Neighbor Asks For Help Clearing Snow Mountain In Manhattan Beach

It appears the Department of Sanitation, in their effort to quickly clear the roads after this weekend’s record-breaking blizzard, has created a treacherous crossing on Shore Boulevard by piling almost seven feet of snow across the street from a local school.

Longtime resident Audrey Brown is asking neighbors for help clear a path around the mountain of snow to make the crossing more accessible to bicyclists, children, mothers with strollers and the disabled. The snow bank is across the street from P.S. 195, at Shore Boulevard and Irwin Street.

“I’ve never seen anything like this. They took all the snow accumulated from somewhere and dumped it right in front of the school. You have to climb over it, or walk through a foot of snow along the sides, and then you end up right in the middle of traffic,” said Brown.

She said she went out with a shovel to clear an elderly neighbor’s driveway last night and also cleared a path at the crossing on MacKenzie Street. But she said neighbors need to pitch in to shovel out other crosswalks along Shore Boulevard — with the most immediate need being the heap of snow at Irwin Street.

“It’s an amazing pile of snow, and there’s no path around it,” she said. “Even if a couple of people got together, we could quickly clear a path.”