I don't understand these people who say they've never dealt with this before or that "you cant really just dig out of it." Of course you have dealt with this - plows don't skip the stretches of road in front of driveways when they plow the roads, that's absurd. They always plow and they always leave a wall of snow between the driveway and the road. The only difference is that this time around the temperatures are colder so it's frozen. My 59yo DH cleared ours in about 15 minutes yesterday AM - if he'd waited till midday it probably would have been even quicker.

Like other posters said, snowed in or not you’re lucky your street has been plowed. Ours hasn’t and it says it won’t be until late tonight. Even walking on our street is dangerous. One street over they’re plowed out with visible concrete. Sorry you’re dealing with the driveway issue but you’re lucky to be way ahead of a lot of us.

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Anonymous wrote:Return? We haven’t had a first go yet.

+1

+2 Montgomery County is the worst. I do not even believe their so-called snow map anymore which says 80% of my area has been plowed. Too many people showing up on next door saying they haven't been plowed.

The issue is this is no longer snow, you cant really just dig out of it. It’s a solid wall of ice. The streets are now iced over from people driving and compacting the snow down which has now frozen over from the little bit that melted from direct sun yesterday and they cannot plow that. I’ve watched just about every neighbor slip and fall at some point trying to remedy their driveway.

Anonymous wrote:That happens every time a snow plow comes by. You have to dig out again. Use a shovel to break up the ice. Or hire a neighborhood teenager.

+1

There my be resourceful teens or adults looking for snow work. Good luck, OP. We just got a plow pass at last after midnight and I see that wall...emailed snow removal person to come back.

Oh, I get it. This has never happened to us in the 10 years that I have lived in NoVa. The snow plows create some mounts, but I have never been locked in with a 4 foot mound of snow at my driveway. I think this time they simply had no place to put it on our street is white and has a huge 15 foot medium, which is all lawn. Ideally, they would have pushed some snow after that, but not this time.

I flagged down the snow plow when I was out shoveling, gave the driver a 20 and he made sure not to pile snow in front of my driveway or the immediate neighbors.

Anonymous wrote:Stop parking on the street if you have a garage or carport/driveway.

Ah yes. I’m sure people complaining about their cars getting buried have a spare carport or garage to use.

Stop parking on the street if you have a garage or carport/driveway.

Anonymous wrote:Wondering if anyone has had snow plows return yet to remedy the walling-in that they did when plowing residential areas?

Is this your first time dealing with snow?

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Anonymous wrote:Wondering if anyone has had snow plows return yet to remedy the walling-in that they did when plowing residential areas?

That's not a thing that they do.

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OP, you do realize you are fortunate that your street has been plowed at all?

OP: I do! But it doesn’t help me if I can’t get out of my driveway. A lot of other people are facing the same problem.

And yet you want the plows to swing by a second time when others haven’t been plowed once?

They are not returning.

But OP is special.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wondering if anyone has had snow plows return yet to remedy the walling-in that they did when plowing residential areas?

That's not a thing that they do.

+1

OP, you do realize you are fortunate that your street has been plowed at all?

OP: I do! But it doesn’t help me if I can’t get out of my driveway. A lot of other people are facing the same problem.

And yet you want the plows to swing by a second time when others haven’t been plowed once?

They are not returning.

Anonymous wrote:This happens with every snow plow in every area. Up north growing up, people snow blow the ridges after the plows come. Here, someone needs to shovel them. I’m sorry you have a bad heart and hope you can get a neighbor to help you. Perhaps you can post on Nextdoor or facebook. Someone will volunteer.

Sorry, but no. I’ve lived around here all my life and have never contended with a literal wall of ice atop solid sheets of ice. Worst we usually get his heavy, wet snow, which is a lot easier to deal with than this nightmare.

Anonymous wrote:This happens with every snow plow in every area. Up north growing up, people snow blow the ridges after the plows come. Here, someone needs to shovel them. I’m sorry you have a bad heart and hope you can get a neighbor to help you. Perhaps you can post on Nextdoor or facebook. Someone will volunteer.

Thank you!