Plowing at 11pm

Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Live in Maine. The plow trucks at night are comforting background noise.


It is! To me, it is the sound of the city.
Anonymous
I really wish STFU Parents was still an active blog, this would be great fodder for it.

Anonymous
I guess you have no where to be tomorrow, or you would appreciate that they’re out clearing the roads while you’re home, comfortable in your bed, with your family all around you.

I guess there’s also that little point that no one wants to pay them to clear multiple times, so they have to come out in the middle of the night if that’s after the snow event.

Maybe look at why your children are so in need of perfectly dark, quiet conditions to sleep?
Anonymous
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Anonymous
Haha, op, I get it. Trying to work from home yesterday when I just got my toddler down for a nap and the plow truck went by, I felt fear and desperation about it waking up the kid.
Anonymous
Why don't you call the police and complain about the noise, OP? It's part of living here on snow day.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Incredibly loud rumbling and scraping. It's waking my baby and toddler up! The snow stopped hours ago and the city is just now plowing?! Please stop!


I knew you were gong to get a lot of flack. By 11pm my kids (at all ages) where out to the point that noise outside would not wake them up. Have you tried a white noise machine in their room(s)? It can drown out a lot of noise if they are such light sleepers.

If you think about it today I think you will realize that you do want the plows to do their jobs. If one of your sweet babies needed help and you needed to get out you'd appreciate that the roads where plowed.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Incredibly loud rumbling and scraping. It's waking my baby and toddler up! The snow stopped hours ago and the city is just now plowing?! Please stop!


Wait - you you think that regardless of how much has been plowed, the municipalities should stop plowing when it gets "too late," without regard for what the roads will look like for school and work commutes the following morning?

You're an idiot.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Incredibly loud rumbling and scraping. It's waking my baby and toddler up! The snow stopped hours ago and the city is just now plowing?! Please stop!


Yes, it would be much better if they didn't bother.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Incredibly loud rumbling and scraping. It's waking my baby and toddler up! The snow stopped hours ago and the city is just now plowing?! Please stop!


Roads need to be cleared. Tough luck about you kid. You would be the first person to complain if they didn't plow your street.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Haha. They plow in the middle of the night here. In fact, they plow night and day. It snowed 40 centimeters last week and they still have some side streets to clear. You should be grateful they are clearing the streets.


We may live in the same city (based on your use of cm and plowing description)! First it's plowing the roads, then the sidewalks, then they clear the snowbanks (a big middle of the night affair with line ups of beeping trucks) and then they move to the side street (we live on a corner) and do it all over again. If we're lucky it's done before the next storm.
Anonymous
11 pm is the ideal time to “plow” lol
Anonymous
White noise machine.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Incredibly loud rumbling and scraping. It's waking my baby and toddler up! The snow stopped hours ago and the city is just now plowing?! Please stop!


By all means, call the county and report the plows. Do it. See how fast they tag you as crazy.
Anonymous
When I had a newborn 3 years ago we had a huge storm. We finally got our street plowed after days at like 1am. I remember I wrote on the county's FB page a big thank you and said I didn't even mind that they woke the baby up. They apologized for waking the baby
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