Steve Schecter, who is an information technology specialist for the federal government and lives in Olney in Montgomery County, said he isn’t too pleased with the county’s performance in plowing streets.

He and about 10 other neighbors who live at the end of a cul-de-sac on Meadowland Terrace have spent between seven and eight hours over the past few days digging the street out from what they said is 30 inches of snow.

They said at one point the county’s snow map shows that their part of the street had been plowed at least once by a county plow, but they said in fact it has not been. And they’ve got the pictures to prove it.

What’s been dug out is enough to allow one car to pass through, Schecter said. And it has been done by hand with shovels – no county plows involved, he said.

To be sure, he said someone did appear to hire a private snow plow that came down part of the street Monday night, but he said the entire street still hasn’t seen a county plow.

“I’m extremely frustrated,” Schecter said. “It’s ridiculous.”

“There’s no reason why we should be shoveling the street,” he said. “There’s no reason why the county should not have been ahead of the snow.

“I understand this is a record snowfall for this area, but if they knew they weren’t going to have enough people and enough equipment they should have started contracting out ahead of the storm.”

County officials have said they are working as fast as possible to get side and residential streets plowed, and crews are working long shifts. County Executive Ike Leggett had pledged that all county neighborhood roads would receive a snow plow pass by 7 a.m. Wednesday. However, County officials maintain that curl-de-sac’s are private property similar to driveways and should be taken care of by people or Homeowners’ Associations (HOA’s).

Schecter said he has lived on the street for four years and many of his neighbors who have lived there for longer said the street is well known for not getting plowed as fast as others. Why? Lots of theories but nothing concrete as to why that is.

It has been a lot of back and forth for Schecter.

On Tuesday afternoon, he said a neighbor called the 311 line to say the street hadn’t been plowed. At that time, the county’s map showed that it had been started. Then Leggett made the 7 a.m. Wednesday promise.

But Wednesday at 5:30 a.m. when Schecter got up it still had not been plowed. He called the 311 line at 8 a.m. and at 8:30 a.m. Meanwhile, the map showed the road had been “complete” meaning it was plowed.

Not the case, Schecter said, as he showed pictures of his street piled with snow on Wednesday.

The operator for the county said the information would be passed on to a depot. And when he asked about an estimated time of arrival she said if not today then no later than Thursday.

“I said there is no way the residents will wait until tomorrow,” he said. Already they had shoveled a portion of the street for one car to get through and many planned to go out again Wednesday afternoon and shovel more.

On Wednesday, Patrick Lacefield, a spokesman for the county, said the street had been plowed.

“We checked the trucks and the trucks had made a pass there, that street, they made a pass there before 7 a.m.,” Lacefield said.

Schecter disagreed. He said “that’s not the case.” He said he had just come in from shoveling around 2 p.m. and there’s still no sighting of a county plow.

Schecter said he thinks the discrepancy is because the trucks are likely at the end of the block and may see that part of the street was done by a private plow but they’re not coming all the way down to see that the cul-de-sac has not been done.

“They’re not taking their truck all the way down to where the circle ends,” Schecter said. “Just drive down there and look. It’s not done.”

For Schecter, Washington — and the county’s reaction — is different from where he has lived.

“I’m from Chicago,” Schecter said. “We elect mayors out of office if they don’t clear the snow in a timely fashion.”