Today the neighbors who have not yet shoveled their cars off came out to do so. You know, the lazy ones. Well, all the areas you can put snow are…already higher than your head.
So you have to either walk many yards with each load of snow or…fill in where someone else has previously shoveled.
So far I’ve caught:
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[li]The neighborhood kids-for-hire shoveling off someone’s car for money and dumping some of the snow in my spot[/li]
[li]The male friends of the foreign lady downstairs, who came over and parked in my spot while they shoveled her spot’s snow into one of the cut-throughs we use to reach the parking lot rather than carry it a few more feet[/li]
[li]The twentysomething boys at the end of the row who shoveled out their two cars by filling in the cleared sidewalk and completely burying the last accessible trash container[/li][/ul]
In several other places the painstakingly-cleared sidewalk has been filled in but I don’t know who did it; my wife caught people shoveling snow out into the roadway (no plows are coming back through, even though they assumed that would take care of it) and several people have had their snow shovels stolen. One guy even lost boots and weather gear.
We’re a few steps closer to Lord of the Flies status here.
Well for the second time during this snow event, the feds will close down [tomorrow] but the DC Gov has announced that it will, for some reason, be open.
I’d better see an office full of productive civil servants when I get in tomorrow.
Considering that we’re expecting another foot or so of snow between tomorrow night and Wednesday, I’m glad I got more milk. This week is going to suck, too.
Looks like this second round of Snowpocalypse is gonna hit us here in the Midwest. sigh Just when I thought we’d escaped.
A bunch of my classmates went to DC for the weekend on a career fair type trip and are stuck there. (Which is excellent for me, my econ exam got postponed as a result.) They’re gonna get back to Michigan just in time to get a shitload of snow here, too.
That’s pretty much what my Giant looked like Thursday. Though for some strange reason they’ve had plenty of bread and milk, both of which I got.
The Lowes had salt tonight, which is a good thing since I was running out. Though no shovels, and I could use another one now.
We’ve been throwing the snow across the street, I’m not sure where the hell we’re going to put another 10-20 inches. I got on top of the huge pile o’snow and cut down a few feet just to be able to put on more, I was afraid it was going to fall on me as I was doing it.
I’m glad the feds are closed, no work again for me, though my wife has to go in. Not that the MARC would be running anyway. I don’t think we’ll be going in on Wednesday either.
I expect that the feds will be closed Wednesday as well, and Thursday has got to be considered chancy. Thank goodness none of the work I do is useful to society.
I can’t decide if I want to try to go to Giant this morning or not. On one hand I have an icy driveway + yucky road + RWD + probably decimated shelves, but on the other hand I haven’t left my house in 5 days + if we get another foot of snow there will be no place to put it and I might not have another chance to get out until the weekend + I would feel better if I could look around the store and maybe get a few things.
I saw a Papa John’s delivery car on Sunday. (Personally, I don’t ask anyone else to drive in conditions that I’m not willing to drive in.) I think I was more surprised that they were open than that someone had called for delivery!
Yeah, that’s what I’m worried about with today’s snow. There was already nowhere to put it all! My solution on Sunday was to dump it all in my front yard, but now those piles are too high for me to add to – mostly because that was also the HOA Bobcat driver’s solution. I guess we’ll see what happens.
TruCelt and I are storm twins. We have a toddler as well and we haven’t seen a plow. In fact no one has been able to leave our street. I hitchhiked to the Giant yesterday.
Our crazy Air Force guy is still at it, he is attempting to shovel the entire street by hand. So far he has made it about 1/4 of the way, but that is amazing in itself. It is shoveled in a completely square, perfect military way down to pavement. Give him another couple of days and we won’t need a plow.
I face a shovelling moral issue though. This effort is obviously crazy. There is no way you can shovel an entire street by hand. However, I feel guilty, like I should go out there and help him with the project. I am impressed and I do feel a sense of solidarity in the effort, but ulimately, some day the plow will come and this will all be for naught. So do I stay in my house and build a fire or go help the army guy?
fruitbat, here’s my perspective as a military guy, myself:
Stay inside, build a fire.
If you help, he’ll be grateful. If you don’t, he won’t care – he’s committed to doing it anyways.
Is he army or air force? Chances are, depending on how long he’s been in, he’s been asked to do worse.
Or better yet, brew some coffee/hot cocoa, offer him some, and split the costs of hiring someone to come plow your street. After this next storm, of course.
Or you can mobilize the neighbors. 5-6 people out there shoveling is way more effective and much more in the realm of possiblity/practicality.
We had a toddler (Dweezil, then 17 months old) during the 95-96 week of blizzards and he was going stir crazy. We lost our “Barney” virginity that week :::shudder:::
On the Wednesday, we finally made it out of our neighborhood (townhouse). As we went bumping along the road through our neighborhood, Dweezil sat in his car seat, shouting “WHEEEEEE!”.
Yeah, I think that’s the real difference. Our driveway isn’t terribly long - it is “only” 30 feet long by 18 feet wide (Typo Knig measured it yesterday so he could figure out how may cubic feet he and the kids moved). But it is a lot more snow than simply digging out a car. We’re debating parking our cars in a line in the driveway tonight. That will leave one “line” clear most of the way to the garage door. If I’ve got to have people lugging in cases of Girl Scout cookies tomorrow morning, that will minimize the actual shovelling that needs to be done.
I went out and got lots of food for the next few days. More than I will eat before I get out… But if I don’t get myself dug out, at least there is stuff here.
Wisconsin here. I picked up a clearance cake and milk this morning. That was breakfast. Now I have to start on the driveway. You were supposed to keep all of the snow.
I am back from my first shift of helping. My testosterone got flowing and I just couldn’t stand to watch this guy doing something while I sat inside. We are actually making progress and I think we just may shovel the entire street before the next round of snow comes. Of course that raises this question:
Our street is made impassable to all vehicles by 24 inches of snow.
We shovel all of that along the entire street.
Another 10-15 inches comes later that day.
What is the point? If we can’t drive through 24 inches, will a foot be any more passable? I really feel like I am working my way through one of the levels of purgatory.
Now I have to start on the driveway. 
You were supposed to keep all of the snow.