Residents on Staten Island are still talking about the snow from weeks ago. The holiday weekend storm dumped up to 30 inches on the borough – and the city spent days trying to cleanup.

On Tuesday night the people sounded off on their nightmare. It was yet another blizzard backlash, reports WCBSTV.

It was the first of five meetings in all the boroughs, taking testimony on the lack of an emergency declaration to the hundreds of buses and ambulances that were stranded to the complaints from the city’s own politicians.

A study of 1,700 Staten Islanders shows:
* 83 percent didn’t see a snowplow till midweek.
* 78 percent were unable to leave home.
* 67 percent couldn’t get to work.
* 43 percent lost pay.

A representative from the city’s Department of Sanitation was at the meeting, taking notes and giving yet another flat apology.

Council Speaker Christine Quinn was among those blasting the city for what she calls an epic failure.

“You shouldn’t have had to endure the poor cleanup that you did, and you shouldn’t have to come out tonight,” Quinn said.

So there were no answers from the city. The lone representative from the sanitation department did not take questions. The City Council members hope to have that fixed, as the rest of these series of snow hearings continue.

The next hearing is set for Wednesday night in Brooklyn at Borough Hall.

(Source: WCBSTV)