Side streets in Detroit still unplowed
While the main thoroughfares of Detroit are relatively clear, the roads in the city's neighborhoods are anything but.
Many streets were unplowed and clogged this afternoon with knee-high snow drifts, forcing many residents to walk on the road because the sidewalks were buried.
Terrell Henderson wished he had kept his 1992 Ford Taurus at his east-side home. The 36-year-old father was driving to the store this afternoon for cold medicine when his car got stuck in a deep snow drift a block from his house.
"Same old, same old," he said, walking back home for a shovel. "Just another day in the city."
But for many cash-strapped Detroiters, snow brought opportunities.
Hoping to make a little cash by shoveling sidewalks and driveways, Justin Graham, 23, walked up and down snow-clogged streets in search of someone willing to pay $5 to $10 for his service. But after two hours, there was only one taker
"It's tough out here," said Graham, who is unemployed and rents an east-side house for $250 a month. "You do what you got to do, but sometimes it's not enough."
A few miles away, walkers-by and artists began the arduous task of shoveling entire blocks around the Heidelberg Project, a popular outdoor art experiment in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood.
"This is what art is about – bringing people together as a community," said Lisa Marie Rodriguez, an artist who lives at a house within the project. "It's a peaceful existence because we care about each other."
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