Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 06:29     Subject: Re:If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you in MoCo? Take a pic of it and report it. They will get fined.


Not oP but we're in Arlington and have the same issue. Arlington "suspended" the ordinace due to the heavy snow/ice making it near impossible to shovel. Pisses me off that some of us were out 5 times yesterday shoveling and others are going to leave it there indefinitely.


Why does it bother you? Who made you go out 5 times?
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 05:12     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s not that easy to hire people to shovel your snow


Really? Most landscaping companies happy to have a season contract and work for their crews in the off month.


Ours isn’t happy, they actually hate it and tried to drop it but customers were really upset.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 05:09     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
We have a corner lot. My husband did shovel everything the first pass including the elderly neighbor but since then he has spent many hours just in our driveway and he comes in looking completely spent. This is a guy who goes to the gym almost daily fwiw.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 04:55     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:We always shovel our sidewalks, and went out and shoveled twice on Sunday. We figured we’d finish up on Monday morning. This stuff is different, and with the sleet unless you went out with a snowblower at about 8 pm on Sunday and no plow came by to block you in, you can’t move it. We spent yesterday hand carrying the icy chunks out of the street to break through the plow mound to be able to get our cars out at some point. No snowblower is going to work on two inches of fused ice. So only a tiny bit of our sidewalks are done and there’s no way we’re doing the bus stop near our house.


This. Yesterday afternoon I went out to clear our driveway, usually DH and I take turns when it’s this much. He had shoveled once on Sunday, but the sleet and ice came on top of it until 8pm.

It is a block of solid ice and even though we both work out a lot, we cannot get it to budge.

I’m not going to spend hours of back breaking work just to shovel my driveway that will eventually melt. Instead I’m working from home all week.

I’m not having a heart attack or have DH (55 years old) have one either.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 04:22     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
We always shovel our sidewalks, and went out and shoveled twice on Sunday. We figured we’d finish up on Monday morning. This stuff is different, and with the sleet unless you went out with a snowblower at about 8 pm on Sunday and no plow came by to block you in, you can’t move it. We spent yesterday hand carrying the icy chunks out of the street to break through the plow mound to be able to get our cars out at some point. No snowblower is going to work on two inches of fused ice. So only a tiny bit of our sidewalks are done and there’s no way we’re doing the bus stop near our house.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 03:47     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
We do
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 02:55     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s not that easy to hire people to shovel your snow


Really? Most landscaping companies happy to have a season contract and work for their crews in the off month.

Really, which ones? What area are you posting from? I’ve tried that route and the big companies all have contracts with HOAs. The small guys actually take a break from Dec-Feb and have no need to take on the work of shoveling.



It may be harder if you aren't a year round customer. Out regular landscaper does offer snow removal to customers. Costs a fortune but we got old.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 02:50     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:Because the professional crew that I hired prioritizes their big commercial clients first (govt buildings, gas stations, etc). They finally made their first pass at 5pm tonight.
At $800 min/pass, I’m not lifting a finger just to clear a walking path for you and your dog.

Instead, I sat in my home office all day making money. Mostly to pay for the snow removal…


Yeah, walk on the plowed street
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 01:49     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s not that easy to hire people to shovel your snow


Really? Most landscaping companies happy to have a season contract and work for their crews in the off month.

Really, which ones? What area are you posting from? I’ve tried that route and the big companies all have contracts with HOAs. The small guys actually take a break from Dec-Feb and have no need to take on the work of shoveling.
Anonymous
Post 01/27/2026 00:23     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:It’s not that easy to hire people to shovel your snow


Really? Most landscaping companies happy to have a season contract and work for their crews in the off month.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 23:43     Subject: Re:If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Are you in MoCo? Take a pic of it and report it. They will get fined.


Not oP but we're in Arlington and have the same issue. Arlington "suspended" the ordinace due to the heavy snow/ice making it near impossible to shovel. Pisses me off that some of us were out 5 times yesterday shoveling and others are going to leave it there indefinitely.


+ 1 in Arlington. we were out multiple times Sunday and then almost all day today as plows came through this morning and completely blocked us in.

Walking our dog is impossible and will be for quite some time. It's always the same homes that refuse to shovel, so nothing to do with the ice making it more difficult
- At least in our neighborhood.



Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 22:44     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
These are the same people that pay for a lawn service every week in the summer.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 22:43     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
DH joked that we didn't clear our sidewalk so that people would walk on the other side of the street (they walk past our house on the way to the trail all the time).
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 22:42     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
We cleared our driveway and were too exhausted to clear our sidewalk.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2026 22:34     Subject: If you live in a $1-3 million house why don’t you shovel your sidewalk
Most of my neighborhood does, but my immediate neighbors are just generally aholes and don’t bother even though we have senior citizens and school kids who walk to school.