Snow Removal

   It's all over the news here how this January is the snowiest month we've ever had since they started keeping records. We've had about a storm a week. Snow has covered the ground for over a month. Many people haven't been able to take their Christmas decorations down because of it. So glad I ran out there when I did on the day before one of the bigger snow storms we had and got them all down. Sure I had to dig a little through the snow to get the wires out but that was only 2-3 inches. Now we've got double covering the ground. I really don't mind all the snow as long as I don't have to drive in it.

   I've never had a problem shoveling it all. It gets me out of the house on the cold days and into the sun if it's shining. It forces me to get some exercise in. I just feel better when my car, driveway, and walkway are all cleared off, just incase I have to go somewhere. I am lucky that my boys are old enough to be forced to help do some of the cleaning. It makes it quicker and I don't have to do it all. It wouldn't be all that bad if I had too. I learned from my dad that it's ok to not do it all at once, take breaks, come in and go back out to it as often as you need too, as long as it gets done. So when I take my first break I send someone else out. Even my husband. Especially now since he complained about the job the boys had done after one storm but I realized later he didn't once pick up a shovel and do any clean up on that one himself. No more. I grew up with my dad shoveling out everything for everyone else in the house before he left in the early am. Rob leaves about the same time but doesn't do the clean up. It used to bug the crap out of me but by now I've gotten used to it.
   We have a Saturn Relay, a big van/suv type thing, so it's high. I do not use that as an excuse to leave all the snow on top to fly off into someone else when I drive it. I climb up on that sucker and knock off all of it. Or make the kids. It makes me crazy seeing the amount of lazy people that can't be bothered doing this. Maybe they don't care. Maybe they've never been behind someone as inconsiderate as themselves and have to deal with it. They're attempting to make it a law that you have to clear off the snow. I doubt it'll happen and even if it does it'll be like cell phones that we all still use in the car. Of course the law on that states you cannot be pulled over just for being on the phone. They have to get you on something else first and then can nab you with the phone.

   Dropping off Jake at school earlier I was behind one of these lovely people. She actually turned into the school also. I assumed a teacher coming back from lunch as she had no child to drop off. Shouldn't she know better? There were quite a lot of cars, check that, vans and suvs mostly, in the school parking lot with snow covering their roofs. As I left the lot I thought how much fun it would have been to leave little notes on each of their windsheilds saying to clean it off and how rude and selfish they were to other drivers! I did not go back and do this but I may next time. Just seems like too much fun. As long as no one sees me doing it.

    On my way home I watched in disbelief as a car dealership, Generation Kia on Rte 112, was plowing out their parking lot and putting the snow into the middle of Rte 112! I had passed the pile on the way and wondered how in the world it had gotten there. Now I knew. And it really pissed me off. I thought how we pay all these taxes for the town to clean the road of snow and they had done a good job and here these losers were putting it back. Freaking Ridiculous! I had to call someone. I called the town catch all number and was told that Rte 112 is a state road and given the states' phone number. The guy also told me though that in the town of Brookhaven there is no law, ordinance, or anything that says you can't plow your snow into the middle of the road after it's been plowed! So you want to throw your snow onto the nice plowed road we all paid to have cleaned; go for it. There's nothing to stop you. Of course you won't win over your neighbors I'm sure, but hey there are a lot of selfish people out there that don't care for anyone but themselves. You know who they are by the snow covering their car roofs.

    I did not call the State DOT. I figured if the town didn't have anything there wasn't a real good chance the state would. How gross. What a waste of money and what and incredible act of rudeness. I know I'll never go there for a car and I hope that anyone who reads this won't either. Do the right thing when it comes to the snow people. Yeah we're all pretty sick of it but that little extra effort won't kill you. That chunk of ice flying off your car could.