's wonderful. Just my own self is benefit.
Speaker 2: But the pot guess what I understand that. But but
Speaker 2: the key word is selfish. You you at least acknowledge
Speaker 2: that that it that it's a good you know that
Speaker 2: it is. You know it's good for you. I get it,
Speaker 2: I really do. I I respect that. But men, I
Speaker 2: just don't understand why anyone would we're try to go
Speaker 2: out and shovel. It's it just it's tough, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean it's yeah, because I tell the people don't stumble.
Speaker 3: I said, I recommend that they buy a big bag
Speaker 3: of rock salt.
Speaker 2: That's good. But if again, if you're if you're eighty
Speaker 2: five years old, you maybe you don't have the ability
Speaker 2: to get to the store and buy rock salt.
Speaker 3: Right, and you just hope you just hope for the
Speaker 3: compassion of the neighbors. Don't anythink I want to bring
Speaker 3: up is that's say, you're right, the city owns the sidewalks.
Speaker 3: But if the city, if the city decides to fix
Speaker 3: it themselves, that's gonna cost a lot of money to
Speaker 3: get those individual like they have those small little plows. Yeah,
Speaker 3: side block that that'll cost more money than it does
Speaker 3: to buy rock thought. I'm just saying it's going to
Speaker 3: be more expensive to have the city. That's the idea,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: I think all the points you make, Justine are great.
Speaker 2: At the same time, I would bet if we went
Speaker 2: through the City of Somerville budget, if we put Elon
Speaker 2: Musk into Somerville City Hall, he could find some waste
Speaker 2: and fraud in Somerville City Hall saves some money. I
Speaker 2: just feel badly for some person who's on a fixed income,
Speaker 2: you know, particularly older person living on maybe Social Security benefits,
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden they get hit with a
Speaker 2: couple of one hundred dollars fines because they d shovel.
Speaker 3: I agree with you and Noney have. The thing I
Speaker 3: want to bring up is the other people that suffer
Speaker 3: a lot are the people that live on the corner.
Speaker 3: The house is on the corner, but then they get
Speaker 3: two sidewalks, and those are the ones that you know.
Speaker 2: Well. My producer Rob was just saying that that he
Speaker 2: lives he doesn't live in Somerville, thank goodness, but he
Speaker 2: deals with that as well. Justin. Always great to hear
Speaker 2: your voice. Thank you so much and thanks for doing
Speaker 2: what you do and getting the mail out. Do you
Speaker 2: get it. Do you drive a truck or do you
Speaker 2: do you have to walk a path.
Speaker 3: I walk, and the last thing I want to say
Speaker 3: about walking, yea, me is that people are very scared
Speaker 3: when they drive, even though there's no car coming on
Speaker 3: the other side. They won't go over the yellow line.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, yeah, it's crazy. Yeah, they were rather the
Speaker 2: side swipe a vehicle that's parked there, or maybe if
Speaker 2: you'll pulled over to deliver some mail. Thanks Justin, We'll
Speaker 2: talk soon. Okay, thank you, buddy, talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Let me go next to Jennifer and Brockton. Hey, John
Speaker 2: for welcome. You're next on nightside.
Speaker 4: Hi Dan, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm fine, Jennifer. I think I'm absolutely right on this.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Well, okay, you have some good points. I get you
Speaker 4: about it being an arbitrary and you know you NEBA
Speaker 4: could call in on you and that's not yea.
Speaker 2: It's like they're trying to have your neighbor racked you out.
Speaker 2: Jennifer Horeston has shoveled her sidewalk right.
Speaker 4: And I can that. I can see how that can
Speaker 4: be a real problem. But you know, I know that
Speaker 4: Somersville has some protections in place. I don't. I don't
Speaker 4: live in Somerville. I have some friends in Somerville, but
Speaker 4: they have an appeal process, so if you feel that
Speaker 4: it's been unfairly reported or whatever, like, there is a
Speaker 4: way to to try to navigate that. So I found that,
Speaker 4: Like when I heard it on the news the other day,
Speaker 4: I was like, hmm, this is not cool. But at
Speaker 4: the same time, like, okay, well, you know there is
Speaker 4: a process, so I was real sure by that. The
Speaker 4: other thing.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, Jennifer. Hey, Jennifer, have you
Speaker 2: ever have you ever tried to take an appeal on
Speaker 2: anything in city hall? You live in Brockton, Okay, I
Speaker 2: don't know. You know, you're sitting in front of some clerk.
Speaker 2: You got to take a day off from work, or
Speaker 2: you got to take a half a day off from
Speaker 2: work to go into the clerk's office and sit in
Speaker 2: front of some clerk. And most of the clerks they
Speaker 2: could kill less, they though.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can do a lot of things by mail, now,
Speaker 4: you know. And there's also, like you know, there are
Speaker 4: other avenues. It's not always in person. So like, I
Speaker 4: don't want to jump to the conclusion that that's the
Speaker 4: only way that you can resolve that is in person.
Speaker 2: Dealing with with city with city clerks is whatever.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I hear you, I hear you. But you know,
Speaker 4: years ago when we had the snow apocalypse and then whatever,
Speaker 4: we were in the middle.
Speaker 2: Ten years ago this month, we were in the middle
Speaker 2: of snow apocalypse.
Speaker 4: Absolutely yep, and what a nightmare. And when I was
Speaker 4: I have two young girls. They're a little older now,
Speaker 4: but they're school age, so they're both in school and
Speaker 4: it was a nightmare. Kids in Broxton were walking in line,
Speaker 4: single style in the street with tons of traffic. So
Speaker 4: you know, Broxton was issuing tickets at that time, and
Speaker 4: you know, were they paid or was anything ever resolved?
Speaker 4: I don't know, but it it definitely was a It
Speaker 4: was a problem, and like, I don't know, there's got
Speaker 4: to be some sort of solution, whether the city's fumness
Speaker 4: and take care of it themselves. You know, that's not
Speaker 4: realistic either. I don't know what the solution is. But
Speaker 4: the other issue, my dad just broke his legs. My
Speaker 4: dad just like he just had surgery two days ago.
Speaker 2: Yep, from the from the snow, the storm or something,
Speaker 2: you mean.
Speaker 4: Really ice on February six. Yeah, it wasn't this storm.
Speaker 4: It was the previous one and.
Speaker 6: He was.
Speaker 2: He on his own property or where was he?
Speaker 4: He was on his own property and yeah, they live
Speaker 4: in Homebrook. They have a dog and he, you know,
Speaker 4: was in the yard and he was there was snow
Speaker 4: on top of the ice and he was trying to
Speaker 4: clear it for the dog and didn't know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: but you know, I just I mean, that was his
Speaker 4: own property. He was taking care of it. He also
Speaker 4: takes care of the whole neighborhood.
Speaker 2: For I told your dad, Jennifer, Jennifer, how old your dad.
Speaker 4: Seventy two.
Speaker 2: Concerned?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is he is?
Speaker 1: He?
Speaker 2: Is it all in the cast at this point and
Speaker 2: he's in traction or something.
Speaker 4: You know, he's still in the hospital. He had surgery
Speaker 4: on Wednesday and he's coming home tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Did he break his shin bone.
Speaker 4: Fibula like by the ankle, his fibula, so the you know,
Speaker 4: the two bones that connected me to the ankle, the
Speaker 4: outer one which is thinner. Yeah it was not, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was.
Speaker 7: He's okay.
Speaker 4: It could have been worse, you know, tell him.
Speaker 2: Where people out there will say a prayer for him
Speaker 2: tonight and hopefully he'll have a question.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, Hey.
Speaker 2: K Thanks so much up on my news break. So
Speaker 2: I got to let you run, but please say how
Speaker 2: to your dad for us, and and you know, it
Speaker 2: could happen to any of us, Okay. And he's out there.
Speaker 6: Trying to absolutely help help.
Speaker 2: His his puppy, his dog. And we've all.
Speaker 4: Been in you know, we have an eighty two year
Speaker 4: old neighbor across the street and he come over to
Speaker 4: help my mom, and you know, me and my daughters
Speaker 4: were over there too, and the other neighbors and you know,
Speaker 4: your help one person, they helped you back. And that's
Speaker 4: what it's all about, you.
Speaker 2: Know, absolutely, that's what neighbors are for. That's why you
Speaker 2: have to get to know your neighbors. Thanks Jen, I
Speaker 2: appreciate your call so much. Be well, Okay, thanks.
Speaker 3: You too, goodbye talk So thanks, good night.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've got the news coming up. I also have
Speaker 2: a two lines at six point seven ninety and one
Speaker 2: at six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty, So
Speaker 2: light it up. I want to hear from some folks
Speaker 2: in Somerville. I think, don't be afraid. You can use
Speaker 2: a different name if you want, so you're not going
Speaker 2: to be ratted out by the thought police in Somerville
Speaker 2: or the snow police. Let me put it like that.
Speaker 2: Back on Nightside right after.
Speaker 1: This, It's Nightside with Dan Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Let's keep rolling. You're going to go to Bill in Boston. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 2: appreciate your calling in. Thanks for your patience. You're next
Speaker 2: on Nightside.
Speaker 5: Hi Dan, My mom and grandma grew up between Davis
Speaker 5: Square and Deal Square in Somerville.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and uh so, I'm very familiar with the area.
Speaker 5: I want to throw this out on the constitutional level.
Speaker 5: Sidewalks for a property that was usually belonged to the
Speaker 5: homeowner that the city took years ago because they want
Speaker 5: to people to be able to walk without getting hit
Speaker 5: by cars on the street. But it was an eminent
Speaker 5: domain process where they would seize the property of the
Speaker 5: homeowners and the homeowners would lose a portion of their
Speaker 5: property because the city said we're taking it, We're putting
Speaker 5: on sidewalks.
Speaker 8: But nowhere did any city ever.
Speaker 5: Tell people, oh, when you're seventy five years old and
Speaker 5: eighty years old, you have to keep.
Speaker 8: The sidewalks open for us. We're taking your property.
Speaker 2: Yep. The constitutional points, great points, great points, And I
Speaker 2: mean for me, I'm going on really the practical point
Speaker 2: of view that if you're an older person, look, you
Speaker 2: know if and by the way, I don't care if
Speaker 2: you're twenty five years old and have the strength in
Speaker 2: your in your hands of a mason, and you're you know,
Speaker 2: six foot three and you're sculpted, try try getting rid
Speaker 2: of that snow once it's turned to ice. It's time.
Speaker 2: It's tough.
Speaker 5: My grandmother was a widow in her eighties and I
Speaker 5: used to come buy a house and she's out there
Speaker 5: trying to clean things, and it's crazy. You know, this
Speaker 5: is where cities go overboard, because it's a matter of
Speaker 5: you hit the you hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 5: It's about raising revenue.
Speaker 8: They want to lose some money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all it is, that's all it is. It means,
Speaker 2: you know, one more public servant. They'll use the word public.
Speaker 2: We'll be able to hire another public servant who's probably
Speaker 2: the brother in law of some city councilor or someone
Speaker 2: like that. If you know what, someone cant who needs
Speaker 2: a job. Yeah. I just think it's so unfair. And
Speaker 2: if I was in some of it, I'd really be
Speaker 2: upset and I'd be calling the mayor's office and look,
Speaker 2: you have a situation where you set it up where
Speaker 2: they expect people to call three one one and ran
Speaker 2: out their neighbor. How about that? Oh yeah, argument with
Speaker 2: your neighbor? Are you you have a little bit of
Speaker 2: an issue with your neighbor? You call them up three
Speaker 2: one one, Hey, you know, check out such and such,
Speaker 2: you know atle sidewalk? How about that? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 9: Can I?
Speaker 8: Can I divert? Can I divert? For one second? There's
Speaker 8: a neighborhood in Boston. Yeah, there's a neighborhood in.
Speaker 5: Brighton, Boston, close to Boston College and it's an Orthodox
Speaker 5: Jewish neighborhood where they have no parking four hours before
Speaker 5: and after BC games and this neighborhood they're all Orthodox
Speaker 5: Jewish people. And uh, nobody watched a mile and a
Speaker 5: half from this neighborhood a pass from the from Chestnut
Speaker 5: Hill AB to the ballgame. But the City of Boston
Speaker 5: sweepstown ticket and tagging.
Speaker 8: And I was down visiting a friend.
Speaker 5: Dan and I'm not Jewish, but my friend is Jewish,
Speaker 5: and somebody was tagging the next door neighbor to this.
Speaker 8: Woman who is.
Speaker 5: A rabbi in training, and he came out politely to ask,
Speaker 5: and I pulled my cell phone out and I I
Speaker 5: put it in his face and I said, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: WBZ and take your picture if you if you tag
Speaker 5: this car, and he got in his car and he
Speaker 5: ran off.
Speaker 2: So you saved the rabbi and training a ticket. Okay,
Speaker 2: good for you.
Speaker 5: You know, it was all about money.
Speaker 8: It had nothing to do with it. And nobody goes
Speaker 8: to the VC games.
Speaker 5: From Chestnut Hill to have your you know, down down
Speaker 5: the BC and it's.
Speaker 2: All exactly you know, I know exactly where it is.
Speaker 2: That's a long walk. That is a long walk. That's
Speaker 2: what it is. It's a revenue stream, simple as that. Hey, Bill,
Speaker 2: appreciate the call very much. We'll talk soon, okay, Hey.
Speaker 8: Hey, you take care, Okay, thanks, good night.
Speaker 2: All right, one line there at six one, seven, two
Speaker 2: five four to ten thirty, and I got a couple
Speaker 2: at six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. For
Speaker 2: some reason, a lot of people don't remember these six month,
Speaker 2: seven nine three one ten thirty. We're talking about snow
Speaker 2: shoveling in Summerville and at the risk if you don't
Speaker 2: do it. And by the way, it's just not snow,
Speaker 2: it's ice. That is virtually impossible to move right now.
Speaker 2: It's it's not going to move for another couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: and they are going to be able to pick off
Speaker 2: people in Somerville and charge them one hundred bucks, two
Speaker 2: hundred bucks, three hundred bucks revenue stream. And it's just
Speaker 2: it's it's sad. I feel badly for people in Somerville
Speaker 2: to have to deal with this, particularly folks who have
Speaker 2: some disabilities and some folks who are a little bit older.
Speaker 2: And there have been people who have collapsed from shoveling snow.
Speaker 2: But in Somerville, they don't really care. They were the
Speaker 2: politicians over there. They're your progress who are who are
Speaker 2: just looking to to grab as much money as they
Speaker 2: can and get you for something. Next, they'll they'll have
Speaker 2: a thing, I'm sure probably coming up on grass cutting.
Speaker 2: If you don't cover the grass, if you don't cut
Speaker 2: your grass to a certain length, they'll be able to
Speaker 2: penalize you as well. Coming back on the night Side.
Speaker 1: Now bent to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on w b Z the news.
Speaker 2: Radio, keep rolling to fill in Boston, Phil. I think
Speaker 2: I know you well enough to know you're gonna be
Speaker 2: upset about this, Phil.
Speaker 9: No, I'm just I'm just hoping the bike lanes.
Speaker 2: Were right exactly. Yeah, let's find the people.
Speaker 9: When you call me, I mean you when you were
Speaker 9: talking about how you were able to channel the water
Speaker 9: so it goes downhill. That's what happened to me. I
Speaker 9: was channeling the water, so we'll come down into the
Speaker 9: into the gutter and go down the street. It worked
Speaker 9: out good wall to figure it out, but in the
Speaker 9: process I try to keep that damn kind of strong
Speaker 9: so it wouldn't break down. And when I drove out
Speaker 9: the cay, I tore up the plastic pieces. So I
Speaker 9: gotta figure out out. But can't they put I mean
Speaker 9: then someone someone mentioned by rock sall a pail with
Speaker 9: you can't buy rock rock salt melts is going out
Speaker 9: the door before this even happened.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm told that because it was a light snow
Speaker 2: the last few winters that the rock salt manufacturers had
Speaker 2: kind of cut back on how much rock salt manufactured.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's still well.
Speaker 9: Filers given tickets right wonderable back of the Blizzard of
Speaker 9: seventy eight and give everybody to was stuck on the
Speaker 9: expressway tickets park in the expressway.
Speaker 2: I mean you today today they would do that. I
Speaker 2: think that the sty there, I.
Speaker 9: Mean, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Well, they look at they look at all of us
Speaker 2: as nothing other than at MS.
Speaker 9: Pry a ticket, you get another hundred dollars ticket. You
Speaker 9: can't make this. This unbelievable.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing. Look, you go to the store.
Speaker 2: They want to charge you now for paper bags, they
Speaker 2: want to charge you for plastic bags, everything, everything, And
Speaker 2: now you say, well, it's a nickel or a dime.
Speaker 9: They got like maybe twenty spots the park on the
Speaker 9: street to go to the local guy there, and then
Speaker 9: they got an eight story apartment and going up over garage.
Speaker 9: That should be a lot of fun. I mean is
Speaker 9: I don't want to get But the reason I calls
Speaker 9: when you mentioned about you want, you're not your way
Speaker 9: to shovel. So what kind of the water will kind
Speaker 9: of blend in with We're.
Speaker 2: Trying to push the water because then the water would
Speaker 2: would melt some of the snow. But it was so cold,
Speaker 2: I mean it was over by four o'clock in the afternoon.
Speaker 2: The water was saying, we're freezing up here. No, but
Speaker 2: if you've heard the Phraseville. You're gonna nickel and dime someone.
Speaker 2: That's what they do to you. They nickel and dime
Speaker 2: you what it's a one hundred dollars ticket for the
Speaker 2: poor people in Summerville, or it's five or ten cents
Speaker 2: for a bag at the store. I mean, give me
Speaker 2: a break. What's wrong is welcome to Massachusetts. They get
Speaker 2: you coming and going just with this. They only tax
Speaker 2: they only tax two things in Massachusetts, Phille.
Speaker 9: But we're gonna fight them. We try to fight these people.
Speaker 9: We kill. We kill the fourth of strangers coming in town.
Speaker 9: Fourth of they my neighborhood.
Speaker 2: Just remember this, Phil, We're lucky. They only they only
Speaker 2: tax two things, anything that moves and anything that doesn't move.
Speaker 9: They have speedbuts on the Allen deal Rose. I guess
Speaker 9: it's nice of the fuck realized school, Savaria. They took
Speaker 9: them down a few days because they people come playing.
Speaker 9: They gottall if you.
Speaker 2: If you're an ambulance trying to get someone to the hospital,
Speaker 2: you don't need a lot of speed. Phil, I got
Speaker 2: a round, I got people are backed up here, I
Speaker 2: got full lives audios. Thank you, my friend. Let me
Speaker 2: go next to Rosslyn and Maldon. Hi, Roslyn, How are you?
Speaker 7: I'm fine? Thank you?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. What do you think? I'm glad you
Speaker 2: live in Maldon and not in Somerville. Please don't tell
Speaker 2: me Maldon's doing the same thing.
Speaker 7: As far as I know, Yes, I think we are
Speaker 7: closed to shovel are sidewalks. But I don't think it
Speaker 7: is six hours. I think it's I'm not sure. I
Speaker 7: think it's either twelve or twenty four.
Speaker 2: But have you shoveled your sidewalked in this week?
Speaker 7: I wist certainly have. And one has to do it
Speaker 7: before it freezes and becomes ice. And I also live
Speaker 7: without I also live without a car, and I'm a
Speaker 7: senior citizen, and so I think we need to see
Speaker 7: this from the point of view of pedestrians. You know,
Speaker 7: I walk to work, I have to walk to the tee,
Speaker 7: I have to walk to groceries. I think homeowners do
Speaker 7: their own snow shoubling, raking, mowing.
Speaker 2: So your side, your spl just so I know, grossling,
Speaker 2: your sidework is shoveled.
Speaker 6: Good for you, Yes it is?
Speaker 2: Yeah? How big? How long is your sidewalk? It's a
Speaker 2: long sidewalk or.
Speaker 7: Notably long. No, it's in front of a two family house.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, do you do it yourself or do you
Speaker 2: find some local kid to and pay him a few bucks?
Speaker 7: I do it myself. Once in a while a neighbor
Speaker 7: will have done it with a snowblower before I get
Speaker 7: out there, but I would. I'm always sure that it
Speaker 7: gets done. So well, I'm happy.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm happy for you. I just think that this
Speaker 2: storm's this series of storms, particularly you know, the rain
Speaker 2: and then it froze solid, and then it snowed, and
Speaker 2: then you had ice. I mean, hats off to you, Rosslyn.
Speaker 2: I can't argue with you. You must have been out
Speaker 2: there right away. Hats off to you. I think it's
Speaker 2: been a tough, tough set of storms to deal with
Speaker 2: in the last few weeks. It's not your traditional yah snowstorm. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So did you use rock salt and everything? Were you
Speaker 2: able to use? Yeah? I assume did you use rock
Speaker 2: salt and all that or just just.
Speaker 7: Out the stores had run out?
Speaker 2: Good for you, Rosslyn, Hats off to you. Okay. I
Speaker 2: can't argue with you on this one, and I know
Speaker 2: you didn't get fined, so that's good. Okay. Thank you, thanks,
Speaker 2: good night. You should get you should get Citizen of
Speaker 2: the Year in Maldon. Thank you. Let me go next
Speaker 2: to down in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Down next on nights.
Speaker 2: I go ahead, hello, well yeah, hey, don welcome. It's
Speaker 2: a strong start to the call. Hi, Don welcome. Can
Speaker 2: you hear me?
Speaker 6: Thank you? Yayah, go right ahead, Portsworth, New ports with
Speaker 6: New Hampshire. We they all pile the sidewalks almost the
Speaker 6: same time as rogues are blowed, and most of the
Speaker 6: sidewalks are usually in pretty good shape. But I also
Speaker 6: wanted to mention that rock salt only melts down about
Speaker 6: thirty degrees. We put it on ice. You know. Lately,
Speaker 6: the it's been below thirty most every day, you know absolutely.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this when you talk about the
Speaker 2: little I know, the little plows, the mini plows you're
Speaker 2: talking about. I know that they have those like in
Speaker 2: downtown areas. Do you live in the downtown area of Portsmouth?
Speaker 2: Are you outside the city itself? And I'm not exactly
Speaker 2: sure how how big portsmouths is as a cityhood. Did
Speaker 2: they bring those plows out the neighborhoods?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I'm about four about four miles from downtown
Speaker 6: and then they plow. I mean they pile all the
Speaker 6: sidewalks where I am out here.
Speaker 2: But how did you ask us? How did they do that?
Speaker 6: In pay?
Speaker 2: Do you pay heavy duty real estate taxes up there
Speaker 2: or what? How did they do that? That's pretty good.
Speaker 6: A lot of people complain a lot of people complain
Speaker 6: the matter. Real estate taxes are higher than mass Us.
Speaker 9: I think.
Speaker 6: I think they are more higher. I think they are
Speaker 6: higher here in port than they are preventy summer availables
Speaker 6: and more. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, if you pay a little extra
Speaker 2: and you save some money on that, that's that's a
Speaker 2: good thing. They always do things better in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: New Hampshire is a great state to live in. It's
Speaker 2: a much No, I'm serious, you're you're blessed to be
Speaker 2: living in New Hampshire.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And a lot of people in Massachusetts are moving up there,
Speaker 2: you know that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Portsmouth does a lot of things we have, you know,
Speaker 6: we have a higher higher real estate tax, but I
Speaker 6: think we get a lot for the money.
Speaker 2: Good for you, Good for you? All right? Don Hey,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us. Have I heard from you before us?
Speaker 2: It's your first time calling.
Speaker 6: The first time.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do a lot of clause. Thank you, thanks
Speaker 2: so much. Keep, thank you, listen, thank you very much.
Speaker 6: If you want, I did. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: No, No, that's okay. We go finish your thought, finish
Speaker 2: your thought.
Speaker 6: No, I was gonna say, we always use the calcium
Speaker 6: chloride when a construction for anything below thirty degrees to
Speaker 6: melt the ice or keep the concrete from freezing and
Speaker 6: all the ready mix and all that. Okay, gotcha, And
Speaker 6: calcium chloride is much better, more money, but it works
Speaker 6: fifteen degrees lower, you know.
Speaker 2: Good for you. Thanks John, appreciate the tip. Talk to
Speaker 2: you soon. Have a great night. We've got to take
Speaker 2: a break. I'm going to stick with this John and
Speaker 2: Hannover and Angelo New you guys stay. They will stick
Speaker 2: with this for a little while and then we will
Speaker 2: switch off. I got one other topic that I want
Speaker 2: to talk about. We're going to talk about the baggage
Speaker 2: bin battles on airplanes. Uh, we'll get to that, I promise.
Speaker 2: Where we're just kind of have a nice, fun, easy night.
Speaker 2: You guys stay there. If not, give us a call.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five four ten thirty six one, seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty, we're talking about the battle in Somerville where
Speaker 2: they are picking their residence pockets because they haven't they
Speaker 2: haven't shoveled the ice caked streets of Somerville. Back after
Speaker 2: the ten o'clock news