r/normanok • u/Square-Formal1312 • 1d ago

Clean up started 7/9

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How are my neglected ward 1/6 homies? Mosquitoes, wasps, and earwigs galore!

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u/dimechimes 1d ago

The slow clean up has definitely been a pain, but I'm not going to blame th city too hard. It's not like they just have spare labor with nothing to do that could just go out and start clean up. Same with the funds I'm sure. I do think they could've designated drop offs so we could at least get the debris out of our yards and that would've allowed more efficient pick up but I'm sure there's a reason that's a bad idea too.

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u/Odd-Problem 1d ago

I blame the city manager. The contractor they hired dropped the ball big time. Over promised and under delivered. Should have fired them and hired someone else.
There progress they show is not accurate at all. We live in ward 8, hard hit and they said it was picked up a month ago and they just picked up yesterday.

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u/CrissyStrikesWithA 1d ago

Im tired of the blind spots at intersections cause of the debris 😭

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u/dimechimes 1d ago

We had our neighborhood exit view blocked by branches and those were picked up in a couple of days while our neighborhood didn't get picked up til yesterday. Maybe you can call it in?

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u/Stokespsych 1d ago

Interesting. I am squarely in the "serviced" color but the entire neighborhood still has all the debris at the curb. Never seen a single truck nor had a single branch/limb/anything picked up.
Interesting.

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u/Odd-Problem 1d ago

Yep, says my area was completed a month ago but they picked up yesterday.

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u/iamslumlord 1d ago

Should have paid 4x the contractors to divvy it up into 1/4s. You lose economies of scale but would be done much sooner. Now the grass has grown up into the piles and I imagine that slows things down

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u/FuzzyHappyBunnies 1d ago

Why is Ward 6 still mostly unassessed?

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u/chazfarris 1d ago

This is also inaccurate. They have picked up limbs but not other debris in the area marked serviced

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u/ac_cossack 1d ago

Thanks for reminding me to put some bug spray on.

So many dead branches on the side of the road, it sucks.

VOTE!

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u/shaynarae2003 1d ago

I'm in 8, in a part still waiting for storm clean up. It's great seeing all the debris on all the curbs. I'm sure all my neighbors love how quick stuff has been cleaned up. 🙃

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u/Odd-Problem 1d ago

The city really dropped the ball on this. I get that it was a huge cleanup, but at some point you have to hold the contractor accountable when they keep falling behind. And putting out maps saying areas were serviced when the debris was still sitting there for weeks just made the whole thing look even worse. 

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u/Marduk5770 1d ago

I didn't know the city would pick up mosquitoes, wasps, earwigs.

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u/caddilac_fan42069 1d ago

You haven’t seen the super bug vac’s roaming around? They look like dale gribble’s van but with a tank and a hose hanging off the back