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twobullz said:
No more snow for a while hopefully. Shoveled three driveways today, one being a corner lot with a lot of sidewalk. The back needs a break. This was some wet heavy snow.
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Yeah, I did some today but only to make "snow mountain slides" for my toddler...it should be gone and melted by tomorrow I think...mostly!
 
twobullz said:
Yeah here the snowplows pile the snow up in large ice chunks in the driveway. Fortunately they came by about 10 last night so I hadn't shoveled any driveways yet this round. Sometimes I wish the Widow across the street from me didn't live on a corner lot. After our last house I said I would never live on a corner again. That is a lot of sidewalk to shovel. Now I do hers every time it snow grumbling about the corner lot, but if it was my mom I would hope someone would shovel hers. Interesting that all the households that have teenage boys in the neighborhood never have shoveled driveways.
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I never worried about shoveling my driveway... It'll melt in a couple days anyway.

If it stuck around all winter I'd get it, but just a week or so... What's the point?
 
Phatguysrule said:
I never worried about shoveling my driveway... It'll melt in a couple days anyway.

If it stuck around all winter I'd get it, but just a week or so... What's the point?
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When we first moved to Central Oregon I didn't shovel mine either, then one time we had a big snow and a hard freeze. We then had a large hump at the end of the driveway that my wife's car struggled to get over. Was the last time I didn't shovel mine.
 
twobullz said:
When we first moved to Central Oregon I didn't shovel mine either, then one time we had a big snow and a hard freeze. We then had a large hump at the end of the driveway that my wife's car struggled to get over. Was the last time I didn't shovel mine.
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If I lived in the valley I wouldn't bother but I'm above the county snow line....I clear the drive in case of emergency but also it gets me outside doing something when there's not much else to do out there......and the more you walk on snow banks the harder it is to get rid of the ice.....best to get it done while it's powder and let that get rinsed off.
 
Phatguysrule said:
I never worried about shoveling my driveway... It'll melt in a couple days anyway.

If it stuck around all winter I'd get it, but just a week or so... What's the point?
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People are assholes and sue happy. I don't want my sidewalk slippery. People still walk around the neighborhoods and are jackasses that don't pay attention to what they are doing.
 
Phatguysrule said:
I never worried about shoveling my driveway... It'll melt in a couple days anyway.

If it stuck around all winter I'd get it, but just a week or so... What's the point?
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I’m with you. Never shovel the snow. We don’t have big trees in front of our house, so I don’t do the leaves either. They blow away after awhile. My neighbors on either side of me are shovel/rake freaks. One leaf or a centimeter of snow and they are out there. Cracks me up. Just last week, they were out there after the first snow. I left for work and my sidewalk was covered. Hollered out the window laughing that theirs will look like mine the next morning….and it did.
 
In NJ, we got 12 inches in Cape May (lower tip of the State and a Victorian town.) I live in Mercer County and we got nothing.
 
No rain today but supposed to return Friday. Considering Virginia, suppose I shouldn't gripe about my soggy yard. Which autocorrect keeps trying to change to doggy. No dogs in my yard!
 
SlyPokerCat said:
People are assholes and sue happy. I don't want my sidewalk slippery. People still walk around the neighborhoods and are jackasses that don't pay attention to what they are doing.
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our hoa owns our sidewalks. Our property ownership ends at the sidewalk rather than the street. this is fairly rare, but I’m okay with it.
 
I got stuck on I-40 right outside of Flagstaff overnight last March on my road trip back to Oregon. 3 inches had fallen. It was pretty funny with the cops driving up and down the highway with their sirens blaring in the morning to wake everyone up and get moving.
 
3-4 inches of snow expected through our neck of the woods today. Snowing right now. About an inch down. Beautiful.

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Gonna be 13-degrees tonight. Brrrrrrrr.....
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
our hoa owns our sidewalks. Our property ownership ends at the sidewalk rather than the street. this is fairly rare, but I’m okay with it.
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That’s actually more of the rule than the exception, believe it or not. Sidewalks are almost always part of the city’s street or road right-of-way. Actually, many people are unpleasantly surprised when they discover their property line runs through the middle of their front yard rather than along the back of the sidewalk where they built their nice fence.

(I’m a surveyor and saw an opportunity here to flex)
 
Drought conditions:
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As long as those mountains are getting that snow pack!
 
Temperature expected to reach upper 60s F this week. No rain in sight. Have to water the garden.
 
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