February 25

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Another Woman vs. City encounter.  This neighbor hustled out there and emphatically caught the attention of the guy driving the machine.

I don't know what her topic was, but she talked to him for several minutes.

BIG machine, big man, small woman..........

Maybe she's pointing at the location of one of the storm drains......  There is one, about there.

"Look, lady, I just do what I'm told."

Then they went across the street and talked about that for a while.  I put this pic here mostly to show how high the snow is....

Also notice how icy the road is........................



Eventually she went home, and he started moving snow/ice.

That thing can move a LOT of snow/ice in one scoop!  Enough that we'd be moving it off our sidewalk for hours, if it landed there...........

It was sort of weird, watching as the rear end of the machine slid sideways as it worked at pushing.  Just goes to show -- when it's slippery enough, NO machine can be trusted to go exactly where you want it to go!



He carefully put the snow on the lawn extension.  It's hard to imagine that none of it ended up on the sidewalk, but very little of it did, relative to the volume of snow/ice moved.........

Note yet another neighbor on the sidewalk.  There are really quite a lot of us who are home in the daytime........

I don't know that I'd be standing quite so close to that thing, when it was in action.

Note schnauzer in lower right corner.  That's Pete.  I don't know what the man's name is.

Snow was moved, but for what purpose, we have no idea.  No storm drains were cleared as a result of this activity...........


Much later in the day.  Trying to get my walk in.

Where the neighbors have shoveled, it's no problem.  Unfortunately, there are too many neighbors who haven't lifted a finger to move any snow.  (Shame on them!)

Note very high  snow.............

This neighborhood road is very wide.  I don't know why.  It's wide enough that even with all the snow in the road at the sides, it's still wide enough for two cars to pass, which makes it less scary for pedestrians.  The fact that it's a neighborhood road, and doesn't really *go* anywhere, aside from within the neighborhood, means there's very little traffic on this road.

I walked half a mile up, and then turned around and walked half a mile down.

I listened carefully for traffic, and got well off the side whenever anyone was going to go by me.  I wondered why a couple of the dozen or so that went by, as I walked my mile, came within six feet of me.  They had the whole )#(&$*&^ road to drive in; why give me ANY reason to wonder if they were being cautious for me?  ?????????????????  Dirtbags.

(I was wearing my reflective vest; there's no way they didn't see me............)

Sigh.


If it ever comes to pass that I can walk on safe dry sidewalks again, I'm going to be grateful for that.  Even when it's too hot.

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