People fight snowy side streets in Dayton's Bluff
People fight snowy side streets in Dayton's Bluff
Now do this with crutches?
SAINT PAUL, Minn. -- In the hilly neighborhood known as Dayton's Bluff on Saint Paul's East Side, residents battled snow packed side streets Monday with a mix of pluck and frustration.
Riley Soeffker, and 8th grader home from school for the President's Day holiday, divided his time between shoveling neighbors' sidewalks and pushing strangers stuck on streets that hadn't seen plows yet.
"He's got a good group of friends here together, and they kind of take care of the neighborhood," his mother Kari Soeffker told KARE, "Including me, and it's nice. I'm just last on the list!"
Kari herself had been stuck in the alley earlier, only to find the coffee shop she was headed to for a break from laundry was closed.
All 80 of Saint Paul's snow plows were in action overnight, but the sheer weight of the snow caused the plows working night routes to spill over into the daylight hours.
In some cases the plows themselves were stuck and waiting for the city to send a front-end loader, a tractor used in construction, to come pull them out of their predicaments.
"Yes, I'm stuck," one driver told KARE, noting that he's not allowed to speak to the news media. But he did agree to state the obvious.
"I'm stuck. I'm waiting for the tractor to get here and pull me out."
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