Join SnowCrew and help dig out neighbors who are elderly or disabled

By JosephPorcelli on Thu, 01/02/2014 - 10:48pm

Map of Neighbors Who Need Help Shoveling

For most of us the snow is beautiful when it is coming down and a hassle for travel but for the elderly and people with disabilities it can leave them stranded in their homes with out access to needed medications, food, and services.

We can help! I invite you to join me in digging out our elderly and disabled neighbors by participating in a program called #SnowCrew run via NeighborsForNeighbors.org.

If you or someone you know need shoveling assistance help can be requested on the SnowCrew page,

Here is how to join SnowCrew

Sign up to receive an email notification when a neighbor from Jamaica Plain or West Roxbury submit a shovel request.
Download the SeeClickFix app (the engine that powers SnowCrew) to monitor requests on your mobile phone
Follow @NeighborTweet and RT their #SnowCrew tweets
Like and share NeighborsForNeighbors.org facebook posts about Shovel Requests
Forward this email to your friends in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville

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Comments

Is there a way to see the map

By Josh on Thu, 01/02/2014 - 11:14pm.

Is there a way to see the map without signing up for emails or downloading an app? I'd rather not do either of those things, but am "working" from home tomorrow, so would be happy to help some neighbors. In Southie, so guess the emails wouldn't work anyway.

SnowCrew map

By downtown-anon on Fri, 01/03/2014 - 7:25am.

Does this do what you want?
http://neighborsforneighbors.org/page/snowcrew

yeaaaaaah, watch out

By anon on Fri, 01/03/2014 - 2:29am.

Some of these people seriously need to pay the neighborhood kid to shovel 'em out...I know I earned some money that way, and I lived in the burbs.

Last time I checked the "Snowcrew" there were a bunch of "my tummy hurts" type posts, and some of them were also older people who, when I checked the property records, owned the entire building in a triple-decker.

So, they're collecting +$3200/month in rent and they want you to shovel them (and their tenants) out.

Basically: punch the address into the city's property records search before you go and help out the "poor old little grandma" who "can't get her meds" unless you shovel her out...

One post last year was for shoveling/plowing/snowblowing out a RENTED PARKING LOT because the people who rented it out were le-tired and didn't budget for someone to come and remove the snow, and were too stupid to ask the property owner to include snow removal in the lease!

Also, if you see a sidewalk

By Felicity on Fri, 01/03/2014 - 7:42am.

Also, if you see a sidewalk or curb cut that hasn't been cleared, please report to https://mayors24.cityofboston.gov

Or tweet to @citizensconnect

Wheelchairs, scooters, etc need 48" of clearance to pass safely.

Get to work, Walsh!

By Anon on Fri, 01/03/2014 - 8:37am.

Menino's guy who's in charge of snow removal leaves his job permanently today at three and Walsh hasn't picked a successor. He hasn't picked a chief of staff to help him yet either. We all may be shoveling every sidewalk and the streets too.

There are now 43 shovel requests

By JosephPorcelli on Fri, 01/03/2014 - 5:02pm.

Hey all,

Thanks to those of you who have helped dig out your neighbors. There are now 43 people who have requested shoveling assistance and need help digging out.

Please see who near you needs help - http://neighborsforneighbors.org/page/snowcrew

Thanks