In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 18 Feb 2021 08:34:20 -0800 (PST),
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On Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 2:13:02 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:

I don't see any point to clearing a 4-foot wide path when I only need 8
inches.

Doesn't your city require the sidewalks be completely cleared? Ann Arbor

I think so, but I can't believe that includes cleaning the whole width.

does, and if you don't clear your sidewalk they'll do it for you and bill you
for it.

That's never happened to me or any of my neighbors afaik. Maybe because
we own our own streets**.

So it's more likely the HOA would do that, but even the law gives us 24
or 48 hours and I'm sure the HOA settles for 8 inches. Well, actually I
guess I used to do two widths of an 8" shovel, 16 inches. I'm not sure
the HOA has ever given a snow shoveling fine.

With Covid, only the mailman comes to visit, and he doens't come 6 days
a week like he used to.I'm pretty sure because my house is out of the
way, I think he saves up mail until I have several pieces and only then
delivers it. (Plus I get a weekly newspaper that sometimes comes a
month late, or two issues at one time.) Apparently this is a problem in
many n'hoods, and Maryland Congressmen have complained to DeJoy, who is
still postmaster general. Biden doesn't have the authority to fire him,
although he could add people to the Board and the Board could fire him.
That's the kind of thing that traditional politicians are loathe to do.


** (We'd like to give them to the county, so that we didnt' have to pay
for maintenance, but they are not thick enough. We repave them every so
often but I never got straight if more layers of blacktop get them
closer to the county requiremnt. Even 20 years ago repaving cost
100,000 dollars for the 109 of us, and the neighbors are eager to spend
910 dollars a piece. I suppose i could have moved to a n'hood with
richer people, but I love my lot and my stream. I haven't seen a better
lot in my price range in all the years I've lived here. Still I'm stuck
among a bunch of newer people here who have less money than I do. The
ones who were here when I got here with as much or more money stayed
here a few years and moved, when they had children, or even when they
didn't have children.)

4 car deiveway of 8 inches of snow with that thing!!!. The YT624 does
Or a 4-car driveway. When I had a driveway, I only cleared a path for
the tires.

That works if the snow isn't very deep. I've several times been "beached"
when the snow was substantially deeper than the ground clearance of my
car. One memorable occasion was in the parking lot at work: it was fine
when I went to work in the morning but so much came down during the
day I actually needed the shovel that I keep in the car.

I hope you don't mind my laughing.

I've only been beached once, in the summer. There was a pile of dirt
maybe 6 feet tall and I had a crazy idea to drive over it. I got a
running start but only got part way. When I got out of the car I saw
that all four wheels were off the ground! I was working with a crew
that was putting down steel reinforcement for a new interstate hway, so
I found the guy who drove the little crane, and after lunch he picked
one end of my car up and pulled it off the dirt. I was lucky.

This was a '50 Oldsmobile and it had both a rectangular frame and an
X-frame so all that protected the car's underside and muffler. Lucky
again.

Cindy Hamilton