Snow Plow Day

While we were Outside, I read people's complaints about the roads, the lack of plowing, etc.  We only got back Monday night, so we haven't lived with it.  But there was a huge pile of snow in front of our house - if I'd have tried to park in front of the house in my normal spot, I would have been blocking the road.  

But today the snow plows showed up around 9am and worked our neighborhood til about 5pm.  Back and forth, widening the street, then clearing the snow.  Then widening more.  Scraping the ice until the pavement was showing.  I don't recall there ever being such a day where our neighborhood got this much attention.  

Here's he's making lots of noise as he's scraping down through the ice to the pavement below.

To the left there is still ice on the street.  To the right he's gone down to the asphalt

 

At this point they have cleared the berms on the sides of the streets several times.  Now they've gotten the snow that had been piled up on the sides of the street, including the huge pile in front of our place.  It's in a big berm in the middle of the street - maybe 5 or 6 feet high.

Here's a bit of video as this piece of equipment pulls up the snow berm and spits it into the waiting dump truck.

As I said, we missed much of the terrible road conditions.  I don't recall the snow removal teams spending this much time - the whole day - in our neighborhood and getting rid of so much snow and ice in a single day.  My thanks to the team that cleared the streets so well.