Snow Emergency Headaches

A snow emergency was declared last night and lasts until later today.  The most obvious purpose of the declaration is to have vehicles removed from public streets so our overworked public works employees can plow them clear.  One vehicle left on the street sticks out like a sore thumb and requires an additional pass of the plow once finally removed from the street.  In addition, the exercise of responding to complaints and identifying and locating the owner ties up our patrol officers for long (and often unnecessary) periods of time.  Once the emergency is declared, all vehicle owners are required to remove their vehicles from the streets within 6 hours.  If the vehicle is not removed within the prescribed time, our officers have the authority to have them towed (at owner's expense) to the Sarpy County Towlot.  Knowing that this option doesn't make us very popular, we do everything we can to locate someone who can move it off the street.  Often this is made more difficult because of out-of -date license registration information.  With the prospect of more snow on the way, please help us remain popular by complying with snow emergency requirements.  If you have a problem with non-compliance in your neighborhood, please call our non-emergency number at 339-3196 to report.  Meanwhile, why aren't those kids in school today?  When I was young I walked 5 miles through knee high snow................