Do you own the building? If you’re just renting then it’s the property owner’s responsibility

Somerville is a rat nest

Lol! I said the same thing about the email on another platform.

We got like half an inch of snow. It will all be melted by tomorrow. Just push it to the side of the sidewalk.

I see a minimum of 2 rats a day in Allston, but also a bunch of squirrels rabbits and the occasional turkey which is pretty neat.

Almost makes January in Boston look pleasant.

Rats don't like peppermint. Peppermint oil diluted with water and spray the perimeter of your house / entrances. And in the summer you can plant peppermint plants.

Doesn't help your dirty neighbours who are messy buggers though.

on the neighbors car

Get a flamethrower

And a pro tip is to make extra space at the curb where you or someone else would logically open a car door to get in or out of an auto. Bonus points if you make a second opening at the front or rear or a car to be able to, in theory, walk around it to the street (not always necessary).

I wasn’t talking to op

You took a picture. It lasted longer.

You’ve got a lot of nerve talking to OP like that, mikehoncho1955.

You just need to clear the sidewalk enough for it be passable (ideally by someone in a wheel chair). Pile it up either up against your building and clear the rest of the sidewalk to the street or make a pile at the edge of the curb and clear it to the building. If you’re near an area where plows left a big pile or near cars that shoveled out, add to those piles.

This winter is reminding me too much of 2015 for me to feel comfortable. Our first real snow that year was late January…and 10 feet later it was early March and we were all walking in sidewalk tunnels.

I'm in the burbs and I gave up. The mounds around my driveway and sidewalk were so high between the snowfall and pay shoveling that I couldn't even throw the snow high enough to get over them. There was nowhere to put it but the street, which of course I didn't do.

Clutch

This is a good, valid question. In Boston, the property owner is responsible for snow removal, not the tenants. Unless the tenants and landlord have an agreement (like I did), to provide snow removal to my landlord's satisfaction.

In my case, my landlord was an 82 y/o Irish immigrant who lived on the 2nd floor of my triple decker and would reward me and my roommates with home made soda bread from time to time.

For a piece of that soda bread, 4 hours of shoveling and salting was NOT too much to ask.

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Bend over and I’ll show you

I know what you are, but what am I?

Probably not whichever boomer made that

Lawful and courteous shovelers do what some people here have suggested: clear a 4 foot wide path, pile snow on curb close to street. Don't block curb cuts. Shovel with people who use canes and wheelchairs in mind. 6 inches of snow I'd shovel perpendicular to the street - push snow to the curb pile it on the curb.

What you going to do when it really snows? Just dump it on in the side of.car and make sure it's packed tight and high.

I think it means like, don’t block the road, areas to walk and parking spots.