Ah, the first snowfall and the ubiquitous pile of snow on not fully cleared cars. That layer of snow is going to detach itself and go flying into the car behind, which is annoying at best and unsafe at worst. Before you hop in the car or SUV to run into your village of choice to patronize your coffee shop of choice, clear your damn roof.
This is not complicated.
And while we are discussing snow…it is NOT OKAY to plow, blow or shovel the snow from your property into the street.
and shovel your sidewalk … and most especially if you’re near a school bus stop.
How much snow did people get? I’m on the road today and I’m not looking forward to what I’ll find when I get back…
fignewtonville –
I haven’t been to Newtonville today so I don’t know if that side of the city got hit much harder than this side, but way over here in Newton Highlands, I’d guess we got about 5 or 6 inches.
Fignewtonville – it does not look like
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/65014_577481462268334_111341654_n.jpg
@Jerry. I’m 75 and was out doing my walk and sidewalk this morning. We have a plow come for the driveway. Four school buses pickup and bring students home each day at a stop right across the street from our house. I hate to get the issue of sidewalk shoveling going again. I will do it faithfully until the sidewalks become overloaded with ice and freezing rain. That’s when it impossible to make the sidewalks safe for walking.
Snow on the roof of a car is only dangerous when it turns to ice.
Not true. I’ve had snow from the roof of the car in front of me hit my windshield and effectively blind me while driving on highways at high speed – dangerous indeed.
mgwa,
Then you are too close. Throw the wipers on and back off. No more dangerous than when the snow is falling from the sky.
And shovel your sidewalk if you’re on a busy street! My #1 pet peeve is Christian churches who shovel their driveways and interior walkways but leave their sidewalks blocked (like a church on Homer St. that forced me into the road last evening). How does this fit Jesus’s ‘do unto others as you would have them do to you’?
And my even pettier peeve – non-profits, like churches, are tax-exempt so they don’t contribute to the city’s clearing of roads or sidewalks, but they benefit from it. IMHO The least they could do it make a minor contribution to the safety of the community by clearing their sidewalks.
Kim – it’s much more dangerous than when snow is falling from the sky – then you’re expecting it, plus it doesn’t usually fall in chunks. This has happened to me when the car in front made a sudden stop after going at high speed and I didn’t start out too close.
Lucia: If my parochial school education serves me correctly, Nazareth did not have a sidewalk shoveling ordinance.
Bill – Not sure, was the comment supposed to be irrelevant and witty or is there a meaning to it?
@Lucia – if it’s a pettier peeve, does that mean the pet peeve is petty?
In the case of a sudden stop, a snow mattress is likely to slide forward onto the windshield and hood of that same car, not fly backwards.
Oops – typed before caffeine. Bruce is right – though that situation is also dangerous, as it can lead to too much snow on the windshield for the wipers to happen, while in heavy traffic. My physics may have been off, but I have definitely been on roads where huge amounts of snow unexpectedly blew onto my windshield when I was not tailgating (I admit to having driving sins, but tailgating isn’t one of them). Probably powdery snow and heavy wind gusts.
@Lisap – depends on your feelings on non-profits and taxation.