(02-23-2015, 09:08 AM)creative Wrote: it is perfectly fine to shovel snow back onto the road creating an extremely dangerous driving condition where an otherwise clear road suddenly becomes clogged by snow.
What do you propose then? When I lived in a house and the city blocked me in I'd try to shovel the snow on either side of the driveway as best I could. But as winter wore on that became increasingly difficult as the existing snow bank got higher and higher. And when a snow plow comes by and blocks your driveway shortly after you've cleared it, it becomes awfully difficult to resist "flipping the bird" at the city by shovelling the stuff back where it came from.
Keep in mind too that these windrows are composed of hard-packed snow. Often they're heavy and require a metal shovel rather than a plastic snow pusher. I recall more than once when we were away for the weekend and the windrow had frozen solid. I needed to spend an hour using a pick axe (something every home owner has, eh?) to break up the ice in order to get into my own driveway.
While I don't condone pushing snow back onto the street, I can certainly understand the frustration that drives some people to do it.