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Man with shovel hopes others will join in to dig out JP
By adamg on Wed, 02/25/2015 - 11:51am
At 9 a.m. on Saturday, Darryll Fernald will be at the Green Street T stop with a shovel. And then he'll go out in search of people who still need help digging out. He's taking requests - and hoping other folks will join him in a roving JP cleanup squad.
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There are a couple of
There are a couple of parallel efforts to coordinate this... NextDoor has been a pretty useful service for my neighborhood (Parkside JP), and I would imagine that most neighborhoods in the city would benefit from organizing similar projects. My street had a shovel-out festival two weeks ago, and we added three more spaces to the road.
Saturday is going to be warm
Well if you call 29 warm. I always go out and shovel a bit when the sun makes it easier to melt the snow. My neighborhood really suffers from not having a place to put the snow, so I throw only as much as will melt into the street. We lost about 6 spots on my street, I think it will be a few more weeks before there will be enough warm days.
Anyway a noon time start time might make the snow a bit softer and thereby easier to move.
I've been wondering...
I know we're not supposed to throw snow from the sidewalks into the street, but can I put some of the 6' tall snow mound at the end of my driveway in the street, since most of it already is in the street? It would just be redistribution, right?
(And no, I don't mean in a way that makes it harder to drive. Just a few shovelfuls at a time, sprinkled about to be melted by passing cars.)
Not into the driving path of
Not into the driving path of cars, no. If it's not at least 40, it's added (slightly) to the problem.
It's Ok
I live in JP; since JP is a communist state, I speak for all when I say this is completely acceptable. Please feel free to begin and/or carry on.
thanks Erik g
I'll check it out, happy to partner with anyone that has a shovel and a shared misson.
Good for him! It's nice to
Good for him! It's nice to know that some people still have a sense of community in a sea of me-firsters.
#shovelBoston
We had a good time, meet some new folks including a crew from the Christian Science church (I hope I got the correct of the church), tidied some intersections, chiseled up a few storm drains and cleared crossings. Thanks to this esteemed website, Jeffery, Clara, Rebecca, Jim, others I spaced on (sorry!!) @walkBoston and @SecretBoston as well!!