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| geroin |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
edit... from taking another look at your pic... You can blame and kick your neighbour's ass for piling on his snow on the road that the snow plow gladly pushed onto your driveway. If you're in the city of Toronto, one can get fined for moving snow from private property to city property. |
nah my neighbour got load as well
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| zokissima |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
no and i think she's right, most streets in toronto have 2 plows, one that cleans the snow and the other one that collects the remaining snow that was left by the first including the snow on the driveway.
So if i have back pain now how the am i going to get out if there is no one else to clean it up? (my brother is away, my dad just recently had a surgery and cannot do it). |
1) No, most streets in Toronto don't actually have two plows.
2) We had a major dumping of snow. Its a fact of living in Canada that you're gonna have to deal with the pile of ice. Its hardly the worst thing in the world to deal with. Note to self for next time: get a metal edge shovel so you can break up the ice easier, and take your time so you don't throw your back. |
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| Dr. DAS |
I have a similar problem...
Last week wwhen we had that storm, I made a point of shoveling my 50' of sidewalk (corner house) and driveway three times to keep ahead of the snow. I cleared the sidewalk from grass to curb, sculpted my snowbanks so snow doesn't fall down on the concrete again and went to bed content in the knowlwdge that ours was the only house on the street with a clean sidewalk. When I left for work at 5:30am the next day, there was maybe 2-3cm of new snow that had fallen overnight, compared to the 30+cm on everyone else's path. I was on top of the snow-covered world.
Around 7pm I returned home from work to fine the plow had come and pushed the snowbank up and onto my beautiful sidewalk, covering half of it. Because I had cleared it so wide a day earlier, I still had a decent width path and so I scooped off the new snow and left it at that. The next day, I returned from work to find the garbage truck had come by. In order to avoid climbing over the snowbank at the curb to access our cans, they had simply driven the truck op onto the embankment and forced the snow across the remainder of the path. Now the sidewalk is buried under a thick sheet of compacted snow and ice, which despite my best efforts remains intact.
I'm pissed. I refuse to re-shovel my sidewalk. My landlord recieved a ticket for not clearing the path. I explained the whole deal to him and now he's refusing to clean it, insisting that the city should clear it mechanically, because they ed it up.
Ah, winter. |
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| Jungle Fever |
| If you think this is a lot of snow, try visiting any other part of northern Ontario. If you can't handle the weather, move to a place that has no snow and deal with the earthquakes, tornadoes, torrential rains, hurricanes etc... that those beautiful places have to deal with. I don't mind cleaning my driveway as opposed to picking up the pieces of my driveway or house after a natural disaster. |
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by geroin
dude its not snow, it looks like snow, it's a big block of ice after it melted and froze overnight |
nothing that 1.5 tons of steel can't deal with.
I have yet to shovel any snow this year:p I usualy just go over, and no i don't have an suv. |
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| StereoPrincess |
i think that's nothing compared to what i deal with everyday parking on the street cuz i don't have a driveway. i wish i had your problems.
this happened to me earlier in the year but it has happened everytime there is any snow on the road. and even worse with the really hard snow.
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| Jeff Button |
I think you need to either.....
a.) buy a snowblower.
b.) move down south.
c.) hire a buff, young lad to do the shoveling for you.
Other than that, all I can say is this thread earns the WTF thread of the year award (so far, to date). LOL |
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| Abercrombie |
When I lived in Montreal, First there was a snowplow, followed by Snowthrower truck who blew the snow either (depending on the area) a snowbank created on the adjascent resident's lawn, or onto a dump truck that drives next to it, with a string of them following the snowthrower. Montreal handles snow so much more efficiently.
I gasped in awe the first time I ever saw Toronto's way of ridding snow from city streets... an ice melter truck, which crawls at a turtle's pace downtown, slowly melting the snow fed into it. lol |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
this happened to me earlier in the year but it has happened everytime there is any snow on the road. and even worse with the really hard snow.
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
I gasped in awe the first time I ever saw Toronto's way of ridding snow from city streets... an ice melter truck, which crawls at a turtle's pace downtown, slowly melting the snow fed into it. lol |
:wtf: :wtf: you serious? snow melter truck? |
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| King_Mack |
| ive decided that I need to invest in a snowblower. After we got pounded like crazy, Ive made first stance against doing any work outdoors lolol |
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| King_Mack |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
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HAHAHAHA
winner! |
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