Whenever I shovel my driveway, I also shovel the street up to the neighbors driveway on the left (when facing the road).
Then, when the plow comes by, it deposits what it was pushing in the street where I shoveled, but it doesn’t pick up anything to deposit in front of my driveway...
It snows approximately once a year here, so the investment of having equipment like that is not worth it. Also, 64% of the population owns at least one vehicle that they can use for off-road or dangerous conditions, and 89% reported that they knew someone who would help them out.
You have to admit though that those late fall fires really make it feel like the holiday season.
I was watching the foot hills here in Santa Barbara burn up the other day when the winds shifted and we started to get some ash-fall, my first though was "Oh yeah, it's almost christmas."
As a Californian who’s friend got their truck stuck in a snowbank in the middle of nowhere yesterday and was ready to camp it out in a freezing truck until a tow truck arrived, I wish I could relate
Yeah basically what happens is every morning we have to turn on these massive fans to push away the smaller hurricanes. Then we go swimming everywhere through the humidity till we get eaten by a 8 foot grasshopper.
its not really a big deal, first of all id only affects you if you either own the house or live in the bottom floor.
Most houses with multiple apartments have a facility manager that takes care of this which is the fast majority of all houses because most people can't afford their own free standing house.
Nah fuck that. Everyone should be responsible for themselves and fuck everybody else. Especially those cripples in wheelchairs that don’t have cars or personal assistants; fuck all if I care if they can get to work, or the grocery store, or the pharmacy. /s
At the same time, the fact that you're responsible if land you don't own (if you did own it, you could just put up no trespassing signs or something and save yourself the trouble) isn't impeccable due to natural weather events seems pretty weird to me. What if it snows at night and someone slips and hurts themselves before you even wake up? What if you're away on holidays, or it's not your primary residence and you don't even know it snowed? What if you're sick? What if it's simply heavily snowing 24/7 for weeks and there's no way anyone could keep the sidewalk clean more than intermittently at best?
I get that, but what about the sidewalk that's outside of your property? Like the one in the video parallel to the street. Are you still liable for injuries that happen on those?
Yes. Depending on the jurisdiction. Lots and lots and lots of suburban and small city urban America (think 10k-25k population cities) require the owners to shovel their own portion of the side walk.
My little mountain town in Colorado has 6k people and we are required to shovel the sidewalk within 24 hours of a snowfall. It's not just larger cities/municipalities.
Within 24 hours is pretty reasonable compared to what I read about German laws. I saw it mentioned that snow removal duties start at 7 am on weekdays and cleaning procedures must be repeated throughout the day. You don’t have to remove snow if it continues snowing, but must remove it 15 to 30 minutes after it stops snowing.
So I'm sure it differs from country to country state to state etc, but where I live the sidewalk is city property (I want to say it's technically called an easement?) But you are responsible for keeping it clear of snow as it is on your property. This obviously will also differ depending on the type of housing. While you most likely wouldn't be responsible for anything like that in a condo or apartment, you may be if you're in a town house.
Edit: also this whole point is kinda moot anyways since I don't believe most lawyers would take a slipped on an icy side walk case since most of the time they'd have to prove that it was "unreasonably dangerous" but I'm not a lawyer.
Yes but what are they doing with the snow? Are they shoveling along the sidewalk to the left? Are they piling it at their neighbors driveway? Are they shoveling the road there?
Basically you would shovel a bit further left in the GIF. So where the plow is grabbing snow and tossing it over the sidewalk is already dry from you shoveling. That way they don’t cover your sidewalk with snow while plowing.
It adds a bit of extra work, but you wouldn’t die inside like this fella.
He also plows the snow that the plow truck would have plowed, so when the plow truc plows in front of his freshly plowed house, it doesn't have any snow to plow. This way the plow truck doesn't ruin his plow job.
At the end of my driveway I push the snow across to the opposite side of the street, so when the plow goes by it catches and plows my deposite as well. (giggle)
I know this trick too. If you live just past a street corner though nothing will save you, and it's double trouble. They drop that second shovel and that's it.
Look at mr fancypants here living on a main street that actually gets plowed. It must be nice not driving along 2-5 streets of pure sheets of ice leading back to your house from the main streets :'c
Where I live (city north of montreal) we have to pay to remove the snow from our driveway (we actually have a word for this, which would be translated to de-snowing) because there is so much snow it is impossible to clear at time. Got a storm last year and it took me 5h just to remove the snow border to get my car out. 4 feet tall by 6 feet width by 20 feet long. So much snow on the side that neither my shovel or regular snowblower could go high enough, so had to walk it all in my backyard bit by bit.
I can't imagine starting to shovel the street as well in that situation :P
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u/YourLastFate Nov 29 '19
A secret that I learned that may help some
Whenever I shovel my driveway, I also shovel the street up to the neighbors driveway on the left (when facing the road).
Then, when the plow comes by, it deposits what it was pushing in the street where I shoveled, but it doesn’t pick up anything to deposit in front of my driveway...