Is your area in FCPS still bad?

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Anonymous wrote:sorry... on my street there are homes where they have cleared out their driveways, yet not the sidewalks. The county should have the right to ticket these folks.

We had a lot of this in my neighborhood. People would get their own driveways nicely shoveled out and not touch their sidewalks. They take care of themselves not don't worry about their community.

I agree that anyone who can do so should clear their sidewalks at least passably. But before you grouse about unshoveled walks -- First, have you offered to help anyone shovel? And do you know the circumstances of every single household you pass that doesn't have a shoveled sidewalk?

Maybe some of them are older folks or people with medical conditions. And not everyone like that has someone they can just call to come dig a sidewalk. If they do have someone to help, I can see how the driveway would be more important so people can get out to a pharmacy or the doctor or just to get food. I guess you'd call that "taking care of themselves and not worrying about their community."

We can shovel for ourselves at our house, and on Sunday, we completely shoveled our sidewalk that's about 4x longer than our neighbors' because we're on a corner. But a second pass with the snowplow pushed all the snow from the corner intersection into our yard, burying about 70 percent of our sidewalk. The piles are five feet high. That's not an estimate, either. Those piles are now pretty much solid ice.

I'm truly NOT blaming the plows -- we were glad to see them, the roadway has priority, and the snow has to go somewhere. It ends up with us because we're on the corner. that's OK; we got plowed and that's more than many places did. We are fine with the snow dump because we know many people who have half a lane of road at most and we're at least able to get out.

I'm just noting for you that not everyone has a sidewalk that can be shoveled, either because of medical or age issues, or lack of help, or because circumstances like plowing have created issues. Yes, we'll try to dent the snow mountains ASAP, but not until we can do it without having to shovel solid ice at the level of our heads.

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Our neighborhood is still one lane. No way we return to school like this. Maybe the warm weekend will melt a lot of it?