Last Updated on December 12, 2017 by Lawrence Berezin
Here are some valuable resources to keep you informed about the blizzard of 2016 and how to survive a snow emergency
Just as the winter of 2006 was becoming a faint memory, the blizzard of 2015 is ravishing the tri-state area. A snow emergency and blizzard conditions are not fun (thanks, Captain Obvious!).
Here are some great places to visit to stay up to date on the progress of the snow beast.
- NYC Severe Weather 311
- “What to do in a snow emergency to avoid an NYC parking ticket”
- ABC Eyewitness News
- Fox 5 NYC News
Please let us know if you’d like to add other valuable links. We are happy to oblige.
Please, be careful out there…Better yet, stay home and watch movies.
Best,
Larry, Dan, and Ellie
Commentary
Have you ever received a parking ticket with the entry for registration expiration date, N/S-Snow? If so, I would fight the ticket and raise an omitted registration expiration date as a defense. The rules allow a Warrior to omit a registration expiration date if it’s:
- covered
- defaced
- faded
- mutilated
I would argue that snow doesn’t qualify. All a Warrior has to do is brush the snow away and scan it or enter it manually. Anyway, I’ve won and lost this defense. Why not give it a try.
[Updated on January 22, 2016]
Update…Images of an NYC “Blizzard”
Thanks Lawrence for all your posts.
I got a ticket for blocking a driveway, the day after 7″ of snow fell (total for the month = 14″). I couldn’t see the driveway because of all the snow on the curb. It looked like all the rest of the street. Anyway, I have two questions related to this:
1. It’s been exactly 3 weeks since the ticket and it is not showing up on the nyc website. I only have 30 days to respond, so what do I do if it is still not online in the next few days?
2. The warrior failed to mark the AM/PM dot next to Time of Violation. Can I use this to fight the ticket? Do I stick with the snow argument? Do I use both?
thanks!
Mary,
Good morning.
Thanks for your kind words.
Great questions:
1. I trust your parking ticket is a handwritten ticket.
This is a tough one.
Most importantly, failure to mark AM/PM is a winning defense.
You have two options:
A. Fight the parking ticket by mail. Prepare a defense letter and send a copy of your parking ticket with a circle around the omitted AM/PM on your copy. Please be sure to send it certified, return receipt requested.
B. Fight the parking ticket online. It will probably rear its ugly head on the last day or day before. No worries if it does because your defense submission and evidence is considered filed when you click submit.
Here’s my concern…When the handwritten ticket appears online, you may discover the AM/PM bubble is filed in.
I would also raise the invisible driveway as a defense. I trust you took photographs that will persuade a judge that there was no driveway on the property, or curb cut visible at the entrance/exit on the street. This is a weak defense. Generally visibility of driveways, fire hydrants, crosswalks, etc is not a defense.
(amazing, huh!).
If it t’were me, I would wait for the ticket to appear online and fight it online. I want to see the online version before submitting my defense. If it isn’t online on the 30th day, attempt to fight it online and when the error message appears, make a screen grab to prove that you tried but couldn’t fight it.
Good luck.
Best,
Larry
Thanks Larry. The ticket just showed up online. I will write my defense and send it off, with an annotated image of the ticket!