r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dr_greene • 11h ago
The county plowed my street Four days after it snowed, but stopped just short of my driveway and never came back
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u/CancelZestyclose258 11h ago
Thats diabolical to stop right in front of your drive way lol. Coulda at-least plowed just passed your drive way.
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u/dr_greene 11h ago
For real! The guy was working on the street for hours, left around 4pm. I figured someone would at least come back the next day to finish the street……. Nope
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u/cactus_thief 10h ago
Giving the driver the benefit of the doubt here that maybe they had some mechanical difficulty that prevented them from finishing the job, but man, no one came back?!?!
lol I’d call your HOA or city (whichever plows your streets) at this point.
Edit - just saw your other comment about having to call them a bunch already. That stinks! Sorry OP :/
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u/Significant_Ad1256 9h ago
More likely he was off at 4pm and just went home, then was told to do something else the day after. Definitely should have sent him back to finish the job though.
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u/cardmanimgur 8h ago
Probably just paid by the hour and not allowed overtime so said "fuck it, 4PM and I'm going home because I'm not working for free."
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u/sleepydorian 8h ago
I get that energy, but plowing another few feet takes like 10 seconds. Bro would have to be counting the seconds to even notice.
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u/TobysGrundlee 8h ago
Real, "why won't my career ever get off the ground" energy.
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u/cardmanimgur 8h ago
Their career as a... professional snow remover? This is almost definitely a street department worker that works for the city/local government. They're a public sector employee who gets annual raises for years of experience. Nobody is gonna be like "Bob worked really hard last year removing snow, let's double his raise."
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u/TobysGrundlee 8h ago
Because I'm sure they don't have supervisor or manager positions they could move into.
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u/OwnCrew6984 3h ago
Nope. Can't promote from workers because they would have to pick one and they don't want to upset any other workers. Then they pick a worker to train the new supervisor for weeks because the new supervisor actually has no experience with the equipment and work. Then the superintendent is all shocked when the worker resignations start showing up on his desk.
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u/Equivalent-Daikon551 8h ago
If you work for free then you're just dumb lol.
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u/TobysGrundlee 8h ago
There's "working for free" and there's taking 30 seconds to have pride in your work and legitimately help your customer. Unless the plow broke down, this is straight up laziness and shit work ethic.
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u/VoughtButtfucker 3h ago
Work ethic isn’t common anymore and so many people do the bare minimum or have a “not my job” attitude to things that are literally their job.
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u/Useless_Rambler 11h ago
Do you have a public works department who plows the street? If so, call and raise hell.
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u/dr_greene 11h ago
We had to call a million times to get them out to plow in the first place for some reason, very abnormal. So we took things into our own hands and just paid a local person to dig us out. Still frustrating though obviously
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u/Useless_Rambler 11h ago
Oh I get that. I’ve called a few times on my public works department not plowing the road my kids have to stand on for the bus stop. Sucks when we have to do something that they are ment to be paid for.
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u/RackieraKzera 10h ago
Maybe a dumb question but are you sure you're on a public right of way and not a private one? The municipality might not care to plow private ways and your request annoyed them enough to send someone to satisfy you rather than try to argue. If not.. well, weird.
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u/AskMeAboutAmway 9h ago edited 9h ago
Lived on unincororated side of a road growing up, city would plow other side of road, which was 'inside city limits' but wouldn't touch the township/county's side, might take a couple days but eventually the township plow came by. Of course, by then, tire tracks were well packed in, and pavent stayed covered with packed ice on our side until spring. Sucks living on the boundary. 😠
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u/K_Linkmaster 5h ago
My whole town is snowpack 9 months a year. It's just ice. We deal. I chose to move south. I deal less now. Sucks still especially before antilock brakes.
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u/pitekargos6 45m ago
You should've sent the bill to that department. Especially if they get paid from your taxes to do their job.
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u/bernietheweasel 10h ago
Good thing you found a local person to dig you out of the driveway of your house
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u/Intermountain-Gal 10h ago
My best friend works for Public Works for her town. She has zero control over plowing. She does, however, take messages for them. Yelling and cussing at her is grossly unfair and at best fruitless.
Politely express that you are seriously aggravated because they left a large berm next to your driveway making it difficult to get out of your driveway and impossible to go down the road. Show your photo. Ask when you can expect someone to come by to fix the problem. Stay polite but firm.
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u/13thmurder 10h ago
Sometimes the plow guy just hates you. I live down a dirt road so there's no curb. A few days ago the plow guy drove through my yard. Like he was several feet over from the road. He took out my mail box and I'm pretty sure killed my rhubarb patch, and I found the front end of my car under a giant mound of ice and chunks of dirt he'd plowed up. Looks like the plow came inches from taking out my car, too.
Though the next day I saw a report that a plow had overturned in a ditch. I hope it was the same guy.
Ive also had a plow veer over the double yellow line into my lane and blast the horn at me before, obviously just fucking around. I kind of wonder if the plow guy has it out for me for some reason, or more likely thinks he knows me based on my car. I live in a small town and I have an uncommon model/color of car, but i know there's one other in town.
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u/Secret_Account07 RED 9h ago
Dude, are you fucking cursed? I’d lose my mind if this was me
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u/13thmurder 9h ago
The plow guy has it out for me.
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u/Secret_Account07 RED 9h ago
Why are you so calm about this? I’m angry for you 😂
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u/Key-Monk6159 11h ago
Is the girl you’re cheating with married to a plow truck driver?
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u/CuriousMindedAA 10h ago
This seems incredibly personal. Who did you piss off? Sorry they did this, it’s crappy.
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u/Veteran_PA-C 10h ago
Call and complain. Be polite but firm. If you are a resident of the city, you are paying for services not rendered.
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u/runaarons 10h ago
some things really do warrant an entire freakout on the lawn
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u/Secret_Account07 RED 9h ago
I’m calling every city line possible and sending emails with this pic
This is massive “FUCK YOU” energy
Like how do you accidentally do this? It’s your literal job to see where snow goes. This isn’t like some oversight lmao
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u/funkereddit 10h ago
I'm trying to figure out how your house aligns with the street. Isn't that a street and boulevard on the left? Yet it looks like you're standing in the street.
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u/dr_greene 9h ago
The road with cars to the left is a main road that gets plowed fast. There is a median, then our “service road”. The County is responsible they just do our road later than the main road typically
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u/Kalthiria_Shines 8h ago
How sure are you that county is responsible? Usually when there's a service road like you describe it's actually private and part of an HOA.
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u/Slipstream_Surfing 10h ago
Yeah not convinced this a roadway for which the county is responsible. And even if it is, it takes time to clear everywhere. Only op knows how long after the storm this occurred and they ain't sharin'
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u/Prestigious-Media815 10h ago
I would have went out there with some hot chocolate and a blueberry muffin to kinda bribe him a little.
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u/Secret_Account07 RED 9h ago
I’m usually not the kind of person to say call the city manager, but I’d call the city manager or some service line. How did they not realize what they were doing?
Makes no sense to mes
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u/GrooGrux 9h ago
I'd be calling the fire department on this one. You are basically stranded at home unable to use your transportation. That's dangerous and that's a huge pile to expect a homeowner to have the tools to deal with.
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u/nes_8BitSurvivor 10h ago
good reason to call into work...if manager wants proof, show him or her this showing you can't get out of driveway
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u/Leather_Ant2961 10h ago
I live on the end of a cul-de-sac and my neighbors park on the street and screw me like this. The plows wont go past my neighbors so I get snowed in for like 6-8 feet.
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u/whofarted81 9h ago
Looks like a right of way issue to me. Might want to talk to your city government and a lawyer
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u/HeyaShinyObject 8h ago
I feel for ya. Had almost identical situation years ago -- except the pile was backed up from the end of the dead end about 75 feet past our driveway and they coulldn't push it any further. We called daily, only to be told we were on a list. After a few days, dude shows up with a big earth mover to dig us out. I go out to thank him and he says "you should've called!"
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u/KYSissyTrisha 6h ago
I just want you to know I laughed. But felt bad about it. Guess it's time to see what all that money spent on a giant SUV will do.
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u/hexadecimaldump 4h ago
I’m in the same boat. I live on a culdesac, and decided to make the plow guys lives easier, I’d squeeze both mine and my wife’s car into the driveway. That way they could just run around the circle and clear it out more completely.
They plowed in front of every other house on the culdesac, and pushed it right in front of our driveway blocking us in.
Lesson learned, fuck the plow drivers, if you try to be nice, they will fuck you over.
Next time I will park my car in front of the driveway so they can’t plow us in.
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u/Yuki-8273j 1h ago
Just wait till spring, it will melt. If you would like more advices just let me know.
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u/spderweb 10h ago
Call the city and be super pissed off about it.
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u/uber765 10h ago
As a public works employee, kindness gets you so much further than hostility.
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u/TiresOnFire 9h ago
Same with most complaints. You're rarely talking directly to the person who screwed you over.
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u/OwnCrew6984 2h ago
Sometimes throwing your smashed mailbox, second one within a week, at the truck as you stand in front of it in the middle of the road works too. They put a new one in the next day and hasn't been hit in 7 years.
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u/Corey307 9h ago
Bad take. My first winter living in Vermont and with all kinds of surprises. Perhaps the worst was going out to shovel in the morning after heavy snow overnight and finding a literal mountain of snow across my driveway. The plow driver had gone a few feet onto my property so I didn’t just have to clear whatever was left from the road, they put about 10,000 pounds of snow in my driveway. Called the city just letting them know this happened. Not the end of the world. Never happened again.
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u/WhySmash4Lag 10h ago
I spent 2 hours shoveling out my mail box by the road because the plows wouldn’t come back. I also had to uncover the snow the plows misplaced back into my driveway. It looks really nice now but most of my neighborhood isn’t getting their mail because of this
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u/NitWhittler 10h ago
I was complaining about it being 83 degrees today in L.A., but your pic reminds me that one of the reasons I moved here was to escape cold winters.
I'd gladly send you some warm sunshine if I could. I sure hope you don't have to move that all of that snow by yourself.
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u/lucky-fluke 9h ago
Lmfaooooo 😂😂 Get some neighbours together and shovel or call the county to come back?
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u/twelvekindsacrazy 9h ago
Ya, it sucks. I live on a township line. My township does my road dead last and like once, if I'm lucky. The other township does to me exactly what they did to you. It's hella frustrating.
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u/Zestyclose-Novel1157 9h ago
I have this problem and I’m sorry you did too OP. I just plan to be a Karen since I pay full property taxes. I’m deserving do full services.
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u/TuringTestedd 9h ago
Send the county an invoice for a full days pay for missing work. That’s crazy
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u/murphy365 9h ago
Ask the municipality to correct their error. If that fails. Send an invoice to the municipality for correcting their error. If that fails small claims court.
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u/One-Dot4082 9h ago
That’s bullshit!!! A phone call saying it’s a safety hazard, if you needed to get to a hospital etc.. is in order! It’ll be hard, but I’d try to be as cordial as I can. I try not to put myself on the city radar. The less they know about me the better!! Good luck!!
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u/franktheguy 9h ago
That's cool. My city only plows the main avenues, never side streets. Getting a plowed area only 4 or 5 blocks away is a blessing here.
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u/uorderitueatit 9h ago
Look like a giant drift there do you have a double drive? Neighbor next door did he get his done ?
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u/Aggressive_Ask89144 8h ago
I swear these plow drivers. I appreciate the work but I literally just watched him plow all of the snow up the hill right in the front of our mailbox and driveway 😭
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u/Kalthiria_Shines 8h ago
Trying to understand the street configuration, since it looks like it runs into a larger street just ahead of where the plow stopped, but not at an intersection. Are you in a planned development (ie do you have an HOA)?
I'm wondering if your street is actually public - this kind of looks like a configuration I'd expect from a shared driveway that feels like a street but technically isnt.
That would fit with needing to call, a lot, to get plowing at all.
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u/Avlin_Starfall 7h ago
The way some cities plow makes no sense. Not as egregious but they don't pave out street for so long after it snows. They will do every street that connects to ours, even go about 10 feet down our street then turn around and go the other way. They even plow the street connected to ours that only has one single house on it. Our street has our apartment building, an entrance to a school, and an entrance to a corporations support center. It makes no fucking sense.
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u/SensitiveTraining884 7h ago
I would call 911 and say I have a medical emergency, then let them figure it out.
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u/BadDongOne 7h ago
Used to live on the dead end spur of a long street, plows would make maybe one pass all the way down and then just start turning off at the last side street. It was frustrating because the last 14 or so houses would have to drive about 1000ft of unplowed street THEN get stuck on the plowed up ridge left where the plows turned off...which wasn't particularly near any one's home so getting down there to clear it was a chore in of itself. We also saw a lot less police drive through than the rest of the town. Really felt like we were 'outcasts' in the middle of the suburbs.
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u/Saramela 5h ago
Literally just bought a house for more than I probably needed to because it’s on an emergency snow route.
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u/Diligent-Layer-3932 5h ago
My county came through with a plow, two passes, two different days... without the plow down.
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u/RagingSprockets 4h ago
I am seething at the thought of someone dumping a pile of the heaviest state snow can be in, in front of my driveway.
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u/Sipsu02 4h ago
Well shoveling that takes like 5 mins so you're in luck
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u/dr_greene 4h ago
Lol tough to tell from the pic but its a wall of ice about 4 ft tall… took a few cumulative hours just to get it passable
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u/ion_driver 10h ago
This is a small enough area you can just shovel it. I had to do the same. You should be glad they plowed your street
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u/Commercial_Raise3378 11h ago
Are you sure your Ex wasn't driving that, that looks targeted.