Olympic organizers continued to use heavy-lift helicopters, dump trucks and a fleet of snow-grooming machines Monday to deal with the meltdown at the resort hosting the snowboarding and freestyle skiing events at the Vancouver Games.
"Our fleet of salt spreaders and snow ploughs has been working flat out to keep our roads safe and serviceable for use.
The New York City Sanitation Department, which is in charge of clearing streets, converted its fleet of garbage trucks into snow plows and prepared 200,000 tons of salt for city streets.
The task of quickly and effectively clearing roads buried under a foot of snow can be a challenging feat even for the strongest fleet of snowplows.
In the city's plan, it is envisioned as something like a ballet of behemoths, with a fleet of more than 2,000 garbage trucks swooping through the streets, brushing aside tons of snow as quickly as possible.
As a precaution, he declared a snow emergency effective at midnight last night and deployed a fleet of tow trucks to remove cars parked on snow routes.
As a precaution, the mayor declared a citywide snow emergency effective at midnight last night and deployed a fleet of tow trucks to remove parked cars from snow routes.
For several years, the department has had a fleet of portable snow melters -- at least two assigned per borough -- that each melt 60 tons of snow per hour and deposit the liquid runoff into designated sewers.
To that end, the company shipped a fleet of these little-engines-that-could – and a cadre of adventurous motoring writers – to a remote and adventurous moonscape of snow storms, icy rivers, jagged rocks and perpetual threat of volcanic eruption.
But harder to see are one helicopter, two snow cats and a fleet of roving buses on a road below the resort that help move droves of skiers and snowboarders uphill each day.
