Snow parking ban

Just had a gentleman at the Ref Desk who refused to believe me that the parking ban is city-wide tonight.

"No, it goes by zones. I need to know what zones are involved. I need to know if I have to get my car off the street for the night."

So, I searched the city hall website, but, of course, all I could find was a parking ban announcement from last April.

"See! It says Zone 7! Told you there were zones!"

Please know that I never doubted him. I kept searching, and went to the city's police department for more information. Thankfully, the very first thing on the site (after their massive header image) is "PARKING BAN IN EFFECT 2/2/2011 FOR THE ENTIRE CITY" as the headline. We read more about it, and he finally accepted that the parking ban is, in fact, city-wide.

I'd worry about being smug that I was right and the man was wrong and I got to prove it to him, nee-ner, nee-ner. Except for one thing:

We've had 12" of snow in the last 24 hours, with another 6-10" scheduled for tonight. It doesn't take a huge amount of imagination to suspect that there might be no parking on city streets so the plows and salt trucks can try and keep up.

And, for the record, he lives in Zone 5.