That was a couple of days ago.
After last night’s storm, the good news is that East Cleveland now has two salt trucks in operation. No, those aren’t the ones they were fixing, of course. No, ODOT has lent the cash-strapped city two salt trucks to service roads in the meantime. So, there’s that. Happy sledding.
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(Original story 12/13/16): Wither winter weather already underway in earnest on the east side and more to come soon, it’s probably not great that East Cleveland doesn’t have any working salt trucks right now.
According to the city’s website, both of their salt trucks are currently out of service with electrical issues. Only one truck is being repaired in-house and has the possibility of being available in time for the winter storm heading our way. The other will be repaired over the weekend.
East Cleveland could get at least half a foot of snow.
Earlier this year East Cleveland was operating without any ambulances, made headlines in 2015 for operating without fire trucks and forgot to pay their cell phone and web hosting bills.
This has been your periodic update that East Cleveland can’t afford things.
This article appears in Dec 7-13, 2016.
The residents who have continually voted numb-skulls into office can figure it out among themselves. Perhaps each person over the age of 11 can adopt a section of roadway to shovel and salt.
This is a shame, and is the manifestation of a much larger problem…what that problem is, I really don’t know.
Apathy?
Mismanagement?
Greed?
A planned failure?
I have no idea, but EC has definitely changed for the worst from what it was when I was a kid…and I’m 50 now!!
It’s liberal Democrat wonderland in EC!
It’s sad, really. You have a once thriving community that is now subject to things like “no operating salt trucks” or jokes like “don’t slow down in east cleveland or you’ll die”. This is what happens when more people in your community don’t care about it than people that do. But hey, its hard work to turn something like this around. Maybe we can just blame everyone else or make it someone else’s problem and they can do the hard work to turn east cleveland around!
I don’t think you’re allowed to say that Adam. Unfortunately, this is the result of the refusal to recognize a deficiency in inner city culture, regardless of race.
And yes liberals, even though you don’t live in reality, it’s people that vote Democrat and is run by Democrats.
I just love how the commentors blame the people left in east cleveland for the fiscal nightmare bought on by both severe population loss, the housing bubble collapse, and a myriad of other forces beyond their control… commentators who do so or people who agree with them, next time you fall on hard times, be it illness or act-of-god remember, its all your fault. Hold yourselves to the same standards you hold everyone else to.
I feel like my comment has been misconstrued. Nowhere in my comment do I reference race, @BrianWilson. You can call it culture, i’m choosing to focus on the community aspect and the deficiency that exists in that regard. I should also clarify that I blame all the people that have left East Cleveland for the current state of the city just as much as I do apathetic people. There are a lot of people left that still care a lot, but based on visuals that segment of the population is clearly outnumbered. No one is blaming the current population for economic collapse that is out of their control, but its not a stretch to say there are a lot of people that don’t seem to care about how the city looks and what happens to it. And StoneCaster, when I’ve been on hard times, i didn’t just blame bad luck. I had to acknowledge that change had to happen first with myself and my actions/attitude, and that’s the same long, hard look in the mirror that some apathetic East Clevelanders need to take here, instead of just saying it’s someone else’s problem/fault or waiting for their neighbors to pick up the pieces instead. These comments don’t come from joy in the misery of east cleveland, they come from frustration at the state of the city.