last year i noticed that when it snows a lot, a lot of snow builds up on the roofs, and every now and then quite large chunks can suddenly fall down due to melting, refreezing etc.. so many buildings have signs around their entrances warning you for falling ice. this year these signs have not been necessary, or hardly. but last week we saw one somewhere in downtown boston. on a very sunny, almost springlike day. someone put a bag of ice next to it, still half full with ice cubes, which i found very funny..... but why? and what was there first? the sign or the bag? and when it was melted... did they remove the sign.. ?
thursday night we actually had a little more snow than wednesday night. but still very little. perhaps an inch (a few centimeters)? yet the management of our apartment complex apparently thought we do need snowfree walkways. and thus the maintenance team woke me up with their shovels scraping the paths around our apartment, removing the tiny bit of snow.... at 4.30 in the morning! i was quite annoyed, especially because it was sooo not necessary.... (or did someone place bags of ice everywhere..?)
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Dont they have those thingies on their roofs like in Europe which stop the snow from tumbling in one fell swoop.
See ... you should have done your postgrad stuff in Australia ... not a lot of snow down here ... yes, well it is summer ... but, hey ... even in winter.
Ha,ha, funny picture, they have humor in Boston to put an ice-bag there. To remove the snow in the middle of the night is quite weird.
Someone has a good sense of humour.
Perhaps a lawyer somewhere advised that a sign must be posted. . .needed or not?
Hmmmm, maybe it was in the "TOPLEZ" car driver throwing bags of ice out of her hotel window? Some people are soooo angry!
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