Thread: Snow

Originally Posted by Brontosaurus

If it's any consolation, February 2015 in the Boston, Massachusetts, metropolitan area was terrible regarding snowfall. Around 8-9 feet of standing accumulation at one point. It was like living in the trenches. At one point, there was nowhere to put the shoveled snow. I bought a wheelbarrow and started hauling it away to the nearest street corner, around 300 feet away from my doorstep. Thankfully, we've had less snowfall since then.

Wasn't that the year the polar vortex hit hard as far south as Texas and Florida and stayed for a long time?

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

Wasn't that the year the polar vortex hit hard as far south as Texas and Florida and stayed for a long time?

Bob

I remember that, the Canadian Military were sent to Texas to show them how to build igloos

Originally Posted by BobH

I think we have had enough.

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Bob

Maybe silly and off topic but I don't see any mailboxes. How to you get your mail? At a group of boxes at the end of the street or the post office? Maybe its hidden in the snow but it looks like people don't shovel/use their front doors either.

I am not looking forward to the drive to work tomorrow morning. If the weather girl is half right it will be a slow one in 4WD.

I have heard rumors of snow, maybe Wednesday. We had 3 inches weeks ago, we were shut down for days

Originally Posted by 32t

Maybe silly and off topic but I don't see any mailboxes. How to you get your mail? At a group of boxes at the end of the street or the post office? Maybe its hidden in the snow but it looks like people don't shovel/use their front doors either

In the cities there was a time when all mail was delivered to a mail box on your home by the front door Monday through Friday certain holidays excluded. Then the bright boys at Can Post decided to go to community mail boxes so we now have a mix. They stopped adding community mail boxes as people were pretty upset about them. In our area it is still delivered to your house. Front doors are used so sidewalks are cleared but you can't see that because of the snowbanks being so high now. In the rural areas it is a different story depending where you live.

Bob

Originally Posted by spazola

I have heard rumors of snow, maybe Wednesday. We had 3 inches weeks ago, we were shut down for days

I would expect that to happen in areas where snow is a rare occurrence. Here snow is an too regular occurrence and they have the equipment to handle it most of the time. In my part of Ontario we still get highway closures on the really heavy snows and it has gotten more frequent since the province privatised/contracted out that work.

Bob

Originally Posted by BobH

In the cities there was a time when all mail was delivered to a mail box on your home by the front door Monday through Friday certain holidays excluded. Then the bright boys at Can Post decided to go to community mail boxes so we now have a mix. They stopped adding community mail boxes as people were pretty upset about them. In our area it is still delivered to your house. Front doors are used so sidewalks are cleared but you can't see that because of the snowbanks being so high now. In the rural areas it is a different story depending where you live.

Bob

I live on an unusual block in my city. We have alleys and the houses across the alley from my house overlook a lake. I live on the poor side. LOL The rich side doesn't wan't the mailman etc interupting their view etc. so the mail is delivered down the alley into a slot of their garages. On our side it gets delivered to the front. Our alley is kept almost as clean as the streets around here so it is easy to walk down but I think that mail delivery to the garage in a way is not a bad thing other than I would have to walk farther to get it. It would save the mail man many steps if the alley was clean to deliver both sides that way. . Here the city does not clean alleys and it is up to the neighborhood snow Tzar to contract it. We take turns and I did my couple of years. Very long story short but if I remember right it cost me $17 USD for my share this year.

Tim

Originally Posted by 32t

I live on an unusual block in my city. We have alleys and the houses across the alley from my house overlook a lake. I live on the poor side. LOL The rich side doesn't wan't the mailman etc interupting their view etc. so the mail is delivered down the alley into a slot of their garages. On our side it gets delivered to the front. Our alley is kept almost as clean as the streets around here so it is easy to walk down but I think that mail delivery to the garage in a way is not a bad thing other than I would have to walk farther to get it. It would save the mail man many steps if the alley was clean to deliver both sides that way. . Here the city does not clean alleys and it is up to the neighborhood snow Tzar to contract it. We take turns and I did my couple of years. Very long story short but if I remember right it cost me $17 USD for my share this year.

Tim

You have a unique situation with your alley/lane way.

We have lane ways which the city does no snow removal on. Most don't use the lane ways and those that do have to clear the snow if they want to use it.

Bob

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Just not here!

Originally Posted by BobH

You have a unique situation with your alley/lane way.

We have lane ways which the city does no snow removal on. Most don't use the lane ways and those that do have to clear the snow if they want to use it.

Bob

Our garages to not have main street acess as I see yours do so we do not have much choice in keeping the lane ways clear so we can use them.

With snow emergencies it is very imprtant to have a place to keep your vehicle off the street for plowing or it gets towed.

There is a complicated set of rules for how you can park on night plow routes, north, south, east, west, along with what side of streets and in what order for plowing.

It is very advantagous to have off street parking!

Tim