Snow is beautiful…for skiers. Snow is fun…for kids. Snow is a money maker…for Plowers. Snow is a nightmare…for car dealers. Scott Honda is still digging out in some satellite lots, after back to back snow storms dumped nearly four feet of snow in a five day span.
You know how aggravating cleaning the snow and ice off your car is. Now imagine doing that 600 times. The organization, implementation and continued motivation of a snow crew is a task relished by few and perfected by no one…but we’re getting better.
“I was really impressed by how many people chipped in to dig us out,” said Jason Reitelbach, Internet Sales Manager. “We had more people working harder and longer then we ever have before, which is fortunate because we have never dealt with blizzards like this before.”
The severity of this storm forced the creation of a “Snow Task Force” comprised of 10 individuals from all areas of the dealership that arrived at 5 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursday morning to try to get the cleaning up of the dealership off on the right foot before all the employees arrived.
However despite their best efforts (this is called burying the lead) Scott Honda still had to close the doors due to weather for the first time in our 25 and a half year history.
“We really had no choice,” Vice President Duke Scott said. “With these storms being so huge and so close together we knew it would be too dangerous for employees to make it to work, much less customers.”
The fun news is Sconda has discovered a weather savant in our midst with Gregg “Nor’easter” DiRocco. The “Nor’easter” has predicted two storms on the nose and is building quite a web following. Stay tuned folks because it sounds like our weatherman will be busy again next week with some more white stuff headed this way.
