Especially when those first tracks head straight for the ditch. Karma’s a bitch sometimes.
Or for more fun: The car trying to pass is a rear-wheel drive sports car passing the plow line on the right.
Yeah. I’ve seen a car disappear trying that stunt.
Natural selection, I guess.
OP is an idiot.
Snowplows push snow off of the fucking road. Which means anything on either side of the road is going to have snow pushed into it. This includes your friend’s driveway, your sidewalk, and your slack-jawed maw should you happen to be standing there.
The plow drivers repeatedly fill the end of my driveway with hard-packed snow, blast my mailbox to smithereens, and drive at 15mph down the interstate, and I love them for doing it.
You mean the end of your dock down by the city, right?
I’d have been thrilled to have to shovel snow out of my driveway because it would have meant a plow had come through and there might be a chance I could get groceries. But we never see a plow because we’re a tertiary street with a steep drop-off on either side. When it snows, we’re stuck unless a neighbor puts a blade on a truck and opens a lane for us.
This has to be the stupidest pitting ever. Top ten, at the very least.
My problem today is that they didn’t plow enough of the road. Our mailbox is on the side of the road, but today they plowed so bad they were four feet away from the mailbox! So tomorrow we have to somehow shovel out snow that is 4 feet wide, 4 feet deep, and 12 feet long so the mail truck can get to our box. Yeah, we didn’t get any mail today. Thanks asshole.
Our house is also very close to the road. Last year they were plowing slush, going way too fast. The slush actually broke a window in our kitchen, both the storm and the regular window. Our kitchen was full of glass and slush. If I had been sitting at the table in front of the window, I’d probably be dead. We called the highway foreman and he said “Yeah the driver called and said he thought he might have broken somebodies window.” Well, thanks for checking up on that. At least they paid for it to be replaced with super thick plexiglass.
We live on a corner, and one time they turned slightly to the right and plowed the snow 20 feet over the lawn right up against our house. Completely covering the windows, right up to the roof. After a phone call they sent out a front end loader to remove the snow. Now we have giant boulders at the edge of the yard to stop plows. They hit one once and rolled it 3 feet, never done it again.
So yeah, fuck snow plow drivers, in my experience. I don’t care how long it takes them to get around to my area, I’ve got an AWD Subaru with snow tires if I really need to get anywhere.
I love snow plow trucks. With all the crap people spout about how horrible they think the public sector is, a plow truck on a snowy day is a great sight.
I guess I’m lucky. If I’m not outside, the end of my driveway will get filled in by the plow truck. If I happen to be outside shoveling at the time and the end of the driveway is clear, the driver will raise his plow briefly when going by to minimize the fill-in. If the end of my driveway is full of snow and I am shoveling toward it, I have seen him veer in a bit and scoop out as much as he can on his way by.
an angled plow has to move fast enough to throw the snow.
they have to also cover the whole territory to keep all the streets/roads clear for traffic. while doing this they have to miss cars and curb/road mailboxes.
they do a good job.
i also clean some of the street/road upstream from my drive when i clean my driveway, if the street/road hasn’t been plowed. that allows the plow to spill its load before my cleaned apron. what little gets on the apron can be driven over or shoved quickly.
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I want to see those bitching about plow trucks get out there and do the job for one winter. Show 'em all how it’s done, and then come tell us what it’s like.
“Señor Plow no es macho y pienso es boracho.”
(We’ve been looking for a project to do together for a long time)
It depends on how the plow is set up. Street plows often have what is called a ‘gate’ that can be raised or lowered by the operator from within the cab of the truck. The gate is just a small auxiliary plow blade that is attached to the right side of the main plow blade and angled forward. When the operator comes to a driveway, he lowers the gate, which diverts the snow back into the main blade, which is then carried past the driveway. Now if the driver is too lazy to be bothered with using it, then he’s just being a dick.
Outside of residential neighborhoods, plows have to move at a high enough speed to move the snow either off the street or into a center berm. Yeah, it’s going to end up on the sidewalks in the former instance, especially if they’re using a rollover plow (the hemi-funnel shaped blade).
Hijack bitch.
I love where I live, I really do. I have my own plow truck. I have plowed every day for the last 9 days. Twice last Saturday.
I’ve winched my truck out once (I have a winch on the back), my neighbors plow out once and my SUV out 3 times. The plow truck has great new tires and is chained up.
Today, I plow again. I’ve no place to put the snow. And March and April are typically very, very big snow months. For the first time in 22 years of living here, I’m a bit concerned.
I’m just gonna suck it up til I can move south again.
Living in the cold and snow really blows.
Breakaway mailboxes are available which are designed to take a hit and be easily reassembled. Takes about 2 minutes to put mine back together.
Thanks, I actually invented my own. I sunk a steel pipe in the ground and then put a larger capped pipe over that so it would rotate and attached the mailbox assembly to that. I drilled a hole through both pipes near the bottom and I put a cheap bolt in there to act as a poor man’s shear pin. Works like a charm!