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Park? Doable.
Crossing a street? Are you prepared for the Olympics? It's quite the obstacle course. First, there is the huge mounds of snow. Most are only three feet high now. Then, there is that layer of slush hiding under it because the melting is seeping into the sewers along the gutters. Make sure absolutely no cars are coming, because their joy in life is splattering you. Then all you have to do is cross six lanes of traffic in 20 seconds without slipping on the ice, getting mowed down by the idiot who picked parking on the center line before the storm, but NOW, (and I mean right NOW, not to be slowed down by some mere pedestrian or smaller vehicle), he has to gun it to get out with his 4-wheel drive truck, get up over that next pile of snow with slush hidden below and safely back to the sidewalk that may, or may not be shoveled yet. All this three days after the storm.
Now, you can't go off in your vehicle because 4-wheel drive guy will take you out too. (Unless your vehicle is a tank, or a bulldozer. Guess what I want for next Christmas. lol)
Buses? You need a crash course in how to read the legend on the page to figure out IF the bus is running. (210 buses run throughout the city, but only 5 of them ran yesterday, and modified schedule along with various detours, simply because 4-wheel guy did wipe out a car here or there so there is no way around the car now.)
There are cabs, if you can find one. (You can only find one when you're not looking for one. Even the taxi queues are gone.) Don't bother calling, because the wait just to get through is half an hour and then another 25 minutes to talk to the dispatchers. They have an app for that though (and will tell you that once every 30 seconds, if you call, just to make sure you really really know that), but the reviews are in. Just because you texted it in, doesn't necessarily mean they got it, care, will notify a driver, or the driver can actually get to you. And if you get a cab, expect driver's choice on where you'll be dropped off. Just because you can see there is a way down any particular street, the driver can always decide he doesn't want to, or he will, but he'll go in the wrong direction.
So, a walk in the park? Wonderful idea, because traveling in this city will drive you mad, even if you live in Russia. lol
Crossing a street? Are you prepared for the Olympics? It's quite the obstacle course. First, there is the huge mounds of snow. Most are only three feet high now. Then, there is that layer of slush hiding under it because the melting is seeping into the sewers along the gutters. Make sure absolutely no cars are coming, because their joy in life is splattering you. Then all you have to do is cross six lanes of traffic in 20 seconds without slipping on the ice, getting mowed down by the idiot who picked parking on the center line before the storm, but NOW, (and I mean right NOW, not to be slowed down by some mere pedestrian or smaller vehicle), he has to gun it to get out with his 4-wheel drive truck, get up over that next pile of snow with slush hidden below and safely back to the sidewalk that may, or may not be shoveled yet. All this three days after the storm.
Now, you can't go off in your vehicle because 4-wheel drive guy will take you out too. (Unless your vehicle is a tank, or a bulldozer. Guess what I want for next Christmas. lol)
Buses? You need a crash course in how to read the legend on the page to figure out IF the bus is running. (210 buses run throughout the city, but only 5 of them ran yesterday, and modified schedule along with various detours, simply because 4-wheel guy did wipe out a car here or there so there is no way around the car now.)
There are cabs, if you can find one. (You can only find one when you're not looking for one. Even the taxi queues are gone.) Don't bother calling, because the wait just to get through is half an hour and then another 25 minutes to talk to the dispatchers. They have an app for that though (and will tell you that once every 30 seconds, if you call, just to make sure you really really know that), but the reviews are in. Just because you texted it in, doesn't necessarily mean they got it, care, will notify a driver, or the driver can actually get to you. And if you get a cab, expect driver's choice on where you'll be dropped off. Just because you can see there is a way down any particular street, the driver can always decide he doesn't want to, or he will, but he'll go in the wrong direction.
So, a walk in the park? Wonderful idea, because traveling in this city will drive you mad, even if you live in Russia. lol
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I was looking for someone to shovel my sidewalks on Saturday. No one came, so I did it myself. Three days later, someone just rang my doorbell. He wanted to know if I wanted my car shoveled out?
Ummm, sure, but then what? Once you get out, you have to get back in. We're bumper to bumper parking around here. (Rowhomes. Each house is 17 feet wide -- including the walls connecting one to the next. Most cars are longer than a house. And many people are two-car families. We don't have garages or an alley we can park our cars in.) When we shovel we aren't supposed to throw it in the middle of the street, but there is nothing in front of our homes but sidewalk. Three feet odf sidewalk between our bottom step and the parked cars. (We do have the sidewalk next to our steps, so that's where most of the shoveled snow goes, but I do get a kick out of the law saying we need to shovel a three feet wide path. There are blocks where their sidewalks are only two feet wide. Are they supposed to shovel up parked cars too? Past the sidewalk are the cars. (No strips of grass in between.) So the snow on the car goes onto a tall pile of snow on the sidewalk, behind or in front of the car or in the street. (Tomorrow is generally trash night. How do I lift a trash can onto five feet of snow? And how are the trash collectors supposed to get to it with that much snow between them and that trash can?) That means, there is only half the space to park in when we return. Now, we really do have a park a block away, but the main subway is on the other side of that park, so Jersey drivers park on our street and around that park to take the subway into Center City. So half the drivers parked aren't even from this state.
So, I told him, "Sure, you can shovel out my car, as long as you shovel a way for me to get to the VA Hospital and back again too." (6.4 miles of shoveling. How hard can that be? lol)
Honestly, the blizzard never even became a full-fledge blizzard in the city. We just got 21 inches of heavy, wet snow. It's three days later, and we only have 19 inches left -- and a fairly parallelized city. I've got enough food to wait for all the snow to melt. (I'm still trying to eat the food hubby and I bought 11 weeks ago, so I have room to replace it with the desserts I'm making for him when he can eat again.) If, I didn't have this burning desire to go visit him in the hospital, I'd simply wait for the snow to melt.
That's what we've done for the last 15 years.
Ummm, sure, but then what? Once you get out, you have to get back in. We're bumper to bumper parking around here. (Rowhomes. Each house is 17 feet wide -- including the walls connecting one to the next. Most cars are longer than a house. And many people are two-car families. We don't have garages or an alley we can park our cars in.) When we shovel we aren't supposed to throw it in the middle of the street, but there is nothing in front of our homes but sidewalk. Three feet odf sidewalk between our bottom step and the parked cars. (We do have the sidewalk next to our steps, so that's where most of the shoveled snow goes, but I do get a kick out of the law saying we need to shovel a three feet wide path. There are blocks where their sidewalks are only two feet wide. Are they supposed to shovel up parked cars too? Past the sidewalk are the cars. (No strips of grass in between.) So the snow on the car goes onto a tall pile of snow on the sidewalk, behind or in front of the car or in the street. (Tomorrow is generally trash night. How do I lift a trash can onto five feet of snow? And how are the trash collectors supposed to get to it with that much snow between them and that trash can?) That means, there is only half the space to park in when we return. Now, we really do have a park a block away, but the main subway is on the other side of that park, so Jersey drivers park on our street and around that park to take the subway into Center City. So half the drivers parked aren't even from this state.
So, I told him, "Sure, you can shovel out my car, as long as you shovel a way for me to get to the VA Hospital and back again too." (6.4 miles of shoveling. How hard can that be? lol)
Honestly, the blizzard never even became a full-fledge blizzard in the city. We just got 21 inches of heavy, wet snow. It's three days later, and we only have 19 inches left -- and a fairly parallelized city. I've got enough food to wait for all the snow to melt. (I'm still trying to eat the food hubby and I bought 11 weeks ago, so I have room to replace it with the desserts I'm making for him when he can eat again.) If, I didn't have this burning desire to go visit him in the hospital, I'd simply wait for the snow to melt.
That's what we've done for the last 15 years.
