For Evanston’s tow truck drivers, the weekend’s snowfall has brought a flurry of work.

On Sunday the city towed 94 cars that were illegally parked on city snow routes, according to Evanston Police Department’s Traffic Resource Office. As of Monday afternoon, the city had ticketed 162 other cars for violating “snow emergency” parking rules.

Although many Northwestern students said they moved their cars over the weekend to avoid towing, at least one paid the price for deciding not to brave Saturday’s snow.

Communication junior Kevin Kearney paid $150 Sunday night to get his silver Nissan Sentra out of North Shore Towing’s impound lot.

But Kearney said he

wasn’t shocked Sunday when his car was no longer parked near his apartment at Ridge Avenue and Church Street.

He was “too lazy” to move it Saturday, he said.

“I knew walking out to find my car that there was a possibility it wouldn’t be there, and I had this lingering worry that I screwed up,” Kearney said.

On main streets, such as Sherman or Ridge avenues, 2 inches of snow prohibits cars from overnight parking on either side of the street. These “snow route” rules apply from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.

During a snow emergency — which the city can declare if it has snowed at least 4 inches — residents must park their cars on the even side of the street on days with even dates, and on the odd side on odd dates, to allow for plowing between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

Kearney said he wasn’t sure if the city would enforce its snow-emergency parking policies on the weekend.

David Jennings, the city’s director of public works, said NU students will be more informed about snow emergencies now that Dean of Students Mary Desler has subscribed to the city’s e-mail update service. Desler subscribed Monday, Jennings said.

Ron Walczak, who oversees EPD’s Community Strategies Bureau, said students always should worry about where they park.

“People get into this false sense of security because one day (the city) didn’t tow or didn’t ticket,” Walczak said. “And then, bam! Their cars are gone.”

Medill senior Allison Werner found her blue Volkswagen Jetta safely buried under a pile of snow on Sherman Avenue on Monday. But Werner said she thinks the city needs to do a better job of notifying students when the snow-emergency parking rules are in effect.

Werner said her fiancee’s car has been towed eight times since he brought it to campus three years ago.

“Part of that is his irresponsibility,” she said, as she scooped the snow away from her tires. “But part of that is that (the rules) are not always clear.”

But for Weinberg senior Emily Mraz, keeping her car safe is simply a matter of reading the city’s parking signs carefully.

“I love my car,” Mraz said. “It’s my baby. I would never let it get towed.”

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Snow parking regulations

The City of Evanston has declared a snow emergency again for today.

 No parking allowed on the odd-numbered side of streets between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. — indicated by red, white and blue signs

 Any vehicles in the way will be ticketed and towed; ticket fines are $25 and towing fines are $75