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It was plow versus snow in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn Tuesday and the snow was still winning. Elsewhere, crews didn't even try -- leaving dozens of streets blocked, as seen on an hour long tour.

Drivers who abandoned their cars are partially to blame. Sanitation workers also insist that the snow is simply too deep for all but the most powerful of plows. And those machines are in short supply.

Vincent Roccanova, a Parks Department supervisor called into plow duty, suspects other reasons to the response.

"Maybe they didn't bring enough people in. I know it's Christmas week so a lot of kids are off school, and a lot of people plan their vacations to be with their kids," Roccanova said.

City Hall says staffing was adequate.

In Chelsea, as in other parts of Manhattan, the situation was vastly different. Mayor Bloomberg hotly denied accusations of a double standard.

"We won't get to everybody every time, we will make mistakes, but we have to continue plugging ahead. Yelling about it and complaining doesn't help," said the mayor.

Bloomberg has pulled in other vehicles to help and is ordering a review of the 911 system, which drew more calls than the 2003 blackout.

"We are doing everything that we can think of, working as hard as we can, and we will pull together and get through this," said the mayor.

"The mayor is living in a different world. He is definitely not living in New York. Maybe Manhattan," said Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn. "He doesn't get it. He's telling us to be calm, he's telling us the theaters are open, like I give a damn, or the people care about that, when they can't even walk in the street."

The uproar promises to linger far longer than the snow, as the City Council will be holding hearings on the response next month.