Phase Two was an all-Tamara effort, really. I ran my car, brushed off the snow that had fallen since the previous clearing, and scraped the windows. Having gotten the thick layer of ice out on the way early, it wasn't as difficult as it could have been.
Long before I did that, Tamara did the heavy work, clearing all of our sidewalks and our next-door neighbor's front walk, too. Another of our neighbors with a snowblower had been doing the public sidewalks and Tam said that was a big help.
So we're ready for the next round of snow. It's several days off and so far, looks relatively small.
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18 hours ago
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As an obnoxious teen who walked to school, I was very vocally disdainful of homeowners who would clear the public sidewalk in font of their own house, but stop right at the property line (or worse, leave a snow-pile of the cleared snow blocking the walk at the property line! Many did this.)
"what's the point" I would exclaim, "of leaving no clear way to access the walk at either end?" And "Is it that much trouble to clear the extra few feet to the neighbor's driveway, so at least walkers have a path to get to the plowed street?"
Years later, my father mentioned that whenever he ran the snowblower he would remember my annoyance, and think of the kids using the sidewalk to get to school, and the walking to where the commuter bus picked them up, and would run the snowblower right to the end of the block and clear the crosswalk access too.
Years after that, when he put his back out and could no longer clear snow, we found that neighbors made sure that his walks were always clear after snowfalls.
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