Where you're putting the snow
Photo by Jamie Smith Hopkins
A few of your responses to the "so where should the shoveled snow go?" question:
Beth said, "We're about to head out to shovel our alley street near Patterson Park. I think we're going to put the snow in the alley (the part where the trash truck doesn't go). I know it's not an ideal solution, but we already have five foot high drifts in front of all of the houses on our block just from shoveling a walkway (not the whole sidewalk, just an 18 inch path!)"
From Gina: "We live in a townhome community - very tight when it comes to where to put snow. We ended up filling a wheelbarrow and taking it to one of the few grassy spots in the community and then throwing the snow there."
Kate wrote: "We only shoveled a path on one sidewalk on my narrow street. Snow from the street (shoveled, not plowed...even in regular snowfalls the city plows don't make it here) went on the other sidewalk. The drifts are taller than me."
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On my block we did what Beth did.We shoveled the snow into trashcans and put the snow in the alley where the trash trucks DONT go.
This way works best if everyone on the block works together.As i mentioned on an earlier post , a few blocks [ like mine] worked together and cleared the street by hand.now EVERYBODY on the block can get out.
On other blocks people only thought of themselves.They only dug out their own cars and threw the snow into the middle of the street.Now NO ONE on their street can get out.
Co-operation works a lot better than selfishly trying to look out only for yourself.
I have always found that snowstorms like this bring out the best AND the worst in most people. Fortuantly it brought out the best in most of my neighbors on the block.
Posted by: Pete from Highlandtown | February 8, 2010 7:21 PM