311 complaint of the day: Nice of the city to provide a cross-country ski track in JP
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/311-complaint-day-nice-city-provide-cross-country-ski-track-jp
311 complaint of the day: Nice of the city to provide a cross-country ski track in JP
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/311-complaint-day-nice-city-provide-cross-country-ski-track-jp
SteamPlowing at Hohenheimer Feldtag 2023

First Time in Ages
I just did something that I don’t think I have done since before Covid came along and mussed everything up.
As previously mentioned, it’s snowing today. Not a lot. We have about an inch on the ground. We might get another inch on top of that, but by no means is today’s storm anything to be worried or upset about, other than the fact that snow is always a pain in the ass. We are New Englanders. This is nuttin’.
However, I needed to go out and do the grocery shopping. My wife has been eating super healthy lately and she was out of all of the healthy things she needed for lunch. I had to go out and restock so that she could have a good lunch. That means I had to go out to the store before the snow stopped. Not only that, I had to go out before the snow removal crews started working. In other words, I had to drive in the fresh, untreated snow.
As previously stated, that was not a big deal. There was enough snow to make the roads a little slippery, but not enough to cause any real troubles for an experienced snow-driver. It made me think though… when was the last time I went out before the plowing started? I can’t remember. It’s been a long, long time. The last time had to have been pre-Covid lockdown. There hasn’t been a time since then that I had to be somewhere bad enough that I couldn’t wait for at least the plows getting one whack in. The only thing I could think of that would have made me go out right away was if one of my parents were in the hospital. If that happened I must have blocked it out of my memory. There was the drive home from Vermont a few weeks ago… does that count? I think the side roads might not have been hit yet, but the main roads had. I don’t know.
So I guess all I did today was spiritually renew my New England Winter Driver ID card. Yeah. I can still drive in the snow. Yippee for me, babie.
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Well, as I mentioned, the old stop was at a T-intersection. I had to cross a single road to get to the stop, and because it was a bus route, the city ploughed it regularly throughout #winter.
Hereabouts, non-major roads are NOT ploughed until the snowpack becomes too deep for emergency vehicles. (The rest of us can just eff off, I suppose?).
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About 80,000 people are expected to attend the International Plowing Match in Lindsay, Ontario next week!