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Snow Shoveling
CheffoJeffo:
Yep, on residential streets. Rarely here in TO, but all the time in MTl.
Mikezilla:
Thank god I live in San Diego, all this snow business sounds like a pain in the ass.
ErikRuud:
--- Quote from: RayB on January 31, 2011, 02:10:05 pm ---The snowblower plows are also very slow. They need to work in tandem with a dumptruck. Its too slow and obstructing for most city use.
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The city of Chicago has some of them, but as far as I know, they only use them on the highways.
Out in the suburbs where I live, we all have driveways and rarely park in the street.
The snowplows always come through and block driveways. Mine usually isn't too bad, because I have a corner lot, so there isn't as much snow in front of the blade when it goes past. The next guy past me gets it much worse than I do.
My corner of the intersection is also the bus stop for the kindergarten through 5th grade kids. Guess which corner the plows always use to pile up the snow from the intersection on?.
I have the biggest snowblower I could by. A couple times I have "found" the Sunday newspaper buried under the snow. The snow blower hardly notices, it just gives a slight thump and shoots confetti everywhere.
javeryh:
Parking in Hoboken or Jersey City right now is a freaking mess. We have a ton of snow but in my neighborhood people really only park in front of their own houses (or in their driveways). I can't remember having this much snow on the ground for this long. We haven't seen green since Christmas!
I know what you mean about the chairs and "reserving" a spot though. I used to hate spending an hour shoveling myself out only to come back an hour later and the spot is taken so I'm forced to park in some crappy spot that someone just pulled out of without shoveling at all - people suck. I never reserved a spot but I was annoyed all the same.
SithMaster:
--- Quote from: javeryh on January 31, 2011, 03:44:06 pm ---Parking in Hoboken or Jersey City right now is a freaking mess. We have a ton of snow but in my neighborhood people really only park in front of their own houses (or in their driveways). I can't remember having this much snow on the ground for this long. We haven't seen green since Christmas!
I know what you mean about the chairs and "reserving" a spot though. I used to hate spending an hour shoveling myself out only to come back an hour later and the spot is taken so I'm forced to park in some crappy spot that someone just pulled out of without shoveling at all - people suck. I never reserved a spot but I was annoyed all the same.
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Chad's driveway sounds like mine. I've considered building a flamethrower to deal with the snow, but its not really safe. Two walls of snow on both halves of the lawn with the only other place that's somewhat empty being the empty space of the driveway (two cars in a four car driveway with both being parked close to the sidewalk).
If my car was parked on the street and I took the time to shovel the area around it out I'd be annoyed too about someone else taking the spot. I wouldn't confront them over it unless they were a neighbor though since people visiting my neighbors would have no were else to park (reasonably close). If a neighbor already had a spot and decides mine is better that's disrespectful.
I will say parking on the street after its snowed and been plowed is somewhat safer than using the driveway. On either side of my driveway there are huge piles of snow that you can't really see over.
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on January 31, 2011, 12:54:50 pm ---To go into unnecessary detail. Plows plow the road, not the shoulder. Homes there typically don't have driveway as you would call them. They're more like turn outs. In the winter what is a driveway and what's shoulder becomes blurred. So to get the turnout plowed, you have to pay for it. You can shovel all you want but with 10+ foot snow banks, you quickly lose interest.
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If the signs indicating permit only are covered with snow I can understand why they decided to park there though. I can't understand why they park there though if no driveways are visible for homeowners other than the turn outs.
I can't wait for spring. No more parking nonsense and the windows won't have that white stuff from the salt on the road.
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