It's December, It's New England, We get Snow.

 Noontime, 12/7

That's just the way it is, people.  No need to have a cow, run to the store and get Bread and Milk...  really, this is winter-normal.

So as of 7 a.m. we had 12.5 inches of snow.  That's according to NWS.  I agree, because I went out around 9:30 and it was definitely more than a foot.  The idiots who were out last night with the plows broke down a street sign (on the sidewalk, by Bowers field) and carefully plowed snow up on my sidewalk at the corner, right by the fire hydrant.  However, Wellesley Road has not seen a plow.  There are at least 3 inches on Henry.

In order to get onto the sidewalk, I had to go down the street to the neighbor's driveway and blow my way up onto it.  I worked for about an hour, and the snow is still coming down.  The sidewalks are clear and I also cleared the gutter up to the point where the plow shoved it up onto the sidewalk.  Can't get through there.  Nope.

Tails-U-Win cancelled classes today, so Tyson is depressed (no, not really, but he loves going to class!).

So, here's this morning's work!

I put the glove on top of the plowed snow bank to give perspective.  The hydrant is just off camera to the left. 

To the right is the gutter, with my glove on top of the snow bank I could not go through.

It's difficult to see, but this is the plowed up snow, at least 3 feet deep, right on the sidewalk by the corner.  The hydrant is a foot higher than the sidewalk, and I blew around it from the other side.  No way you could get through the plow bank...  

Sidewalk and gutter cleared.  I can only hope the plows don't completely ruin it. 

A second round of cleaning up in a couple of hours.  Will update this blog then! 

UPDATE:  my sneaky trick of blowing the gutter worked!!  the plows did NOT plow in the sidewalk any more than it already was. So the last couple of inches were easily removed.  I love my snow-blower.  It's the biggest, baddest one made for home use back when I bought it (about 16 years ago?) and it does a great job.  Except of course when the town plows decided that all the street snow belongs on the sidewalk!  Then nothing but another plow will move that stuff.

While Wellesley Rd did not get plowed until mid-afternoon on Thursday, I don't care.  They did NOT plow in the whole sidewalk and no one was going anywhere, anyway!