Yeah, when I heard “snow ramp” I was expecting an actual, you-know, ramp.
Sounds like someone who was driving too fast fr conditions.
I’m not sure I can think of any idiots I really care about. If I did have such people in my life, I doubt I would support considerable effort and expense to save them from themselves.
What about the idiot coming up behind you, ready to knock you up and over a snow ramp because they can’t slow down?
The logical thing would be for the government to not plow. They only have liability because they tried to help.
A college friend of mine ended up on the median strip because of this sort of thing.
If they pick the snow up isn’t it technically point source pollution. I knew a guy that did street sweeping for parking lots. He had to treat all his waste water. Someone should sue.
I remember someone (Neil deGrasse Tyson?) talking about what it would take to change the path of a hurricane. The person he was interviewing jokingly made the comment that if the a hurricane hits land and destroys a city, it’s an Act of God, but try to stop the hurricane and maybe just end up nudging it into a busy metropolitan area and now it’s an Act Of Jeff or Mike or whoever hit the button.
And while he was making a joke, I assume there’s some truth to it.
Regarding not cleaning up the snow in the first place, I’m thinking that wouldn’t work since the city has a duty (I assume…I hope) to keep the roads clear and safe.
That sounds highly jurisdictional and probably depends on how much snow your area is used to getting. In my area, it’s not uncommon, over the course of the winter, for the snow to build up so much that you have to actually haul it away. A common sight as you move towards Spring are enormous mountains of snow in remote corners of large parking lots. Granted, a lot of that is from their own lot, but other businesses/cities will often make deals with the property owners to dump snow there.
As for pollution, I think a lot of that is just from all the crap that gets scooped up with it. It’s my, possibly incorrect, understanding that that’s why people are trying to find parking lots and fields to dump their snow when we’re spitting distance from Lake Michigan.
Naw, that could never happen!