Wait...isn't that illegal?

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

Isn't there something in the snow emergency rules/laws where you're supposedly not allowed to pile the snow you clear from your sidewalk/driveway in the street? Or do the parking lanes not count as street? Cause I went to dig my car out just now (work all day and then out with friends and figured I'd do it now before the temp drops too much and the fluff gets crusty hard). The people whose driveway was in front of me created a massive mountain of snow right in front of (in fact, partially ON) my car, while the people with the driveway behind my car decided to copy them and create their own little mountain of snow. And by "little" I mean almost as tall as me. So instead of digging through just the snow that fell around my car, and that bit that the plow pushed over...I had to dig through two mountains as well.

So again I ask, aren't you required to NOT put the snow in the street?

And yes, I realize it would have been better to park in front of my own house instead of up the street, but my neighbor parked in front of my house. You know how I treated their car? I made a point, while shoveling, to clear around their doors on the drivers' side and was sure not to pile the snow around their car. Note the complete and total lack of burying somebody else's car. How hard was that?


Just...


Grrrrrrrr.

ETA I apologize if this is an over-abundance of griping for a community as opposed to a personal journal (perhaps I should have waited til this morning to write instead of doing it immediately after the shoveling adventure), but between the bitching/moaning I was trying to ask a legitimate question re: the legality of piling all the snow in the street.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

People get very selfish and lazy, but it's hard to legislate against every act of selfish laziness, or enforce it even when there is a law. If you see them, you could ask them to help get you out and not to do it again. Maybe they'll remember for next time.

[laklare.livejournal.com]

Sorry you're having difficulty shoveling. But perhaps your real life friends would be an audience more receptive to hearing about your personal, non-davis_square-related problems?

[wildflowersoul.livejournal.com]

I completely concur.

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

I apologize if this is an over-abundance of griping for a community as opposed to a personal journal (perhaps I should have waited til this morning to write instead of doing it immediately after the shoveling adventure), but between the bitching/moaning I was trying to ask a legitimate question re: the legality of piling all the snow in the street.

[ron_newman]

The robo-calls say that you should not shovel snow into the street. Sometimes it's hard to avoid, though.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

It's also possible that they hired a service for cleaning their driveway who did this. Something similar happened to the front of my car, although mine's tiny enough that the nose wasn't sticking out very far. While the owners/residents are responsible for those they hire, the people I saw out shoveling and plowing for money in our general area yesterday morning weren't nearly as careful as the ones who were going to have to live with it later.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Where would you like them to put the snow?

[dystocia.livejournal.com]

*seconded*

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I pile it into front yards. Yes, it makes things a bigger pain in the ass than just shoveling into the street as it often means hefting over a fence, but I'd feel like a complete ass intentionally burying someone's car in.

OP, that really sucks.

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

This is what I do too, hence my sense of WTF?! when I got to my car.

[agnosticoracle.livejournal.com]

As someone who regularly shovels his drive way, there are two things here I suspect. First most of the snow "shoveled into the street" was shoveled from the street. The snow in the street in front of the person's driveway got moved to the left or right of the driveway. Second if lots of snow got placed on your car either the shoveler has a personal issue with you or you parked your car too close to their driveway. Otherwise why would the go to the effort to carry the snow farther than they needed too.

[komos.livejournal.com]

This weather thing has got a lot of people really down. There's only one thing for it...

Quick! Call your alderman and advocate for a climate-controlled dome over the Square! It's the only way to solve this grievous problem.

Yes... it is illegal

[wobblymusic.livejournal.com]

Unless the ordinance has changed in the last few years, it is illegal to shovel your snow into the street (http://community.livejournal.com/davis_square/207336.html) (see RESIDENTS' RESPONSIBILITIES FOR SIDEWALKS near the bottom of the linked post). Most people pile the snow in their front gardens/yards. Like ruthling (http://ruthling.livejournal.com/) says, however, it's a difficult law to enforce.

Re: Yes... it is illegal

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

For years of observation, the rule of thumb at driveways seems to be that piling up snow behind parked cars is acceptable, but that piling up snow in front of others' parked cars is extremely bad form.

Also, if his car's still in front of your house, it would also be bad form to take a garden hose and run it until his car's sitting in six inches of ice tomorrow morning.

[bobobb.livejournal.com]

I would probably knock on their door and tell them.

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

Don't let them get to you. This is clearly a very strenuous time of year! I was thinking the same thing, there's so much snow, you just wonder where heck it's all supposed to go. I'm not looking forward to probably not being able to park anywhere when I get home tonight.

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

Actually, they just announced that they're opening all the snow emergency lots from 5pm tonight to 7am tomorrow for just this reason. So there's some hope of parking...