This is my snow shovel.



Get Lost: /It's gonna be another long winter.

I went on a rant about snowplows yesterday on my local news site, so I'm just gonna copypasta and leave that here:

If you want your street cleared, you're gonna end up having to move some of that yourself. It stinks but that's the nature of the beast, until someone comes up with a better way to get rid of snow on the roads. (I like the idea of truck-mounted flamethrowers, but something about that ruining the road surface... and that whole public safety hazard thing.) If it really presents a problem for you, just wait until your street's plowed and THEN shovel your driveway. What could they do instead, schedule their plowing around everyone's personal shovelling schedule? Every person on every block in each beat that they have to cover? Should they have specially designated driveway shovellers to follow the plows around? Who's going to foot the bill for the amount of man-power and overtime that would take? They can't tell you what time your block is going to be plowed because a lot of it is up to mother Nature and she doesn't run on a schedule. Snow removal starts as soon as there's enough snow on the ground to warrant it; they don't have the luxury of running plows on a 9a-5p schedule because letting larger amounts of snow accumulate on the roads would create a serious safety hazard - which is exactly what they're out there to prevent. Some of those guys are out there driving plows for 16 hours at a clip, potentially more if it's a real big storm and possibly for days on end, just to ensure you can get to and from work, school, the supermarket, etc and that emergency crews can get to you if God forbid something should happen. Meanwhile it takes us maybe 30 minutes tops to shovel the plow berm out of our driveway. Give them a break.

/dad is a town plow driver
//hubs is a parks plow driver
///85% of the OSU employees in my dep't are state plow drivers
//safe to say that I'm extremely biased
/slashies