"Caught off guard.."?  You mean caught with your pants down.  This awful council ranks as among the most ideologically motivated and most manigerially inept of any I have ever seen in this city.  We had much more snow when I was a kid in the 60's and 70's and the city was not paralyzed.  

These nuts are all obsessed with "Green2020" while litter, condoms and needles lay strewn in the alleyways and snow shuts us down.  How about a "Clean2020" initiative Mr Mayor?  Or maybe not as you'd use it as another excuse to raise taxes.