DELEGATE SUSAN McCOMAS TO THE RESCUE LAST WINTER

LAST WINTER WAS DEVASTATING DURING THE BEGINNING PART OF FEBRUARY.  BACK TO BACK SNOWSTORMS CANCELED SCHOOL, GOVERNMENT OFFICES WERE CLOSED, DOCTORS OFFICES COULD NOT OPERATE, BUSINESSES LOST REVENUE IN AN ALREADY FALLEN ECONOMY, AND EVEN HOSPITALS HAD A MOST DIFFICULT TIME OF IT. YET, EVERYONE ATTEMPTED TO REMEDY THE SITUATION BY CONTINUOUSLY PLOWING, SHOVELING, AND SALTING THE ROADS, PARKING LOTS, AND SIDEWALKS.  THAT IS EVERYONE EXCEPT A PARTICULAR APARTMENT COMPLEX.  FOR THEM BEING RESPONSIBLE LANDLORDS TO THEIR RESIDENTS DID NOT FIT IN THEIR REASONING.  IT WAS MARCH AND STILL NOTHING HAD BEEN DONE TO ALLEVIATE THE RESIDENTS, IN PARTICULAR THE DISABLED.

ONE SUCH MULTI-DISABLED TENANT WAS FORCED TO SEEK THE ASSISTANCE OF A VERY CARING POLITICIAN, DELEGATE SUSAN MCCOMAS, AND HER EQUALLY COMPASSIONATE ASSISTANT, CATHIE.  TOGETHER THEY TOOK UP THE CAUSE TO ASSIST IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE.  THEY CONTACTED PROPERTY MANAGEMENT AND REQUESTED THAT THE SIDEWALKS AND PATH BE MADE ACCESSIBLE IMMEDIATELY.  WITHIN MINUTES, IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED.  YOU COULD HEAR THE SNOW BLOWERS CLEARING OUT THE SIDEWALKS AND THEN IT WAS SALTED AS WELL.

THAT WAS LAST WINTER, THIS WINTER THEY HAVE BASICALLY IGNORED THE PHONE CALLS FROM DELEGATE SUSAN MCCOMAS, HER ASSISTANT,  AND OTHERS, SUCH AS HARFORD COUNTY HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION, AND THE BALTIMORE NEIGHBORHOOD INC , WHO THEY TRIED TO CONVINCE THAT THE MOBILITY SCOOTER AND THE MULTI-DISABLED TENANT COULD GO OUT THE FRONT DOOR, BUT CONVENIENTLY FORGOT TO TELL THEM THAT THERE ARE FIVE STEPS FOR ENTERING INTO THE BUILDING AND FOUR MORE TO REACH THE GROUND FLOOR.