As a Michigander I think about this a LOT. Corner lot people in particular, I'm looking at you. And whenever I see a particularly crisp line between the lot of a neighbor who shovels and one who doesn't it speaks volumes about how passive aggressive their neighbor relations are.
Lol I JUST sent an email to students telling them not to get their hopes up about tomorrow morning's ice storm because the roads will likely be passable by tomorrow afternoon when we have class, I'm a Snow Day Grinch. But I shovel our sidewalk damnit because we live in a society!
Southeast Michigan is getting an icestorm tomorrow as a final polar vortex hurrah before we inch about freezing and into the 40s. My partner (who I joke is the Steve Kornacki of snow day predicting) says most schools will wait to make the call tomorrow.
Some people can't, and their neighbors don't offer to help them. This is the first year I've been unable to clear snow, and it's depressing, believe me.
I lived in Colorado during the 2016 election. We had a snowstorm, not a big one around the time of the election. Someone came and cleared the sidewalks for everyone in the neighborhood that had not posted a Trump sign in their yard.
The first online dharma talk I heard was from the Chicago Zen Center(?) & was about compassion for people who do things you don't like, eg. not shovelling your sidewalk.
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