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magidUnlike everywhere else, my office didn't close today. No snow day for me. Feh. So, shoveled the front stairs and walk yet again (third time). There was much more snow than the previous times, so it was pretty heavy stuff. Luckily toward the end a neighbor up the street saw that I'd done a fair bit, and did the end with his snowblower.
Then to excavate the carsicle. That took longer, actually, since I had to schlep the snow across the street. I shoveled on three sides, since I couldn't get to the driver's side by the curb. I had to climb in from the passenger side (over the stick shift), drive out, then clear off the rest of the car.
Once I got through the local streets, the highways were clear, and there was little traffic. There were some idiots clearing their cars on local streets, though: it's one thing to let some snow from your car area get into the plowed street. It's another thing altogether to shovel two-foot-high drifts into the street to get your car out, making a hazard course for drivers. Jerks.
Then to excavate the carsicle. That took longer, actually, since I had to schlep the snow across the street. I shoveled on three sides, since I couldn't get to the driver's side by the curb. I had to climb in from the passenger side (over the stick shift), drive out, then clear off the rest of the car.
Once I got through the local streets, the highways were clear, and there was little traffic. There were some idiots clearing their cars on local streets, though: it's one thing to let some snow from your car area get into the plowed street. It's another thing altogether to shovel two-foot-high drifts into the street to get your car out, making a hazard course for drivers. Jerks.
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Date: 2003-02-18 08:07 am (UTC)<--- workin woolf
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Date: 2003-02-18 02:57 pm (UTC)oh, they have them where you are too?
walking to the T around midday, I saw someone with a snowblower doing that. I asked him about it, but no, he wasn't planning on blowing the snow back out of the street.
I can understand (after spending the past 2-3 hours shoveling snow) the impulse to just dump the snow that's between your car and the road, into the road. BUT NOT WHEN YOU'VE GOT A SNOWBLOWER, FOLKS!!!
ahem. Where was I? Oh yes, I trust you made it home OK too?
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Date: 2003-02-18 03:13 pm (UTC)If I had a snowblower, I'd aim it somewhere other than the street. But that's just me.
And yes, thank you, I made it home just fine, and even found a legal parking spot without difficulty, on top of a quick-ish commute, since so many other *reasonable* employers told people to stay home. (If they don't give you off for the biggest snowfall we've ever had, when will they? *sigh* looking towards no days off for weather unless legally required...)