Plow my roads or Ima gonna beat you up!

I understand the sentiment.

After the Christmas-week snowstorm, we had PG county snowplows drive through neighbourhoods with the plow-blade up. That way, the GPS tracker shows them as working but they don't have to actually concentrate on the the job.
 
When I lived in the DC area (in the Marion Barry era) there were 2 snow plows. One supplied parts for the other. During the gigantic blizzard of 1996 the one working plow did the Mayor's street and promptly broke down. It was really quite comical. Sounds like they're doing quite a bit better.
 
Sheesh, these residents need to get a life. Or buy a shovel. The way it works out here, main roads/emergency routes get done first, then secondary roads, then last, residential areas. My little Vibe, with its studless snow tires, will plow through about 20" of heavy wet snow, more if its light, dry powder. I don't need no stinkin' plow. Whiners.
 
The answer is JEEP. Smartest thing I've ever done (whoops, second smartest; first smartest was marrying my wife) was buying that little mountain goat. I can't believe the stuff I can get through in the Jeep.
 
flyersfan31 said:
The answer is JEEP. Smartest thing I've ever done (whoops, second smartest; first smartest was marrying my wife) was buying that little mountain goat. I can't believe the stuff I can get through in the Jeep.
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Yep. People may make fun of my Ford Excursion, but the thing is pretty darn well unstoppable.

The Bill of Rights does not include the right to have your street plowed. You want to get where you're going so bad, make it happen. Quit complaining that the government isn't.
 
Threatening the guys driving the plows is a pretty good way to have poorly plowed streets for years.
 
I am sure the area was in a state of emergency (like PA, NJ and DE) so no non essential vehicles should be on the road anyway. So why would you need your street.
 
The last vehicle I would ever buy is a Jeep. I've never had a Jeep pull me out of the snow, but I have pulled a few Jeeps out with my Chevys. Plus the Jeep would be lucky to run properly, or have the 4WD work.
 
I plowed for many years with a DOT. I recall two incidents with folks.

One guy screamed at us everytime we passed through the street even though we were taking the time to square up the plow blade and not leave him blocked. Something about paying taxes and he wanted his driveway done. I finally made a stop and told the guy get his car out of the way and stop giving me crap, I'm tired and have no patience left for his games. He would not give it up. I came back at 3am with another truck who moved snow to me and I packed his butt in good and tight, sorry about his luck.

The second incident was a guy throwing rocks at our trucks, yes rocks, not snowballs. He was hiding/standing on a mound of snow and would get up and throw when a single plow would come by. We baited him into throwing at a single tri-axle and I happened to be the follow up in a one ton, My rooster tail of slush and snow took him off the top of that mound in one clean shot......he gave up his assault.
 
GMascelli said:
The second incident was a guy throwing rocks at our trucks, yes rocks, not snowballs. He was hiding/standing on a mound of snow and would get up and throw when a single plow would come by. We baited him into throwing at a single tri-axle and I happened to be the follow up in a one ton, My rooster tail of slush and snow took him off the top of that mound in one clean shot......he gave up his assault.
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:rofl::rofl: That's good!! This was the first time that I actually couldn't plow the driveway out. The combination of Saturday's 8" plus Wednesday's 20" was just too much for the tractor plow. Luckily, my neighbor has a tractor mounted snowblower, so he came down the street helping out - very nice of him. Somethimes just can't beat power equipment.

I shudder to think what the Cherokee looks like up a Quakertown.

Gary
 
GMascelli said:
The second incident was a guy throwing rocks at our trucks, yes rocks, not snowballs. He was hiding/standing on a mound of snow and would get up and throw when a single plow would come by. We baited him into throwing at a single tri-axle and I happened to be the follow up in a one ton, My rooster tail of slush and snow took him off the top of that mound in one clean shot......he gave up his assault.
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That is to funny I wish you had it on camera but then they could prove you did it. We had that happen to us going to fire calls people/kids would throw rocks at us as we drove by this on spot. This was in the days we had open cab trucks.
 
N801BH said:
I plow snow too. The vast majority of people are nice.... for the ones that are not this is a snow plow drivers fantasy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3M9lqpQtig&NR=1
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Ben,

Yes, most are nice and when your doing clean up or that last bit of push back it's always nice to help people out with taking a bite out of the driveway piles or cleaning that on street parking spot if they have their vehicle shoveled out enough to move.

The video is right on.....that is too funny. The "rock thrower" I got still makes me laugh.
 
flyersfan31 said:
The answer is JEEP. Smartest thing I've ever done (whoops, second smartest; first smartest was marrying my wife) was buying that little mountain goat. I can't believe the stuff I can get through in the Jeep.
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Yup. Last winter we had an exceptional snowfall for us, over 12 inches. Neighborhood newsletter a month later claimed that for 12 days nobody was able to get up the hill from the lower part of the neighborhood (I live at the bottom of the hill). That statement was not true. My Jeep made it up the hill anytime I wanted. Without fuss. The one vehicle I've had where I think I would drop a new engine in it when this one gives up (pushing 160,000 miles and still going strong).

EdFred said:
The last vehicle I would ever buy is a Jeep. I've never had a Jeep pull me out of the snow, but I have pulled a few Jeeps out with my Chevys. Plus the Jeep would be lucky to run properly, or have the 4WD work.
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Interesting view. My Jeeps run fine. And the one time we had one of our Jeeps tangle with a Chevy, the Chevy needed a tow truck and the Jeep drove away. This after the Chevy pickup (full size) rear ended the Jeep in traffic and wound up on its side. :D Jeep 1, Chevy 0.
 
rmciottijr said:
I am sure the area was in a state of emergency (like PA, NJ and DE) so no non essential vehicles should be on the road anyway. So why would you need your street.
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I don't live there, but I do live in an area that gets snow every year. I AM 'essential personnel' (911) so I need a vehicle that doesn't depend on a snow plow to make it from home to work. Too much snow isn't an excuse to be late or miss work.

But then again, this part of the country doesn't declare a state of emergency when three feet of snow falls in 24 hours. :D
 
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DeeG said:
I don't live there, but I do live in an area that gets snow every year. I AM 'essential personnel' (911) so I need a vehicle that doesn't depend on a snow plow to make it from home to work. Too much snow isn't an excuse to be late or miss work.

But then again, this part of the country doesn't declare a state of emergency when three feet of snow falls in 24 hours. :D
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I agree with you as essential personnel but I am sure they were not. I am also essential personnel and I needed to operate a 55000+ lb truck through our town and I sure as heck don't want someone driving when they really don't need to. Not saying that the roads should not be cleared but they need to give the guys some slack.

Yea we don't have the equipment to handled 45" in 5 days.:yikes:
 
I live at the top of a very steep hill, last house on the block before the road dead-ends into a 12-foot rock. My driveway goes along the side of that rock, kind of hidden from view.

For many years, the plow would plow the other side of the street, up to the neighbor's driveway and leave a pile of snow in the street blocking the way to our driveway. Every snowstorm, we would get out there with shovels and clear our own driveway and twenty to thirty feet of street, including the snowpile.

One year, we were just finishing clearing the drive and street when they came and dumped the load in front of us. We just started shovelling again as they backed down the hill. But then they came back and pushed the snow all the way to the rock, leaving just a little hill of snow for us to move. They do that every time, now.

I appreciate that.
 
In December, after our second big blast of snow for the winter, the snow plow came down our street and was stymied by finding two cars parked across from each other on the narrowed-by-previous-snows street. He couldn't get through, cuz his blade was too wide, and he was facing backing up almost a full block to escape.

So here it is, 6:30 AM, and he was stuck in front of my house. His solution: He just laid on his horn! That incredibly loud diesel horn woke up everyone in the neighborhood, of course. Eventually, someone went out and moved one of the cars, and he proceeded on his merry way.

I've never seen that approach before, but it worked. Of course, his problems could all have been avoided if the city had plowed the first big storm adequately, but I'm sure he didn't see it that way.
 
EdFred said:
The last vehicle I would ever buy is a Jeep. I've never had a Jeep pull me out of the snow, but I have pulled a few Jeeps out with my Chevys. Plus the Jeep would be lucky to run properly, or have the 4WD work.
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I've owned several 4x4s, including Subarus and Chevies. NOTHING compares to my '95 Toyota T100 4x4.

I've got a fuel transfer tank in the bed that holds 400 pounds of fuel, and when that tank is full, and I'm in four wheel drive, there is nothing in an Iowa winter (or much else) that can stop me. I've gone through 4' drifts with nary a hesitation. In fact, I must confess to TRYING to get this thing stuck, and being unable to. It's just a remarkably well-engineered four-wheel-drive vehicle.

If you do a search for T100s, you'll see they're pretty popular with the guys who go off-roading for fun. Mine is completely stock, so I can't imagine how great they must be with all the add-ons some of those guys put on 'em.
 
I can just hear Dick Durbin "This will never happen (to me) again!" (as in I'm too important to allow this!). Yeah, right.
 
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