I have seen no progress whatsoever in the tree cleanup effort. Even the main roads like Eagle Rock Ave. still have lanes partially blocked. We are going to have major issues if the debris does not get cleaned up before the first snowfall.

Mac, I know exactly where you're talking about too. I'm up that road a lot and twice now I've had to avoid hitting people because of branches in the lane.

I'd just like to see people chop up the branches before they put them out for pick up. There's way to many branches still over sidewalks and into the street.

So has DPW hired extra people and/or approved overtime? Or are they refraining, to keep our tax bills down even if it means the work takes longer?

Looks like a different situation in Livingston. I have seen DPW trucks with full load of branches every single day and at different times of the day including weekends. Not 100% cleared yet in some streets but getting better and better each day.

Lisa Has your husband been hired to help with the clean-up ? Was he at least contacted ?

Give the DPW workers a break! I am sure many of us are having difficulty cleaning up our own properties after the storm. This is a huge town with many {formally} beautiful trees.I am not related to any of the workers, but I will say, they are doing their best under these unusual conditions. And, no, my street has not been cleared yet. We are all managing the best we can. Let's be thankful that there were no injuries, or worse from the storm.Stop whining.

Just more empty promises from our puppet Mayoir Parisi. It is a disgrace that our streets continue to be littered with debris that residents were directed to leave curbside. Can't wait until the first snow and the plows attempt to push all of this debris around with the snow. Brilliant Mayor Parisi!

Sometimes common sense must prevail. This storm is unprecedented and no one was ready for it. Keep in mind that many towns do not have surplus after Christie's raid on funding to counties last year. Things have to be done in terms of priorities and people need to chill and live with the minor inconveniences. It is funny that Christie is turning to the Federal Government since he believes that government wastes money and is to big. Right! Politics at its best.

Georges

This may seem like a "minor inconvenience" now, but as we all know, little problems turn into big problems very quickly. If we get a snowstorm before the cleanup is finished there are many roads that could become impassable. Remember how bad the roads were after last year's Christmas blizzard? Can you imagine what they would look like if we had another snowfall like that on top of all the debris? My street is already a single lane only.

Re Extreme weather. See http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html

If we are really seeing is higher temp/entropy driving more climate variability, we will see more of it because the warmer the air the more the air can hold water, so if the variability comes at a certain moment in the fall when the air is warm and wet, and it gets rapidly colder, that water has to come out right then, so, if the cloud involved is high enough, and the rate is fast enough, we might then get snow that sticks enough to build up faster than it can melt, and since snow is a fairly good insulator thermally, unlike liquid water, it can then start building up, like it just did.

ALSO see this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory

As seen above and also recently in 1816, climate outliers FREQUENTLY occur for OTHER natural reasons, like supervolcanoes. In 1816 we had our most recent of many global famines "the year without a summer" from a huge volcanic eruption making Earth colder

We have to be ready in terms of improving our food buffers and society for things like that because- as depicted in the recent Viggo Mortensen film "the Road", they happen, and in the past they have caused disaster -genetic bottlenecks have proved hundreds of species extinctions which reduced all humanity to a few thousand individuals surviving epochs of darkness and cold. We survived the Toba catastrophe and the ice age that followed. Next time - who knows?