CINCINNATI — As snow piles on the sides of streets and driveways after an unrelenting week of winter, a Mount Washington woman is finally free from being snowed in for days.
On Friday, we spoke with Susanna Niemeyer, who told us she couldn't leave her home since Monday due to her unplowed driveway, which was compacted with ice.
“I know we're going to get more snow, so I guess I'm stuck,” she said from her front step Friday morning.
After we aired her story, Niemeyer was freed just one day later. A WCPO viewer saw her story and her nephew stepped up with a snow plow to help Niemeyer.
"I didn't think it was gonna really happen, but it did," Niemeyer said. "If it weren't for (WCPO 9), I mean I'm telling you, I don't know what I would've done."
While one of her neighbors was able to plow out, Niemeyer hadn’t been able to even walk next door through the foot of snow because of back problems.
With the added snow Friday evening and night, she was concerned about the impact on her daily activities if she couldn’t find someone to help.
Niemeyer had previously reached out by phone to more than two dozen snow removal services but had come up unsuccessful.
One place first quoted her $400 before knocking it down to $350.
“For goodness sake,” she said.
She also said some people were completely booked up.
“One guy offered $100, but he never showed up two different days in a row,” Niemeyer said, reflecting on her lack of success.
Snow plow pricing is not an exact science. Some businesses use a combination of square footage and time worked, while others just give a price they believe to be fair.
