Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in a place with basically daily snow, and it was understood that you get up early and shovel as soon as anyone might need a sidewalk. People like nurses or blue collar workers would be out there at 4-5 am to make their shifts. Getting down to bare pavement or concrete was the goal and a point of pride. Leaving it until lunch is embarrassing.

I never understood this.

Either you live in the city in an apartment where you don't have your own sidewalk to shovel, or you live in the burbs or rural where no one is walking anywhere important past your house on a snowy morning.

Who needs the sidewalk in front of your house?

Literally everyone in a DC rowhouse. Hello??

Yesterday morning while having breakfast (8 AM) my neighbor shoveled the sidewalk in front of our houses down to the street corner. How kind of him, I thought. I went out around 10 and shoveled the walkway from the sidewalk to my door. The snow was light and fluffy and very easy to clear.

I didn't give it much thought till today when walking the dog, I realized it does make a huge difference if you shovel as soon as the snow has stopped and when it's light and fluffy. The people who didn't shovel or were lazy about it ended up with icy sidewalks because when a bit of snow did melt under the sun yesterday afternoon, it refroze as soon as the temperature dropped and turned into ice. And it remains ice. And the melt/refreezing over the next few days will leave black ice.

But those who cleared sidewalks early on had no ice.

Definitely have learned from this.

Very icy indeed!

Some people can’t shovel, or the ice refroze after they did, and as a result sidewalks are treacherous where I live. I’m glad MCPS kids aren’t walking to school in this mess. I have to walk my dog, and I’m super careful.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You sound like my neighbor. Sorry I have to work and I have 24 hours after the snow stops to shovel. I will get to it at lunch, or more likely, after work. Especially when businesses seem to be the last to shovel.

I don’t need to get up at 6 AM to shovel so you can go on a morning walk with your dog.

If someone falls on your ivc sidewalknand breaks a leg or arm, you get sued even if you're within the 24 hour period.

No you won’t. Seriously. Don’t just make up stuff.