If you get stuck in slush on a city street, you deserve to get stuck.
Floor pan eight inches from the road on a twelve inch curbside slush bank. Are you up to lifting a car out of its parking place?
Snow IS an oddity out there ain't it? ;-)
If you get stuck in slush on a city street, you deserve to get stuck.
Floor pan eight inches from the road on a twelve inch curbside slush bank. Are you up to lifting a car out of its parking place?
Snow IS an oddity out there ain't it? ;-)
Not so odd if the snowplow has to raise its blade at driveways.What would be an oddity is a twelve inch slush bank....whatever that is. I always have good tires and I usually carry a bag of sand and a shovel. I've spent Winters in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and B.C.. I try not to get myself in situations where I'm likely to get stuck. Nanaimo is probably one of the most kindly places in Canada for Winter drivers.
Not so odd if the snowplow has to raise its blade at driveways.
Be good if they did raise the blade at the driveways but they don't.. I can drive through the pile the snowplow leaves at the end of the driveway but the poor guy on the other side of the street has to shovel the sidewalk under threat of fine and the plow comes by three times a day. If I had my way they would give the snowplow driver a shovel.
I'm gonna be less popular than a roomful of rocking chairs is to a long-tailed cat, but having been the "evil-doer" behind that plow blade on too many sleepless nights, I can't get out and clear out every driveway the snow off my wing fills. Sorry, but it's got to go somewhere, and snow just naturally seeks to get away. Your open drive, along with 20 million others in this Great White North is the place it runs. We could stay off the roads ... but then you would too. Again, on behalf of plow operators everywhere, Sorry about that.
Be good if they did raise the blade at the driveways but they don't.. I can drive through the pile the snowplow leaves at the end of the driveway but the poor guy on the other side of the street has to shovel the sidewalk under threat of fine and the plow comes by three times a day. If I had my way they would give the snowplow driver a shovel.
Talk about your deja vu....:lol:
Quoting lone wolf I'm gonna be less popular than a roomful of rocking chairs is to a long-tailed cat, but having been the "evil-doer" behind that plow blade on too many sleepless nights, I can't get out and clear out every driveway the snow off my wing fills. Sorry, but it's got to go somewhere, and snow just naturally seeks to get away. Your open drive, along with 20 million others in this Great White North is the place it runs. We could stay off the roads ... but then you would too. Again, on behalf of plow operators everywhere, Sorry about that.
Three times a day? I've seen a Grader on my street (with his blade down)
once in the last six years. Usually they tool up my street with their blade
about two feet up so that it's no where near the snow. I always wanted my
street plowed, even once, until it happened. Yeah.....it was one of those,
"careful what you wish for" situations.
Before:
...and After:
.....and After I dug out a hole to park my car in:
I remember last year when all that snow fell in Vancouver ( Christmas Time ) and I could barely pull out of my driveway. They plowed the parking lot of my Strata and I was in the same boat as you Ron, as I came home to a driveway full of packed snow wishing I would have left well enough alone..
I don't think you understand how it is here Karrie. The City does not pay anyone to clean the public sidewalks. People have to walk on the plowed pavement because the snow on the sidewalks is too deep for the brief time we have it. That is pretty dangerous walking. Like Juan says, it would be better to either leave it or throw down a little salt. We had about 6 or 7 inches of snow by bedtime last Monday night. By 7:30 Tues. A.M. the rain had taken that down to about 3 inches. The ridiculous local schoolboad closed all schools except for the University and 17,000 students plus the teachers all got the day off. No one was having difficulty getting around town. The only left over snow is that which was plowed into a big pile. When we look at the forecast and see "rain" we don't do something foolish like shovel the driveway. Some of our neighbours did. They have snow down the sides of their yards. We don't have any.You don't get how the precedent is the safety of the road? And that if you want individual entrances cleaned, you're welcome to petition and get your taxes raised to pay for the extra equipment and man time? I'm pretty sure you get all that just fine juan.
You west coasters sound like a bunch of whiners. :canada:
They don't have to clean driveways - just lift the blade so they don't block them either. As I said earlier, that's what the grader driver in PG did.Prority #1-clean the road,school bus routes are top priority,graders arent cheap to run and if you knew how many "personal" requests they get for special treatment on driveways you would be amazed.
You can do one pass down a city or town block in under a minute,factor in all the requests to clean driveways and add another 20 minutes,then dont bitch when your taxes go up.
Karrie that is just baloney. We are talking about Nanaimo, not Edmonton where you have freezing temperatures for five months of the year. It doesn't make Nanaimo streets safer to plow crusted snow and ice onto my driveway. It would make more sense to spread a bit of salt and sand. It is going to rain the following day or two anyway. Plowing a three foot barrier across my driveway is as unnecessary and stupid as plowing that three foot swath of snow onto the sidewalk on the other side of the street and expecting the private citizens to clean it up for the second or third time in a day or face a fine. A little respect and reason would solve this easily. It wouldn't cost a lot to lift the snowplow blade at each driveway. Hell, the four or five inches of snow we got three days ago is gone because it has rained for three days. Why inconvenience people without good reason?
I don't think you understand how it is here Karrie. The City does not pay anyone to clean the public sidewalks. People have to walk on the plowed pavement because the snow on the sidewalks is too deep for the brief time we have it. That is pretty dangerous walking.
Karrie that is just baloney. We are talking about Nanaimo, not Edmonton where you have freezing temperatures for five months of the year. It doesn't make Nanaimo streets safer to plow crusted snow and ice onto my driveway. It would make more sense to spread a bit of salt and sand. It is going to rain the following day or two anyway. Plowing a three foot barrier across my driveway is as unnecessary and stupid as plowing that three foot swath of snow onto the sidewalk on the other side of the street and expecting the private citizens to clean it up for the second or third time in a day or face a fine. A little respect and reason would solve this easily. It wouldn't cost a lot to lift the snowplow blade at each driveway. Hell, the four or five inches of snow we got three days ago is gone because it has rained for three days. Why inconvenience people without good reason?
They don't have to clean driveways - just lift the blade so they don't block them either. As I said earlier, that's what the grader driver in PG did.