Monday, February 11, 2013

Removing snow

this is the main street in our apartment complex, sunday afternoon. as mentioned, the snowplowing crew started their work when the snow just started coming down, they worked when the storm was at its height (the harsh wind blowing snow in your face wasnt the most fun part when we walked around friday night to "experience the storm"), they were still working when we went to sleep around 1 in the night.... i dont know whether they worked through the night, but i do know they were already working while we were just waking up.... they worked the entire saturday, sunday, and this evening i saw the bulldozer still being operated. our complex has 550 apartments, not small, but not huge either. imagine the amounts of snow and the huge amount of work being done so that we could just open the front door and walk around without sinking deep into the snow. one of the perks of apartment living, not having to shovel yourselves!! :) the least thing i could do was baking a cake for the crew, but then we broke the cake in 2 (it didnt want to come out of the bundt pan in one piece), so i baked another one..... not much work compared to what the shovellers did!
above they were removing the huge mountains of snow they had made the day before. it was loaded into the truck, and moved to the little snowfarm at the end of our complex; i guess that himalaya of snow will be there for quite a while, even though it was relatively warm today and yesterday (and even raining today). because of all the salt and other bad chemicals, the snow cannot just be dumped into the ocean, as was being done years ago. so... its piled up high, and being a pedestrian can be quite difficult... :) you have to check were you can cross the street, is there a gap on the other side too, or do i have to climb the snow? and as its melting, large, deep, muddy, salty puddles have formed. but no! im not complaining, the snow was great and now i get to wear my real snowboots that are meant to sink into the mess and still keep my feet dry!! 
ah, and, something really important; it was officially a blizzard. the national weather service said so. the past days this wasnt certain yet, so i am glad it is a fact now...... ;)

6 comments:

Pierre BOYER said...

Waoooh !
Best regards from Paris,

Pierre

biebkriebels said...

That is nice they clean the streets for you and how sweet you gave them some cake! Here the cleaning is much more better organized then a few years ago. Cycling paths are cleaned now too.!

Jack said...

Many people take the hard work of crews like this for granted. It was very sweet of you to bake TWO cakes for them.

Gerald (SK14) said...

I have to admire how you cope with the snow - just a slight covering here sends the country into panic.

Unknown said...

Glad you made it through unscathed - and how nice of you to bake for the workers!!

Stefan Jansson said...

I have seen many trucks like this one in the last few months. Hopefully I won't see many more as the weather might be changing.