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Discussion Started: 01-08-2007, 8:32 AM

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We seem to be getting a lot of snow this season. What do your think about our wacky weather? We can't do anything about the weather, but this is your chance to talk about it.

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Triskelion

01-23-2007, 10:52 AM

Just something I would like to point out for those who are interested or have actual concerns over the snow shoveling tickets the city of Denver has been distributing.

The city of Denver has been issuing $150 tickets to homeowners who have not shoveled their public sidewalks. PUBLIC sidewalks. The city owns the sidewalks, as much as the streets. It is illegal for them to issue such tickets due to the fact that the homeowner does not own the property. Could they issue the homeowner for not filling in a pothole that was in front of their house? No.

A permit must be applied for and approved by the city for any work done on a sidewalk, so how can it be the responsibility of the homeowner? It is legally not their responsibility.

I would not pay a penny of that fine and the city could do absolutely nothing about it.

Connie S.

01-22-2007, 5:49 PM

I believe you should do it if you can. I have cleared the sidewalk just to have a plow come by and bury it again. Therefore when conditions are as bad as the present with no place to put the snow from the street you should not have to. Otherwise, yes you should. Connie Parker

Thank you

lvlaiduc

01-22-2007, 5:12 PM

The city of Aurora could make several thousand dollars here along 7th Avenue by fining the lazy homeowners who haven't even tried to shovel their walks. The money could be used for overtime pay for the snow plow drivers to take care of the streets!

Hussie69

01-22-2007, 4:51 PM

While I've always agreed that a homeowner is responsible for shoveling their side walks, I find it completely unfair when the city plows end up putting it right back for them... Then they have the nerve to fine the homeowner, who has already shoveled or paid someone else to do it. "Snow Removal" should be just that, "removal"...Don't keep piling responsibilities of the city onto tax paying citizens.

As for the snow, I'm a Colorado native who is stuck in the hell of Southern California for the time being...They had snow out here last week, and you'd swear they were gonna fall out of their shoes...I thought it was great! It cleaned out the air, and got cold enough to kill off some of the hoards of germs floating around...Be thankful, Mother nature knows what it needs to do...

ShadowMt.

01-21-2007, 9:48 PM

Two years ago I moved from the Denver area to the foothills. It may be round 5 for Denver but it's round 6 for us hillbillies up here and we are measuring 11.7 feet. I was not expecting this. But I do remember the 70"s and the snow then. I also remember the thunderstorms that came across like clockwork every summer afternoon that are no longer part of our beautiful Colorado weather. Maybe this is returning to normal. I also agree with the opinions on the flatlanders and their SUV's and endangering all of the rest of us with their driving inabilities. Maybe they'll leave after this huh?!

Cheers!

Dr-Z

01-12-2007, 12:31 AM

This weather, while out of the ordinary, is to be expected. It's funny to hear the transplants complaining about lack of snow removal. It's Colorado! It snows here!

It's an El Nino year - so much for "global warming"!

About adding snow removal equipment? - Not necessary and not wise. This is too infrequent of an event to warrant the expense.

Skyrokhet

01-11-2007, 10:55 PM

Having lived here for 50 years I have experienced all types of winters. We have had bad winters before and they do seem to come in cycles. When I was in college I had a friend from AZ and she wanted to know when she she put on and take off her snow tires (this was in the studded snow tires days) and I told her Labor Day to Memorial day. She thought I was kidding untill she experienced a couple of winters here.

SolomonII

01-09-2007, 3:31 PM

I've lived here all my life and this is the sort of weather I trudged thru to get to school then in the 1970's thru the mid 1990's drove in get to work. Since the late 1990's up until this winter year the winters were getting milder. I don't care for all this snow but atleast I Know how to drive in it. Unlike all these flatlanders from California and other similar states in their four wheel drives that think they can go thru anything like a Bat out of Hell! then stop on a dime. They are the ones you see in the ditch or wrapped around a pole down the road after they pass you. Some Say the wacky weather is due to Global Warming(Politics), the True Sientists with common sense know it's due to El Nino.

SolomonII

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