Reached the entrance of my suburban crescent this evening to find a grader blocking access as it manoeuvred to aim itself in the right direction and lowered its blades. With a sinking feeling, followed the corntraption as it ponderously plowed along, filling every driveway with a great windrow of muck (that might once have been snow and ice) … including mine. Parked the van in the street, clambered over the pile, spent half an hour shovelling the heavy stuff down to the point where I could move the van in. Ouch. 
Stop the grader next time,hand him a couple six packs,tell him for doing such an excellent job in plowing,wait half an hour and call the cops ,tell 'em the driver must be impaired! Manfred
Many years ago I was busting 4’ drifts at 60mph trying to get home. This went on for several miles, until I hit a drift several hundred feet long.
I made it about 3/4’s of the way through, before grinding to a halt within sight of my driveway. I walked up the drive to grab a snow shovel.
As I was walking back down, a National Guard plow with a 12 foot tall blade came through and buried my truck. My truck was completely covered.
It took me two days to dig it out That was the last Winter I spent up north 
Ralph
When I was growing up in Iowa, my mom would always give the local road crew a Holiday card with some cash in it. We never had to dig out our driveway.
MANFRED Diel said:Nah, they have a job to do, and by and large they do it very well. Had I been 5 minutes earlier home, I'd be shovelling my way out in the morning to get to work :(. At least this way, I got to go inside and get a hot supper.
Stop the grader next time,hand him a couple six packs,tell him for doing such an excellent job in plowing,wait half an hour and call the cops ,tell 'em the driver must be impaired! Manfred
And just think…some people have to drive several hours to “play” in the snow.
Brrrr! Not for me. hehe!
Our plow guys are excellent around here but then yet we pay for it with the highest taxes in the nation ugh. We can have three feet of snow and the roads are cleared within a few hours of the snow stopping. I still will never be caught without 4 wheel drive especially since I have to go to work no matter what the weather is like.
Shawn wasn’t kidding.
Worst States for Property Taxes
The Tax Foundation found that homeowners in these states paid the most in property taxes compared to home value. The percentages represent the percentage of home value that homeowners pay in property taxes.
New Jersey - 1.89%
New Hampshire - 1.86%
Texas - 1.81%
Wisconsin - 1.76%
Nebraska - 1.70%
Illinois - 1.73%
Connecticut - 1.63%
Michigan - 1.62%
Vermont - 1.59%
North Dakota - 1.42%On the other side of the coin…
The Tax Foundation found that people in Louisiana paid the least in property taxes. The full list of the top ten best states for property taxes along with the percentage of home value paid in property taxes is:
Louisiana - 0.18%
Hawaii - 0.26%
Alabama - 0.33%
Delaware - 0.43%
West Virginia - 0.49%
South Carolina - 0.50%
Arkansas - 0.52%
Mississippi - 0.52%
New Mexico - 0.55%
Wyoming - 0.58%The guys in our small town do a good job too, especially with the equipment they have to work with. They have 27 square miles of land to cover. The key here is patience. But in Northeast oHIo this is a way of life. The ‘supposed’ winter storm and blizzard warning didn’t slow anyone down. The roads were packed as were the stores, movies, bowling alley restuarants and bars.
I was working during the ‘storm’ and we had three serious car crashes. 1 car was from Texas, 1 from Florida & 1 from S. Carolina. The guy from Texas had never seen snow before…
I find it funny though, some guys hate the cold but I’ll take shoveling snow and cold temps over the heat any day.
Terry
@Joe The problem with lists like that is that they don’t include the “NEW TAXES” Technically they are 'Fees" not taxes… So the politicians can claim that they didn’t raise your taxes, they just added fees. Luckily for me I live in one of the bottom states.
Dave can probably relate to this one. I am in Albq but I was in Alamamogordo, NM a couple days last winter on business when I watched a city pickup driving down the main street in town one cold morning. Standing up in the back of the pickup were two men on either side of a 55 gallon drum of what was apparently salt. As the driver was moving slowing down the street, the two men were, by hand, spreading salt on the roadway! I had to wait a couple hours until the sun melted the snow on the highway between Alamagordo and the interstate across the desert to the west because they just don’t plow. That’s why NM is at the bottom of that lisit.
Hay Jim… Now I’ll Have you know, those boy’s in the orange jumpsuits have nothing better to do then salt the roads… Cheep labor, But the city of farmington recently bought a well used plow that fits on the front of a Pickup. Were up-town now… Still see the Orange jumpsuits tho.