Our snow storm on Thursday 7th kept schools closed. Then came the road clean up. I thought this would help those outside the U.S. understand a little more. In our little town the road crew pushes all the snow to the center of the road. A large snow blower then comes along and blows this into another truck. Once this truck is full, it is then dumped else where and comes back for another load until the clean up is finished.
We are going through the same thing out here! We have had schools closed not only because of the snow but because the maintenance crews have had to shovel the roofs! We've had a few buildings collapse under the weight of the snow :'( One good thing though...all this snow is good for my tulips, daffs and peonies!! Deanna :-D
That's unbelievable! I don't think the UK has had anything comparable since about 1963, the year I was born. It brings back to mind pictures shown on Brit TV when many oarts of the UK were flooded and the water was being pumped out. The question that sprung to my mind then was: where do they take it, like your snow.
They are hauling our snow out by the truck loads and dumping it in the canal or in empty fields and pastures! Amazing isn't it? Deanna :-D
Sharon: they usually take the truck full of snow to a field to dump it or for us I believe they take it to our fair grounds because its a very large area.
I see we've got different practices. Here the snow is shoveled to the side of the road and sits there until it melts. We get some tall bars in our drive entrance and in front of our house, and that's up to us to clear away. Snow is only moved away if there's lots of it in big junctions. I can't show any photos because of the lack of snow we're experiencing.
This is kind of unusual for us. They don't do this every time, only in extreme cases and this is one of those cases!!! Deanna :-D
Hi droopy, When I lived more down state in the city, they would just plow the snow to the sides and leave it. I guess since this is just a small town thier used to plowing all the snow to middle. Also where those plows are is our main downtown area and we have parking on the sides of the road due to small restaurant, icecream place, Hall, Pharmacy, etc.
When I was a kid living in Milwaukee they always had to remove the snow from the intersections because we got so much snow back then...there was no more room on the side of the road to plow it to. They would always dump it into Lake Michigan. I remember when you couldn't see if traffic was coming when you were at an intersection because the snow piles were so high. And once I remember having to climb out of my bedroom window to get out of the house because the snow was so high at the door we couldn't get outside! We've had quite a bit of snow here this winter, and it's great...still not like when I was a kid, though. Bring it on!!!
I'm actually amazed by the roads, they're black! With that much snow, here we'd have a nice snow cover on all roads, including the main ones. Like kaseylib I miss the heavy snow falls, even though it brings a lot of extra work. If this had brought warmer summers, I'd probably not mind as much, but we don't get that either.
I am rural so the snow just piles up. In town they have the same type of removal as you have Petunia. The streets are narrow and the snow gets piled too high to be able to see. I'm not sure where they dump it, but I have a feeling that it's at the fairgrounds as well.
I've just gotten back from our volunteer recycle and was told by our farm mill that with this last storm we are at 110 inces of snow for this year and we received 3 more over nite and another storm coming this week. So it looks as if we're looking at 120 or more before winter in done. At 120 inches, equals to 10 feet of snow.
While we have a lot of snow on the ground, just over 2 feet, it has been about average for us. Here the snow is plowed to the side and left. It is only cleaned up if a heavy snow is predicted and they need to make room for the new snow. Here are a few shots of our yard. They don't use salt on the roads here, so we have a snow base on the roads most of the winter. Also, I see references to studded tires, they were outlawed here 30 or so years ago. Tom
10 foot of snow is far too much for my liking! I'd like about a third of that, from December through February. Actually, Tom's amount of snow looks just about right. Enough to play in but not enough to make trouble. They are trying to ban studs here as well, then we'd all be using chains.
