I noticed this before but now that I actually live here it’s totally blogable. People in this town are obsessive about snow removal. Yes, this is generally a good thing when it comes to the city streets. In fact, I’m totally impressed when it comes to the city removing snow from the public roads. The obsession comes into play when it comes to folks removing snow from their driveways and sidewalks. I grew up along Lake Ontario in New York, and lived in Denver for the past ten years. I know snow. It snows, people dig out. If you can drive on it, it’s not worth the trouble. Here in Lincoln, by 7am the snowblowers, shovels, and brooms (yes, brooms) are out and my 9am, I’m the only house on the street without a clean driveway and sidewalk. Talk about trying to keep up with the Jones’. However, when I cam home from my first day at the office on Thursday, planning on shoveling out my driveway before making dinner, I found that one of my neighbors has taken their snowblower to my driveway. Now that’s being neighborly!
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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3 Replies to “Snow in Lincoln”
Can you get them to do it all the time? That would be a great trick!
I should probably meet them before I come to rely on them. (No one has come forward to take responsibility.)
They won’t come forward. It’s a Heartland thing. Someone in your neighborhood likes to use their blower, and helped you out. One note: in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, many municipalities have very fierce laws about how soon after a snowfall you must have your sidewalks cleared. Your neighbor might have saved you a ticket!
Can you get them to do it all the time? That would be a great trick!
I should probably meet them before I come to rely on them. (No one has come forward to take responsibility.)
They won’t come forward. It’s a Heartland thing. Someone in your neighborhood likes to use their blower, and helped you out. One note: in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, many municipalities have very fierce laws about how soon after a snowfall you must have your sidewalks cleared. Your neighbor might have saved you a ticket!