Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 12:55     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:We shoveled multiple times. Then a plow came and pushed huge chunks of ice back onto the sidewalk. It melted and refroze while we were at work. It’s not possible to shovel anymore, or even break apart with a pickax.

Look, if the cities/counties cannot successfully plow this stuff with huge trucks, it’s not reasonable to expect humans with garden tools to do the same.


Delivery trucks and buses are still getting stuck in DC and the burbs.

And nobody owns a pick-ax.

My neighbor’s shovel broke as he tried to chop the ice.

Everyone needs to realize we aren’t equipped to handle this amount of snow and ice with such frigid temperatures. That doesn’t mean people are lazy or stupid; this is hard—even dangerous—for many people.

Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 12:47     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
We shoveled multiple times. Then a plow came and pushed huge chunks of ice back onto the sidewalk. It melted and refroze while we were at work. It’s not possible to shovel anymore, or even break apart with a pickax.

Look, if the cities/counties cannot successfully plow this stuff with huge trucks, it’s not reasonable to expect humans with garden tools to do the same.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 12:35     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
I can't wait for people to start calling for virtual learning. Just until the roads are safe.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 12:28     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
The MoCo Snow FB has a post with replies with pics, and someone posted a pic of a huge mound of snow at a school bus stop. In short: even clear sidewalks don’t allow kids to safely get on or off a bus. There’s a mountain of snow between the sidewalk and street.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 12:09     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There’s no need to shovel sidewalks in most areas. Only certain major roads lead to bus stops, metro, stores, etc. and those should be shoveled. But most interior neighborhood streets aren’t heavily traveled by people on foot…especially in these temps.

Tons of reports that major commuter routes were plowed and snow now covers the sidewalks with a thick wall of ice. Good luck with that.

I heard that CT Ave is only one lane in each direction, which means commuting downtown is basically impossible.


You are deranged and clueless about "most neighborhoods". There is absolutely a need to shovel in most of the neighborhoods where I live. My neighborhood streets are used by walkers throughout the entire year.


If they are walking dogs or walking for pleasure, there is no need for elderly or middle aged people to risk their lives or health for walkers.

The snow will melt if you give it a minute. Geez.

Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 12:09     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
To add to the above, large groups of kids walk to the bus stop in my neighborhood. There are many cars screaming down our neighborhood streets when those kids are headed to and from the bus stop. They have nowhere to stand because neither neighbor where they can stand have touched their sidewalks.

People are lazy.
Anonymous
Post 01/29/2026 12:07     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:There’s no need to shovel sidewalks in most areas. Only certain major roads lead to bus stops, metro, stores, etc. and those should be shoveled. But most interior neighborhood streets aren’t heavily traveled by people on foot…especially in these temps.

Tons of reports that major commuter routes were plowed and snow now covers the sidewalks with a thick wall of ice. Good luck with that.

I heard that CT Ave is only one lane in each direction, which means commuting downtown is basically impossible.


You are deranged and clueless about "most neighborhoods". There is absolutely a need to shovel in most of the neighborhoods where I live. My neighborhood streets are used by walkers throughout the entire year.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 17:16     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There’s no need to shovel sidewalks in most areas. Only certain major roads lead to bus stops, metro, stores, etc. and those should be shoveled. But most interior neighborhood streets aren’t heavily traveled by people on foot…especially in these temps.

Tons of reports that major commuter routes were plowed and snow now covers the sidewalks with a thick wall of ice. Good luck with that.

I heard that CT Ave is only one lane in each direction, which means commuting downtown is basically impossible.


kids walking to schools & school buses?

if you have a sidewalk, you should clear it.


Our neighborhood doesn’t have sidewalks—with the exception of the major road at the front of the neighborhood where the bus stop is (for school buses as well as public transportation).

ICYMI: even if the sidewalk is shoveled, there is a ginormous mountain of icy snow between the sidewalk and street…so how will people actually safely access a bus? Answer: by walking in the street. Nobody will climb over a massive wall of snow.

I hope schools remain closed on Friday.

Major roads are only plowed in certain lanes. Snow was plowed from the streets onto sidewalks. People are walking in the street and will continue to do so even if sidewalks are shoveled because you can’t walk into snow and scale a big mound of ice to get back onto the street and climb aboard a bus.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 13:36     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:I was shoveling, but took a break and then when I saw OP post, I decided it would be more fun to stop, just to make her seethe.


Seriously some snow shoveling nazis here.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 13:34     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:There’s no need to shovel sidewalks in most areas. Only certain major roads lead to bus stops, metro, stores, etc. and those should be shoveled. But most interior neighborhood streets aren’t heavily traveled by people on foot…especially in these temps.

Tons of reports that major commuter routes were plowed and snow now covers the sidewalks with a thick wall of ice. Good luck with that.

I heard that CT Ave is only one lane in each direction, which means commuting downtown is basically impossible.


kids walking to schools & school buses?

if you have a sidewalk, you should clear it.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 13:26     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Our sidewalks were dry yesterday after the service we paid hundreds to clear finished. Then at midnight the plow came and made am ice wall that got on part of the cleared sidewalk and all of our driveway apron. Woke up. Snow crew was promised this afternoon. Didn't come. We are in 70s with asthma, back, heart issues.
I don't know what to do. Neighbors are struggling with theirs. They know we pay service, no sympathy there.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 13:24     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Our sidewalks were dry yesterday after the service we paid hundreds to clear finished. Then at midnight the plow came and made am ice wall that got on part of the cleared sidewalk and all of our driveway apron. Woke up. Snow crew was promised this afternoon. Didn't come. We are in 70s with asthma, back, heart issues.
I don't know what to do. Neighbors are struggling with theirs. They know we pay service, no sympathy there.


So our service came. Cleared everything. Arlington sand salt truck cane down street.
Beautiful.
Then a guy with a snowblower filled the street in a 40 foot length with snow! I went out and asked him not to do that. He said no place to put it. I pointed out nobody else had done that. Started shoveling street. Not supposed to shovel.

Then he did it again!

Google searched phone number of owner of house, a rental property. She had hired him. I raised heck about it. She was apologetic. Said she would call him. I said he better fix street, sidewalk. We shall see.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 13:16     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Why don't you shovel it instead of whining about it?
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 12:39     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
There’s no need to shovel sidewalks in most areas. Only certain major roads lead to bus stops, metro, stores, etc. and those should be shoveled. But most interior neighborhood streets aren’t heavily traveled by people on foot…especially in these temps.

Tons of reports that major commuter routes were plowed and snow now covers the sidewalks with a thick wall of ice. Good luck with that.

I heard that CT Ave is only one lane in each direction, which means commuting downtown is basically impossible.
Anonymous
Post 01/28/2026 12:28     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
I was shoveling, but took a break and then when I saw OP post, I decided it would be more fun to stop, just to make her seethe.