Snow clearing

[gwywnnydd]

I'm uneducated about something.

For those (vast) areas of the world, where the snow *doesn't* melt away before the next snowfall, how do cities/ counties cope with it?
Does it get moved somewhere in snow form? Does it get melted and used in some application?

Comments

[codeamazon.livejournal.com]

They use plows to push it to the sides, where it piles up into huge berms over time. They usually also salt/use chemicals to help melt what's left.

[nyterose.livejournal.com]

Well, here in the land of Michigan, magic plows come in the middle of the night (or early morning) waaay before anyone reasonable is awake, and push the snow in huuuuge piles onto my driveway! Then, when I wake up and want to go to work, I can't find my car.

When I finally -do- find my car, I then have to take the rest of the day to dig it out, and then try to clear out the driveway. Every once in awhile (during the particularly magical months of January and February) another magic plow comes and throws more snow from the road onto my driveway. Where I just finished shoveling.

Eventually, I get frustrated, and decide "to hell with this, I'm just gonna get in my car, and drive through the snow berm!" I usually drive teeeny little cars with teeeny little tires. This does not work well. So, now my car is stuck, half in the driveway, half in the road, and I STILL have to dig it out!

But at least the *&%&*)( snowplows can't shove more snow onto my driveway.

[nyterose.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot to mention that the snow isn't so much snow, as it is a sort of torte. Made of snow, then ice, then snow, then ice, then icy snow, then snowy ice, then concrete, then snow.

[gabri.livejournal.com]

My experience was huge piles in the backs of parking lots or any available vacant lot. Which then would not melt completely until late April.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Let's you and me hope we don't have to find out anytime soon, shall we? I had enough s**w to last me a decade or so last year....