How many hours are you giving by your county to have your walkway shoveled?

Question

Do you pay someone or do you shovel yourself?

Answer 1

We have 12 hours after a snow fall to clear our sidewalks and driveways. We are fortunate in that the sidewalk is on the other side of the street but we have a bigger driveway. The letter carriers have to get through somehow.
My grandaughter and I shovelled out this morning. My husband has asthma and can't do anything too strenuous.

Answer 2

When I lived in Ohio my husband & I shoveled the walks & my husband got the snowblower up & running, & in no time at all, we cleaned up the tons of snow. There was no time limit for snow removal, but if the steps leading to the mailbox weren't cleaned off, the postal carrier didn't have to deliver mail. Many people in my little town were afraid to shovel their walks, for fear of someone walking on the sidewalk & suing the homeowner. After we got back inside & warmed up a bit, the city snowplow would go by & plug the entrance to our drive up with snow without fail. Grrrrr......My first winter after our divorce, wasn't too bad. I lived in an apartment complex & the walks & parking lot was taken care of by management. That left just my car to dig out over & over. I went out after a big snow storm, & cleaned the snow off while I let my car run a bit. That freezing rain, sleet, etc. was so nasty. I'm glad those days are behind me now. No snow here in the south. It's very rare if they get it & if they do, it's just a dusting & 'tis said the whole area closes down. Wonder what they'd do if they were up in Ohio for a winter?

Answer 3

We are in our forties but most of our neighbours are seniors. If we clear the snow in the evening, we usually do a 5 - 6 house radius as we are the only ones with a snow blower. If it snows in the wee early hours and we don't have time before work, the wonderful people on our street will clear a narrow path to our front door.

Answer 4

I have to pay for mine to be shoveled - so unless we get more than 6" - I just let the sun do its job (saves gas and helps the planet)! I don't venture out in the snow anyway!

Answer 5

When it snows enough to be shoveled, my husband usually does the path to the driveway, and the steps, and shovels out his car so he can go to work, and I do the front walk and deck and deck steps, when I go out later. Then if I have to go anywhere I get to shovel out my own truck.

Answer 6

No shoveling to do. But, it's that time of the year when the male mulberry trees shed their leaves. So, I have some raking to do of what has blown onto my front lawn from other properties (I have an olive tree. It doesn't shed its leaves). And I hope the country sweeper truck comes through before mid-week, otherwise I'll have to do some sweeping up of the curb as well.

Answer 7

Well....we don't have a sidewalk/walkway so there is no time limit.
We do our own shoveling of the driveway and a path for the mail carrier.

Answer 8

Here in Georgia it's very rare to get snow so there's no set time that i know of. I've lived here 25 years now and have never shoveled snow yet.

Answer 9

My husband snowblows out our drive most days. And blows out the neighbor's across the street. Some days, they blow ours for us.

We don't have the mailman coming up to the door, have a post office box. And the paper people put our paper into a tube by the roadside across the street. So, I don't think that anyone would get mad if we didn't clear the snow. We just need to get in and out for ourselves.

Answer 10

I've shoveled myself out twice today. The second time two young Mormon men came by and offered to help me but I was about finished.