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.
