Who is my neighbor? Can you imagine moving into an unoccupied house in a townhouse community this week and being confronted by two foot drifts of snow on your stairs and walkways?
I’ll have new neighbors soon and decided to help them out, even before they have arrived. I don’t know their names and that doesn’t really matter to me—they are already my neighbors. The photo gives you an idea of the amount of snow that fell in our area.
I’ve noticed that this giant snowfall has brought out the worst in a few people, who have done nothing but incessantly complain. It has been gratifying, though, to see that the storm has brought out the best in a much larger group of people, with neighbors helping neighbors as we dig out together.
I hope to return to nature photos soon and hope that readers have not been too disappointed with all of the snow photos.
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Mike Powell 
Not disappointed as long as you keep that snow up there. 🙂
It’s starting to melt a bit and compress, but is staying put for now.
I’m glad to see that these situations generally bring out the best in most people. Your new neighbors are lucky to be getting at least 1 great neighbor … Love the snow pics, especially with blue sky
Thanks. There are quite a few good neighbors, but we so rarely interact. Snowstorms are one of the few occasions when we are all out together at the same time.
I grew up in Minnesota in such a simpler time. When it snowed like this you sent your kids down the block to check on all of the older residents; the kids made sure the heat was on, cars would start, and they shoveled sidewalks and sprinkled salt to make sure it was safe for that walk to the store. They came home with trays and boxes of the most amazing cookies and sticky buns…I miss those times.
Wow – that’s a bunch of snow Mike!
Nice job Michael. The same has been happening in our townhouse community. Some folks are helping one another and others are grousing about inter loppers like my son who came over to help us out. He was blocked by selfish neighbors who took up the whole road way not expecting anyone driving in. There is a vacant house next to us and one across the street. No one has shoveled any vacant spots and no one has shoveled the fire hydrant. Another neighbor uses the vacant house to park his second car. That was shoveled. One of our neighbors has a corner lot. The neighbors across the way, dumped all their snow on the corner lot. Don’t think that will get shoveled out.
In Montclair, NJ where we lived, one of 3 neighbors had a snow blower and did the side walks up and down the street and sometimes our drive way which was about 40′ Our old snow blower has a broken transmission but still throws snow.
My son has it in Lancaster, Pa. They had about the amount we did.
That was a lovely gesture, to dig out your neighbour’s house. I am happy to report that in our street we all worked collaboratively to get our driveways as clear as possible (one of our cars is still snowbound) and get the sidewalks cleared. We don’t own a snowblower (it just jumped to being a priority purchase once we own a shed to house it in) but our neighbours let us borrow theirs and in return we did some of their shovelling. I have also been providing childcare for my working neighbours with yesterday being a Snow Day. I have heard from friends about people behaving crappily but so far I have only seen positive, community building behaviour.
You efforts will be appreciated I’m sure Mike. I’ve done the same for some of the older folks here.
I never get tired of snow photos as long as I don’t have to shovel it!
Virginia is not that far north, but I am beginning to feel like a northern shoveler–I may need to adopt that duck as a logo. I’ve helped out lots of folks–it’s how I was raised.
Hope its gone soon, thats alot of snow.. 🙂
Temperatures soared to 50 degrees yesterday, so we got some melt, but there are huge mounds of snow throughout the neighborhood. They look like miniature icebergs.