[mommy22]

To those of you who live in northern climes, please read! This is a friendly reminder that as the snow starts to fly, and acumulating, please remember to make the effort to shovel your sidewalk in a timely manner. Those of us who do walk have a really hard time getting through when the snow doesn't get shoveled. I walk my daughter every day to school all year, and it's really difficult to climb over the snow when it's new, and as it does melt, it turns to ice and gets dangerous.
So, please, shovel your sidewalk! And a really nice thing to do is to shovel a homebound elderly' sidewalk, which will help them and walkers in your neighborhood.
Thanks!

[kjmclark]

Excellent! We may be preaching to the choir here, but it never hurts to remind people. More and more people will be walking this winter, please do your part to make it reasonably easy for them.

(Not to mention that clearing your sidewalk is the law in most northern areas.)

[FoolYap]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mommy22', 'T')o those of you who live in northern climes, please read! This is a friendly reminder that as the snow starts to fly, and acumulating, please remember to make the effort to shovel your sidewalk in a timely manner.

[UncoveringTruths]

You folks up north have some funny notions! If it is your sidewalk why is it the law to shovel it for your neighbors to walk on? I would consider it trespassing for someone to be walking on my property. If it is a right of way shouldn't it be the local government’s responsibility to clean it off? Is it some sort of compulsory civic duty to shovel sidewalks in front of your house?

No offense but Ya'll must not have anything better to do on those cold dreary days than shovel the sidewalks and walk around the block taking notes of who isn't shoveling while on your way to the market.

I'm off to clear the road of Rattlers so my neighbors won't get bit!

[Aaron]

What is this "snow" you keep mentioning?

Some kind of gang thing?

I'm going sailing.

HawkMan-bless global warming.

[SpringCreekFarm]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'W')hat is this "snow" you keep mentioning?

Some kind of gang thing?

I'm going sailing.

HawkMan-bless global warming.

[one_more_day]

Where I live, the snow has to be cleared within 24 hours of when it stops falling. You can do it or the city can do it, but the city charges a hefty fee . I don't mind shoveling snow. It gives me an excuse to get some excercise. However, it seems like every year a few elderly die of heart attacks while shoveling. Do help out your older neighbors!

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'H')awkMan-bless global warming.

[auscanman]

I find it hard to believe that some of you find the issue of whether or not people should have to shovel their sidewalk to be contentious.

They had the right approach to this problem in Austria, where I lived for 10 years... If someone injured themself while walking on your uncleared/icy sidewalk you were automatically liable to reimburse the government run medical system for their medical expenses plus additional damages. Also, the police could issue tickets to people who failed to clear their sidewalk. Every morning after a snowfall you'd hear people out shovelling at 6am... lest some senior citizen fall and break a hip.

I wish there was some way snowplows could stack all the snow they've shovelled in front of the driveways of bastards who don't clear the sidewalk in front of their place in Canada. Then they'd see just what an inconvenience not having access to your preferred mode of getting around is!

[kjmclark]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('UncoveringTruths', 'Y')ou folks up north have some funny notions! If it is your sidewalk why is it the law to shovel it for your neighbors to walk on? I would consider it trespassing for someone to be walking on my property. If it is a right of way shouldn't it be the local government’s responsibility to clean it off? Is it some sort of compulsory civic duty to shovel sidewalks in front of your house?

No offense but Ya'll must not have anything better to do on those cold dreary days than shovel the sidewalks and walk around the block taking notes of who isn't shoveling while on your way to the market.