As you might be aware, there was a snow storm here. The company contracted to clear snow from our cluster left a 2ft-high margin of 5ft in front of all the parked cars, which means that anyone wanting to move their vehicle out had to shovel about 60cu ft of packed, frozen snow from in front of it. It’s not expected to get above the 20s this week, so that snowpack isn’t going to melt any time soon, either.
I emailed the cluster board, and got back a load of
nonsense from one of the members, and put in an urgent property management service
request to send the plough out and narrow the margin to about 3ft. The PM for our cluster replied, "I have already reached out to the snow management and am awaiting their anticipated schedule for the next few days."
What I would have liked would have been, "I've reached out to them and asked them to return and finish the job."
At the cluster board meeting on Monday night I brought it up again, and she gave me some bollocks about it being an unprecedented storm (on account of all of the sleet), and the contractors have to be careful about not wrecking their blade on the blocks of ice that form. Which makes no sense to me: if you can plough to a 5ft margin, why can you not safely go back and carve out 2ft on either side?
We should "give them the benefit" and let them return for further passes, either Monday night or yesterday.
But as of nightfall yesterday, they hadn't returned.
(Fortunately, I managed to dig out the Saab, and made it out for emergency Kalamata olives and cherry tomatoes.)
Walking is also curtailed—despite HOA requirements that
residents shovel the walkways in front of their property, not everyone gets
with the program. Also, no one is responsible for clearing sidewalks along the
city roads here, so pedestrians have to wait for a good melt, or else walk in
the street.
So here’s a picture of a candle for you. I was interested by its burning pattern.
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