You have never seen so many snow plows.

Park Slope’s Seventh Avenue is covered in snow plows. Sort of. I must have seen five of them. Last night I was out and 2nd Street between 7th and 6th Avenues was closed off to cars and there were snow plows and other snow equipment clearing the streets around PS 321.

This morning many streets were closed off while snow plows emptied snow into dump trucks.  Quite a site. It reminded me of the children’s book, Katie and the Big Snow.

The book, written by Virginia Lee Burton (who also wrote Mike Mulligan and HIs Steam Shovel) is about a woman named Katie who drives a big red tractor in the City of Geoppolis. She saves the day when an enormous snowstorm hits the city. With her big snow plow on, Katy helps the police chief, the doctor, the superintendent of the Water Department, the fire chief and others as she plows them to their destinations.

Like Katie during the big snow, the NYC Department of Sanitation  is really going to town clearing the Park Slope snow build up.