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Offline franksolich

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primitives discuss snow removal
« on: February 08, 2013, 08:46:40 AM »
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Earth_First (10,691 posts)    Fri Feb 8, 2013, 08:48 AM


As someone who works in snow removal:

A few things:

- Please stay home when possible

- Please don't tailgate

- Trust me, I saw you a 1/4 mile or more before you saw me; trust that

- Please use off-street parking if at all possible

- Please understand that this amount of snow simply doesn't disappear overnight. While you sleep; we are working on twelve or more hours to complete the job. Clearing your driveway is nowhere near clearing an entire city of a snowfall of this caliber; it may take several DAYS in fact...
 
Lastly, enjoy the weather...from home! There will be plenty of days following the storm to enjoy the winter wonderland. Let us do our job so that you may safely enjoy your weekend!

There's six primitive comments complimentary of snow-removal guys, and then this old grouch:

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Tracer (1,889 posts)    Fri Feb 8, 2013, 09:40 AM

7. Kindly try not to plow snow back into my driveway ...

... one minute after I finish shoveling.

I thank you and my aching back thanks you too.
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Re: primitives discuss snow removal
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2013, 08:50:13 AM »
 :rotf:  Oh yeh!  Make sure you don't touch that speshul snowflakes driveway  :lmao:
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Re: primitives discuss snow removal
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2013, 08:59:15 AM »
There are a couple of disadvantages to using a snow shovel.....the handle is to short and the weight to light to give a DUmmie a "GOOD" whack up side the head with it.
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Re: primitives discuss snow removal
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2013, 09:04:31 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 08, 2013, 08:59:15 AM
There are a couple of disadvantages to using a snow shovel.....the handle is to short and the weight to light to give a DUmmie a "GOOD" whack up side the head with it.

You ever seen that video of the two old neighbors going at it with the shovel?  :rotf:
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Re: primitives discuss snow removal
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2013, 09:38:07 AM »
In all practicality, grouchy Tracer, what do you expect a snow plower to do?  He has to proceed forward and clear the street.  He can't stop at your house, lift the plow, go gingerly past, and drop it again.  This is just a fact of life of snow. 

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Re: primitives discuss snow removal
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2013, 02:22:09 PM »
When I was growing up in NH, we lived on the same street that the town plows were kept.  We had the cleanest, widest, best plowed road in town, but we also always had a big ass pile of snow at the end of the driveway while we were shoveling, after we were done, before we started.  Always got a new mail box every spring too after the old one was hit with a wing plow once too often.
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Re: primitives discuss snow removal
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2013, 06:24:19 PM »
Quote from: Karin on February 08, 2013, 09:38:07 AM
In all practicality, grouchy Tracer, what do you expect a snow plower to do?  He has to proceed forward and clear the street.  He can't stop at your house, lift the plow, go gingerly past, and drop it again.  This is just a fact of life of snow.

Remember that he's a liberal - problems are there to be legislated, because laws solve all problems and there are no mere facts of life.
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Re: primitives discuss snow removal
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2013, 01:58:35 AM »
Quote from: Karin on February 08, 2013, 09:38:07 AM
In all practicality, grouchy Tracer, what do you expect a snow plower to do?  He has to proceed forward and clear the street.  He can't stop at your house, lift the plow, go gingerly past, and drop it again.  This is just a fact of life of snow.  



When I was the ripe old age of 8, I was given the responsibility, along with my brother, of keeping the driveway clear of snow.   My father, who spent his growing-up years shoveling out Pennsylvania driveways in the 1940s, showed us that if you not only clear out the driveway, but a little ways up the road in the ditch before the driveway, the snow would tend to collect there, rather than dumping into the driveway path.  

Lessons learned at 8, a primitive cannot figure out at 18, 28, 38, 48...
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