We had 8 inches of snow on Tuesday night. A heavy, wet snow that came down at an alarming rate, reducing visibility, and keeping us home from our planned casino trip to Oklahoma. Of course it could not keep The Pony from going to work.
That pure driven snow does no favors for The Pony's garage in the background. It's scheduled for a makeover in the summer. After breaking his rear windshield wiper during the last winter storm, The Pony left his front wipers up this time, so they didn't freeze.
His first order of business was to find the windshield! Good thing I gave him my scraper.
The snow was deeper than The Pony's boots. He said it hurt his knees walking, due to the heaviness of the boots he was not used to wearing yet this winter, and having to step so high.
The good news was that The Pony and his work crew had instructions to skip any areas that didn't look like they could safely walk or navigate with their vehicle. The Pony was in a Metris van, which is rear wheel drive, and not good on snow. So he could not deliver to some apartment complexes that didn't plow the parking lot or area around their mailboxes. He also couldn't stop on streets where there was no room to park off the main roadway. So he was thinking he might get off a little early.
Good thing he has a big triangle tub to soak in after a hard day of semi-work.
So on heavy snow days/weeks/months, people just accept they won't be getting any mail deliveries? I'm actually wondering how any of the northern countries keep functioning when everything is buried in snow.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
ReplyDeleteI can't speak for town people, but we accept it because our roads don't get cleared until last.
I suppose the alternative would be to command the mail workers to deliver NO MATTER WHAT, and then pay for their broken ankles and fractured skulls while people miss one or more days of delivery every week while the remaining workforce fills in on the routes left vacant due to injuries...
In MN it is up to the home owner/renter to clea a path for the mail to be delivered. If you park on the wrong side of the street, your vehicle will be towed. Our daughter forgot to move her car one night at her apartment and woke to find herself without a vehicle to get to work. Don't feel too bad for her, she worked for her Dad and he not only picked her up; he was dispatched to retrieve her vehicle and he paid the fine! She is just that special!
ReplyDeleteKathy,
ReplyDeleteI think that unwritten rule goes here, too. If you don't clean off your steps, don't expect to get mail. No parking rules, though. You just get plowed in, no matter which side of the street.