Snow Plow Drivers Needed

Factual Questions
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I ran into my X the other day… it was a new experience for me… i’d never driven a snow plow before.

Anyway, onto the question:

In Michigan (as well as most of the Midwest) we got dumped on by a few Giga-tons of snow… so I was wondering, (since i’m literally snowed in and can’t make it in to work (which also means i get to flood SDMB w/ all kinds of ‘funny’ posts)) if I was to attempt to make it out of my driveway… and got stuck in the foot of snow that covers the lenght of my road (i have a itty bitty Cavalier, so it wouldn’t take much)… and decided to leave it in the road because I had no way of getting it out… And say… Monday, a snow plow happens to decided to finally clear my road… (the actual Question! —> ) How would the snow plow driver navigate around the stuck car in the middle of the road?

Would they simply drive around it (if that was even possible)? Smash the car to the side? Call a tow truck? (assuming of course, that the car is obviously abandoned and mostly blocking the road)

Anticdotal posibility: My car died in the middle of last years blizzard (died altenator) and i had to leave it in the middle of a crossroad intersection (the less busier portion luckily… after nearly getting plowed into from the rear by a Semi who refused to slow down)… and a plow went through before I could return to fix it… and he drove around the car… but there was a lot of room to manuever… my hypothetical Q is: what if there ISN’T enough room to manuever? then what?

I’m bored, so sorry for the lame Question :smiley:

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Here in minnesota, they usually tow ya first. But where I live, it seems that they plow around your car then come tow/ticket you after.

Driving a Plow Truck on the weekends, not the huge highway ones, just a ford with a plow, I can get in and around some pretty tight spots with no problems. Im sure those plow guys wouldn’t have a problem driving around you if they could. Im also willing to bet that they are going to try to kick up as much snow around/on your car as possible too. :slight_smile:

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Second That, you never think about the real reason why the car is in the middle of the intersection. Its just in your way and pisses you off. now I feel bad :frowning:

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Slight hijack: I saw a car today at the farthest reaches of Walmart’s parking lot that had been packed in solid by the plow guy. Not a nice thing to do.

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that’s hillarious… when you take into consideration that that is where i work :smiley:

-Jester-

Iron Smiths master in irony.