Huh.

Dec 29, 2009 01:11

For the last couple of nights I've noticed convoys of trucks lining the street just to the north of my building.  Didn't really pay much attention -- figured they were either plowing or salting the streets, though I never saw them move much ( Read more... )

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naye December 29 2009, 08:52:03 UTC
In snow countries, they usually do exactly that (pile it up in vacant lots or whatever), or if there is an ice-free harbor, we dump it in the water!

I take it you guys don't get snow very much? :D

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snarkydame December 29 2009, 09:08:04 UTC
We haven't had this MUCH snow since I moved downtown -- in the suburb where I grew up, they just plowed the snow on the roads into the ditches. Maybe they've always done it this way in the city, and there was just never opportunity to notice? At any rate, I think it's kinda cool!

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sholio December 29 2009, 09:10:03 UTC
Though now I'm envisioning a huge, growing pile of snow in a vacant lot somewhere. Really, what do they do with the snow?

Hee, yeah, like naye said, that's what they do here too! (Though not the harbor thing, because we don't have ice-free water in the winter; we just use vacant lots. But what a fascinating idea!)

Anchorage (Alaska) - where I used to live, which is more coastal and therefore snowier than where I am now - gets so much snow that the giant pile of snow the snowplows used to make often wouldn't be totally gone until JULY. It was like a snowpile mountain.

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snarkydame December 29 2009, 09:27:22 UTC
See, in Kansas City, getting more than a couple inches of snow is an event. I love it! The more snow, the better, in my view, but it doesn't happen much. Maybe once or twice in a winter -- generally we just get flurries and ice.

I want to find the great pile of snow! ( I suppose they might have dumped it in the Missouri River, but that seems like a lot of trouble when there are so many parking lots and half-finished construction sites around here). I want to climb that pile of snow and plant a flag on it! :D

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sholio December 29 2009, 09:44:24 UTC
Hee! When I was going to college, the students would dig snow caves in the big pile of snow pushed up by the snowplows on campus, and go in there to do the various things that students do (i.e. drink, get stoned, etc, as well as just burrowing around in a big pile of snow because it's there). (Note: Digging easily collapsible snow tunnels in an area with actively working snowplows is about as dangerous as you would expect. Do not attempt. :D) Every spring there was a campus clean-up day, and the snowpile area was both exceedingly nasty to clean up, and prone to yielding cool stuff. One friend of mine found a $20 bill during cleanup; another one found a really nice pocket knife.

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snarkydame December 29 2009, 14:36:20 UTC
Snow forts! One of my favorite memories is from a winter when I was little ( six years old? Seven?) and digging out a fort that spanned half our driveway. . . I don't think we've gotten that much snow since. . .

(but I do feel sorry for the ones who had to clean up after those college kids -- though, a good pocket knife is not to be sneered at!)

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