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Eastern Bias- Blizzard stories

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if it's not duval's fault that his staff didn't clear a major state artery, can we absolve bush because his intelligence peeps fed him bad info? :p

Are you spelling his name incorrectly on purpose?

I get that these plow guys were working non-stop over the weekend. That said, I really don't understand how some major roadways haven't been cleaned up yet. Roadways that are clogged with the normal three lanes are down to two. All we heard last winter was how they had no work. Now they have work. Work!!!
 
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Our town's Public Works department has been way behind the curve. Most people around town dug out their own side streets, and until today the "main" streets were often less than two lanes wide, total (which worked fine as long as no one needed to pass each other, otherwise one car would have to pull over).

So anyway, we get a reverse 911 call last night. "The plows will be out clearing the streets, and they may leave a pile of snow across the end of your already-cleared driveway. This is not intentional it is unavoidable. Please don't push that snow back out into the road."

Dammed stupid! how many people will have left for work from a clean, dry driveway this morning, only to return tonight to find the end of their driveway blocked?? Then what, the snow will have frozen solid by then, you can't park on the road, you can't get into your driveway, and you can't shovel the end clear (which can only be done during the warmer daytime hours when the stuff can be lifted in pieces and chunks).

We dug out our street without your help, yet now you are going to mess that all up? Grr.
 
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Our town's Public Works department has been way behind the curve. Most people around town dug out their own side streets, and until today the "main" streets were often less than two lanes wide, total (which worked fine as long as no one needed to pass each other, otherwise one car would have to pull over).

So anyway, we get a reverse 911 call last night. "The plows will be out clearing the streets, and they may leave a pile of snow across the end of your already-cleared driveway. This is not intentional it is unavoidable. Please don't push that snow back out into the road."

Dammed stupid! how many people will have left for work from a clean, dry driveway this morning, only to return tonight to find the end of their driveway blocked?? Then what, the snow will have frozen solid by then, you can't park on the road, you can't get into your driveway, and you can't shovel the end clear (which can only be done during the warmer daytime hours when the stuff can be lifted in pieces and chunks).

We dug out our street without your help, yet now you are going to mess that all up? Grr.
Where the hell are you from? this is like in the upper midwest...thats why my dad always taught me to snow blow the shoulder of the road in the direction the plow will come from so some of that snow is already out of the way...
 
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Having a pile up like that is expected when the plows go through. I don't see what the issue is, there's nothing they can do about it. It's not like the piles are big enough you can't drive over them before you shovel them out...
 
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Where the hell are you from? this is like in the upper midwest...thats why my dad always taught me to snow blow the shoulder of the road in the direction the plow will come from so some of that snow is already out of the way...

and aim it downstream so it ends up in front of the neighbors! :D
 
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Our town's Public Works department has been way behind the curve. Most people around town dug out their own side streets, and until today the "main" streets were often less than two lanes wide, total (which worked fine as long as no one needed to pass each other, otherwise one car would have to pull over).

So anyway, we get a reverse 911 call last night. "The plows will be out clearing the streets, and they may leave a pile of snow across the end of your already-cleared driveway. This is not intentional it is unavoidable. Please don't push that snow back out into the road."

Dammed stupid! how many people will have left for work from a clean, dry driveway this morning, only to return tonight to find the end of their driveway blocked?? Then what, the snow will have frozen solid by then, you can't park on the road, you can't get into your driveway, and you can't shovel the end clear (which can only be done during the warmer daytime hours when the stuff can be lifted in pieces and chunks).

We dug out our street without your help, yet now you are going to mess that all up? Grr.
How could this come as a surprise to anyone? It's what happens when cities plow the roads; driveways get a mound of snow. With the roads having now been plowed, they should be back to normal width. So park on the street for an hour or so while you clear the end of your driveway. That's life.

Also, like Shirtless Guy said, you clear up-street from your driveway, and you don't have this problem. People around here figure that out when we're teenagers. Every teenager in a northern climate should have done the same.
 
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Clearly FF set us all up and was taking a jab at, "big gubmint". No way he was actually that stupid. Right?
 
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Gee, thanks for explaining the obvious, guys! All the stuff you mention is stuff we already do, under normal circumstances!

The only point was that we had already dug out our street. there were eight or ten families all out together, clearing everyone's driveway and the entire street too. It was a fun way to spend a few hours on the weekend with the neighbors and their children. since the street had already been cleared once, there was widespread concern that they'd create more problems than they solved. Fortunately, those concerns were not realized. :)

As it actually turned out, the snow was just too deep to plow, period. There was no place to plow it too, because it was already so deep! and in some places, the snow was higher than the plow blade as well. The town had to bring in front loaders and dump trucks and dig it out scoop by scoop and truck it away. I'm sure y'all get 32" of snow routinely all the time in less than 24 hours and so are all expert at handling it, eh? It was thigh-deep at our side door.

and on top of that, aren't we now in the 21st century? doesn't anyone take advantage of modern logistics? you send in the monster giant truck with the monster giant plow to clear the street, and then follow up with a few nimble pickup trucks to hit the bottom of each driveway, once, at an angle, to clear the spillage. Myself, I can still handle the work, but

There are so many elderly people in our town who just cannot be expected to shovel snow who had already hired people to dig them out, it would have been really a hardship for them to have to have people come back and dig them out a second time. Even the middle age folks have trouble lifting snow 4 feet off the ground merely to clear the mounds that had already been piled up. You can't use a snowblower on chunks of frozen snow that plows churn up, you can only use a snow blower on powdery stuff.


Anyway, it's all good now. Thanks for the ridicule, it was fun. :)
 
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Gee, thanks for explaining the obvious, guys! All the stuff you mention is stuff we already do, under normal circumstances!

The only point was that we had already dug out our street. there were eight or ten families all out together, clearing everyone's driveway and the entire street too. It was a fun way to spend a few hours on the weekend with the neighbors and their children. since the street had already been cleared once, there was widespread concern that they'd create more problems than they solved. Fortunately, those concerns were not realized. :)

As it actually turned out, the snow was just too deep to plow, period. There was no place to plow it too, because it was already so deep! and in some places, the snow was higher than the plow blade as well. The town had to bring in front loaders and dump trucks and dig it out scoop by scoop and truck it away. I'm sure y'all get 32" of snow routinely all the time in less than 24 hours and so are all expert at handling it, eh? It was thigh-deep at our side door.

and on top of that, aren't we now in the 21st century? doesn't anyone take advantage of modern logistics? you send in the monster giant truck with the monster giant plow to clear the street, and then follow up with a few nimble pickup trucks to hit the bottom of each driveway, once, at an angle, to clear the spillage. Myself, I can still handle the work, but

There are so many elderly people in our town who just cannot be expected to shovel snow who had already hired people to dig them out, it would have been really a hardship for them to have to have people come back and dig them out a second time. Even the middle age folks have trouble lifting snow 4 feet off the ground merely to clear the mounds that had already been piled up. You can't use a snowblower on chunks of frozen snow that plows churn up, you can only use a snow blower on powdery stuff.


Anyway, it's all good now. Thanks for the ridicule, it was fun. :)
You want some cheese to go with your whine?? If you're that worried about the elderly on your street, shoveling out the plow spillage, then go and shovel it out yourself. Or go find some neighborhood kid and pay him 20 bucks to go around and do it.
 
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We're under a blizzard watch again for Saturday night and Sunday, what the heck. Not as much snow but once again big time winds
 
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I usually shovel to the downstream side of things, but the pile on the downstream end of the driveway is almost as tall as I am. I couldn't lift it any higher. It gets that high because I have a north-facing driveway on a slope blocked by trees. Never melts. So I'm forced to pile it on the upstream side now or haul it up the driveway (which is uphill). I need a snowblower.
 
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Deja vu, all over again

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Yay.
Saw something the other day that was saying we should expect more blizzards and less overall snow. Not sure this adds up. Blizzard = lots of snow for us.
 
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