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Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
the cafe that is a neighbour had tried to do their bit as well but didn't have a shovel so I did theirs in exchange for a double espresso
Very interesting in that someone has borrowed my shovel to do his bit and someone else told me where the nearest grit bin was so my efforts where not completely wasted. Lots of discussion on a local facebook group from folk wanting to help elderly neighbours ( thats me 😉 )
50 m of pavement cleared and gritted *basks in self righteous glow*
Community spirit is not dead in leith
Nearly everyone in Germany.
Nah, I did sweep the snow off my car windscreen onto the path instead though if that counts.
Pavement outside house? pfft I have a driveway onto a cul-de-sac, no need for such neighbourly gestures
If we had any show I'd have cleared it, and next door to my right the folks on the left can slip and slide for all I care.
Nope - cleared it last night but it keeps piling up again and no one else is bothering!
Did it yesterday ..within half an hour it had been a completely wasted effort ..
I was too tired to do the pavement after having done both driveways.
Damn the butler. He should have made the effort to walk to work, it's only a bit of snow.
I normally do, in fact I normally do our entire street because no other bugger does it. I haven't done this time as it's still snowing, more is on the way, it's a foot deep and only 25 people live on our street, which is a dead end, and they always bloody well leave it to me and I've had enough. I'll maybe have a crack at it on Saturday morning if I feel charitable.
My neighbours do mine for me. They are all in their sixties and seventies so it’s not like they’ve got anything else to do anyway.
Absolutely no point round here, no-one walks anywhere!
When I were a lad on a council estate, nearly everyone did & the streets were always clear.
Was shovelling, thinking it was futile, but then the neighbour demonstrated that we have a salt bin half way up the hill so we've distributed that now. Good thing too cos she's a doctor and needs to get out tomorrow. And half the street walked or drove past us and didn't lift a finger. Even more annoying since it was them who drove on it this morning and packed it into ice making it hard to get rid of
Not enough snow to make it worthwhile here, although enough for half the schools to shut
I did our whole street a few weeks ago, then yesterday I did mine and the old lady over the roads drive and paths. Useless effort as it's turned out, we've had another 8 inches of snowfall and now the road is impassable. I suspect my car won't move until this lot melts which could be some time
Molgrips - shovel the pavements clear but pile it up into their driveways?
Last time it snowed the retired OAP next door cleared my drive and pavement for me!!!
Why bother it’s windy, still snowing, a complete waste of time + can actually make it more slippy. Fresh snow is grippy, compact snow is not
No point, it's blowing a gale here right now. Plus there's just me and my neighbour we're not going anywhere, and it's a rough track...
No, spoils it for the kids sledging down the street.
Funky I also gritted it so any more snow will melt not lie hopefully. Its not compacted - its clear of allsnow and ice
Did it yesterday, but the snow has been coming in horizontally all day with no sign of a let up so theres little point at the moment
They gritted all the paths around here on Monday by Monday evening they were covered in snow and have been since.
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My neighbours do mine for me. They are all in their sixties and seventies so it’s not like they’ve got anything else to do anyway.
Can you send them round when they're finished?
Actually I've just remembered I don't have a pavement outside my house.
Me neither. Oh to be middle class.
I've done from the traffic lights to my shop and all the way along to the wool shop as that's a favourite of the old dears.
Pavement? Nope, don't have one so nothing to clear.......
Don't shoot the messenger (as I type this I know I'll be thrown under the STW-forum bus) but in this day and age, if you do clear/grit it and someone goes a over t over that bit, might there be a risk of being sued for compo? Right, off to do ours before I get slammed for being a jobsworth.
Don't know if this is accurate but I heard if you clear a section of public pavement and someone slips you can be liable. Ironically if you leave said pavement untouched then no problems.
Utter nonsense on the liability unless you did something really stupid like clearing it with hot water that then freezes into sheet ice
Its a complete myth like most of these things
Cleared in front of our house yesterday along with the fronts and paths of some elderly neighbours. Couldn’t grit them as some **** had used the content of the grit bin to do their driveways. No shops have grit left as the council has bought it all up. Snowed again and you can’t even see what I’d done yesterday:(
I cleared mine last night. Then popped out before bed and emptied a few pans of cold water onto it.
Don’t know if this is accurate but I heard if you clear a section of public pavement and someone slips you can be liable
That is one that HSE did a myth bust on - you're more liable if you don't... It's also been tested in court via shop in West Midlands, and again judge laughed it out....
someone on our street has decided to clear thier two car drive - and piled it all on the road! Ridiculously we have a foot of snow, it's not like anyone's going anywhere in a car...
Why would I do that? I've got kids who are off on a snow day. They did it and made a snowman with what they'd cleared. Everyone happy.
You can't be prosecuted for clearing the path unless you do something really stupid or negligent.
Did about a 3rd of the road on our cul de sac. Will hopefully stop the compacted ice rink that lingers for weeks. Figured my neighbours are paying my salary with their council tax so I might as well make use of myself while school is closed
Cleared the pavement, and the road Infront of house as it's a hill. It's not too steep but today cars are struggling....I smiled smugly as my winter tires grip very well. It's only an inch of snow but seems to be compacting to ice today. I'm the only person to clear anything in the street.
Me - yesterday - cleared both sides of my street's pavements as well as the neighbours paths to their doors. I then went and cleared a path to the crossing points over the road.
Went back out to do it again last night but the underlying snow had compacted and gone to ice, so my efforts didn't amount to much apart from making the surface shiny...this morning the snow has grown and I've been stuck working so not had a chance to get out.
Annoyingly, work is being done in the garden and there is a Bobcat 'dumper' sitting in the back garden - contractor has removed the keys though otherwise I'd use that to clear the street as 1 bucket would remove the snow from half the paths in a single pass.
Council hasn't replaced the grit in the only grit bin, so no means of gritting the path...old folk aren't venturing out though (which is probably sensible).
If I can get away from work this afternoon I'll take the bike out and have a play in the snow!
When I was a kid everyone/their kids did it. Was fun too. 'Virtue signalling' is for the Internet 'community' innit?
Nope. But I did have a chat with my elderly neighbours to see if they needed anything.
It would be like sweeping leaves on a windy day here, but I have in the past at my old place.
I took to the sloped road with a bucket of grit and a shovel, not that anyone else would have noticed, but I was only a few weeks out of physio for two badly broken arms so it was pretty painful - I expected at least one of my neighbours to join me - nope. They looked at me out of their windows every quarter of an hour, and then when I finished and the road was passable - took their cars out without so much as a wave of thanks, so **** 'em - hope the cold claims them all ha ha.
you’re more liable if you don’t
surely not as the pavement is not yours ?
I'll be doing mine when I get home after work.
My mother in laws neighbour cleared his driveway and the footpath in front but piled it either side blocking the footpath with two 2ft high mounds, a twunt of the highest order imo, probably chucks his dogshit into the trees as well.
I certainly wouldn't clear snow first thing in morning in the heart attack zone.
Haven't cleared any snow since yesterday morning as I've been helping essential medical staff get to and from various hospitals in the Borders as part of my voluntary work for Lothian 4x4 Response
Even managed to drop some emergency milk off at our LBS. So that should be discounted servicing for a while 😉
Am I helping if I shovel the snow from my driveway onto large piles on the surrounding paths so mums with buggies have to walk around them on the icy road?