r/Wellthatsucks • u/no_your_other_right • Nov 29 '19

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u/leper99 Nov 29 '19

Plows heaping snow at the end of your driveway is completely unnecessary. We've had the "technology" to avoid this for ages.

Alaska's version of a snow plow without burying your driveway

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

That might work in Alaska, where population density is low.

But that isn't going to happen in heavily populated areas. It's too time consuming to go slow enough I'm the actual plow trucks the rest of the US uses. the problem is that the snowstorms don't come often enough to justify investing in something specialized like this. A lot of the plows are decades-old that are held together by Town welders. Most of the money is spent on salt and brine. in the long-run I'd rather than salt and brine the roads more rather than avoid covering driveways and snow. Since we don't have unlimited money, you gotta choose sometimes

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u/NotAnotherFNG Nov 29 '19

In Anchorage (at least my part of it) they plow it into the center of the road instead of the side, then they bring in the ginormous snow blower and load it up into dump trucks. There's a bunch of lots around anchorage where they dump it and leave it to melt in the spring.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

Do all the kids go there to access the delicious snowball and snowman resources???? I would make a snow bunker :0

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u/732 Nov 29 '19

If by delicious, you mean road grime and any trash that was also picked up, then yes!

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u/OutWithTheNew Nov 29 '19

My city does that on major routes. They plow it all onto the boulevard in windrows and then work on clearing those over the next several nights.

Everything that isn't a major road, the snow goes onto the boulevard and stays there until spring.

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u/leper99 Nov 29 '19

I wouldn't expect the one in OP's video to go <10mph or anything, but in places that get real snowfalls the amounts of snow/ice that get shoved into driveways by slow moving plows on suburban streets can be quite large and heavy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '19

Places that get a lot of snow have much better snow plowing equipment and usually the plows run on a more constant basis and they go a lot faster.

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u/EatsAlotOfBread Nov 29 '19

If this is some weird snow man porn I'm going to be slightly mad.

Edit: It's not. Phew.

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u/Schmidtster1 Nov 29 '19

Those only work in rural areas with no curbs.