I'm at 800 ft so safe from the valley but Lane county has lots of flood plains....usually Fern Ridge Resevoir area 126 gets flooded and many logging roads as well....the rains melted most of the snow in my yard away last night
Today in Redmond, OR we got more snow than we did all of last week -- will probably turn to rain and be gone within 24 hours can't wait for more!
No more snow for a while hopefully. Shoveled three driveways today, one being a corner lot with a lot of sidewalk. The back needs a break. This was some wet heavy snow.
I have a long uphill driveway and the snow plows pile it up at the entrance day after day and bury the row of mailboxes as well....I met the maillady and shuffled mail from her van to the neighbors boxes because she couldn't drive close enough......I shoveled that whole patch of the road out so she could deliver the mail next day...it's pretty much rained out now....I can relate to 3 days of shoveling snow though....I have to do that here about once every year...where I grew up the snowplows cleared driveways and the roads so folks could get out and kids could get to the bus stops...here they don't do that.
Yeah here the snowplows pile the snow up in large ice chunks in the driveway. Fortunately they came by about 10 last night so I hadn't shoveled any driveways yet this round. Sometimes I wish the Widow across the street from me didn't live on a corner lot. After our last house I said I would never live on a corner again. That is a lot of sidewalk to shovel. Now I do hers every time it snow grumbling about the corner lot, but if it was my mom I would hope someone would shovel hers. Interesting that all the households that have teenage boys in the neighborhood never have shoveled driveways.
Yeah, I did some today but only to make "snow mountain slides" for my toddler...it should be gone and melted by tomorrow I think...mostly!
I never worried about shoveling my driveway... It'll melt in a couple days anyway. If it stuck around all winter I'd get it, but just a week or so... What's the point?
When we first moved to Central Oregon I didn't shovel mine either, then one time we had a big snow and a hard freeze. We then had a large hump at the end of the driveway that my wife's car struggled to get over. Was the last time I didn't shovel mine.
If I lived in the valley I wouldn't bother but I'm above the county snow line....I clear the drive in case of emergency but also it gets me outside doing something when there's not much else to do out there......and the more you walk on snow banks the harder it is to get rid of the ice.....best to get it done while it's powder and let that get rinsed off.
People are assholes and sue happy. I don't want my sidewalk slippery. People still walk around the neighborhoods and are jackasses that don't pay attention to what they are doing.
I’m with you. Never shovel the snow. We don’t have big trees in front of our house, so I don’t do the leaves either. They blow away after awhile. My neighbors on either side of me are shovel/rake freaks. One leaf or a centimeter of snow and they are out there. Cracks me up. Just last week, they were out there after the first snow. I left for work and my sidewalk was covered. Hollered out the window laughing that theirs will look like mine the next morning….and it did.
In NJ, we got 12 inches in Cape May (lower tip of the State and a Victorian town.) I live in Mercer County and we got nothing.
No rain today but supposed to return Friday. Considering Virginia, suppose I shouldn't gripe about my soggy yard. Which autocorrect keeps trying to change to doggy. No dogs in my yard!
our hoa owns our sidewalks. Our property ownership ends at the sidewalk rather than the street. this is fairly rare, but I’m okay with it.
