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Jdurg:

--- Quote from: Peale on January 01, 2008, 01:41:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hockeyboy on January 01, 2008, 10:51:18 am ---How can you live in VT and not have a snowblower??

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Because it's not my house, it's an apartment.  Usually they plow long before they did, but for whatever reason they didn't come until like ten.  Then I'm guessing they saw that it *looked* clear, and took off. 

I called the landlord twice about it.  First time they said likely they just went away and would be back.  Since they also plow the property next door (and had) I doubted it, but waited anyway.  Called again around three pm  because it was bright and sunny by then, and I hadn't seen another plow on the road in a couple hours.  He showed up ten minutes later.

Believe me, when I buy a house, that's on the must-have list of purchases.

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When I bought my house, much to my surprise there was a brand new, never been used snowblower in the shed that the previous owners left behind.  Apparently they were Navy folk who were moved to Pearl Harbor, so they had no need for a snowblower out in Hawaii.   ;D

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 01, 2008, 05:13:32 pm ---Been out in the yard and garage all day cleaning up my latest EM purchase.  Barefoot and in a t-shirt.

Hooray Texas.  :D

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Call us in August when people are falling dead from heat stroke. 

ChadTower:

The heat doesn't bother me... but you're not going to convince the people in Texas that actually do die from the heat in the summer that it wasn't a problem for them.

Just like here, when the averages say it should be 10 degrees... and the thermometer outside your window says it is -10... 95 degrees down there isn't the issue.

tk_42_1:

--- Quote from: Peale on January 01, 2008, 01:41:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hockeyboy on January 01, 2008, 10:51:18 am ---How can you live in VT and not have a snowblower??

--- End quote ---

Because it's not my house, it's an apartment.  Usually they plow long before they did, but for whatever reason they didn't come until like ten.  Then I'm guessing they saw that it *looked* clear, and took off. 

I called the landlord twice about it.  First time they said likely they just went away and would be back.  Since they also plow the property next door (and had) I doubted it, but waited anyway.  Called again around three pm  because it was bright and sunny by then, and I hadn't seen another plow on the road in a couple hours.  He showed up ten minutes later.


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We had the same problem when I used to live in Vermont.  Three years of living there is all we could take and we moved our butts back to Florida.

The worst in our Condo we rented was having my wife go and shovel the parking space I always park in out in front of our Condo about 10 minutes before I'd get home and the -- smurfing -- neighbor's boyfriend would park in it.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: tk_42_1 on January 03, 2008, 01:33:46 pm ---The worst in our Condo we rented was having my wife go and shovel the parking space I always park in out in front of our Condo about 10 minutes before I'd get home and the -- smurfing -- neighbor's boyfriend would park in it.

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That's a good way to get your tires slashed up here.... and that's just a first warning.  In urban Boston, if someone shovels a spot and you take it, some people will total your car.  I used to see it somewhat regularly when I was at Northeastern.  You'd walk down the street after a storm and there would be lots of shoveled spaces with placeholders like garbage cans and the like in them... and a couple of shoveled spaces with newly disabled cars in them.  Parking in those places is very heated.

My mother lives in a suburban apt complex.  Last winter someone in a black truck was stuck in a spot they couldn't be bothered to shovel.  They gunned the gas, caught traction, and backed into my mother's front end hard enough to shatter the radiator, unseat the engine, and eff the front end to hell.  They didn't stop and she never did figure out whose guest it was.

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