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ackblom12:
Rochester is pretty well known for being wonderfully tyrannical about parking in the winter. The city is well known for having the best snow plow system in the country and they will punish your entire block by not plowing and your neighbors will know who caused the pain in the ass.
Oh yeah, and like you said, you might also just risk getting hit by a plow. By accident of course. Totally an accident.
Carl-E:
The snow was heavy when I was coming down the mountain, and I saw a highway-size plow and salt truck in the ditch with a car tangled in it's side. I'm guessing the car was passing, and the plow was changing lanes to get to the turnaround.
Fail on both sides.
Bluesummers:
FAAAACK.
Forty-two inches of snow later, I literally cannot open my front door. We managed to get out through the back windows, start up the snowblower, and carve our way to the front of the house. We then proceeded to make a walkway where there was once a "sidewalk", near this thing called a "road". Public works says they can't get anyone plowed out until TUESDAY. That's just fucking great. I think I'll put on some layers tomorrow, trudge down to main street, break through a supermarket window with a shovel, and just start looting.
Papersatan:
It is not so much that they won't plow the street, as they can't plow the parking area. If a stretch of road can 5 cars and one is parked in the middle when the plow comes only the first and last spot get plowed, the other two empty ones actually get new snow pushed into them. I live in an area where few people have off street parking, and fewer have enough off street parking to accommodate more than one car. If you know you will be home when the plow comes it is expected (by your neighbors) that you move it to a stretch that has been plowed, or to the end of a stretch to maximize spots that get plowed. Snow removal is also why secondary streets in Rochester have alternate parking, that is mon, wed, fri, is is on one side and tue, thur, sat, sun it is on the other. Do NOT be the douche that leaves their car on the wrong side just after a storm.
As far as getting your car hit by a plow; it happened to me, and I was SOL. The City said I couldn't prove it was them, and I had cheap insurance which wouldn't cover it unless I had someone to blame. The car drove fine, but there was a half inch wide, half inch deep two foot long dent in the door. If it wasn't a plow I don't know what it was...
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 09 Feb 2013, 08:47 ---The snow was heavy when I was coming down the mountain, and I saw a highway-size plow and salt truck in the ditch with a car tangled in it's side. I'm guessing the car was passing, and the plow was changing lanes to get to the turnaround.
Fail on both sides.
--- End quote ---
But they were "mostly ok"?
A friend/acquaintant (not a bosom buddy, a fellow orienteerer who I would occasionally have lunch with) died when committing the stupidity of passing a plow truck. He ran his car into an oncoming bus that he couldn't see because of the swirling snow. Officially an autopsy determined that he died of a heart attack. We shall never know whether the heart attack caused his car to drift to the wrong lane, or whether the sight of bus headlights zeroing in a second before impact caused a heart attack.
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