It strange to hear that other cities are not prepared for Winter storms. We get
a foot and life goes on. Every now and then they require private plows to help
out or people with four-wheel drive vehicles to help those that are stranded.
Both rarely needed.
Last weekend we had quite a snow storm - left work early on Friday and spent
the weekend indoors. I stepped twice on Sunday to snow-blow the driveway.
We are responsible for sidewalks. I bought a smaller snow-blower which has a
tough time when it gets really bad outside. Good thing I have a great neighbor
who brings clears the sidewalk with this gigantic snow-thrower.
This weekend is a different story. Temps are in the 50's, snow melted quickly,
and now we have flood warnings.
>
> Actually, I think that is a *brilliant* solution that would
> work well
> here in Seattle and probably many other cities. We have a
> big
> snowstorm once every oh, seven or eight years, and when we
> do, there's
> a segment of the population that can't find anything
> more productive
> to do than to whine about how the city isn't prepared
> for snow, how we
> should salt the roads, have snowplows running down every
> side street,
> and so on. (Forgetting the cost of acquiring and
> maintaining all this
> carbon-spewing and/or nasty for Puget Sound stuff for the
> periods in
> between snow events.) I also like the idea that you're
> not only
> responsible for the sidewalk, but the street in front of
> your house.
> "Immigrants with shovels" is a low-tech,
> low-cost, distributed
> solution that is profitable for the workers, and
> (ultimately) solar
> powered. (Human energy is, after all, a form of solar
> energy.) We need
> more of that in the US.
>
> Rob in Seattle
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