Wow, the responses on here are awful. You have no idea if there are physical reasons why they can't shovel, or snow blow. Maybe that's why they have someone to plow it for them. Have some compassion my fellow Vermonters.

As a fellow infant parent who's plow guy didn't come (for our private road) - no offense but get to work. Also moving forward schedule propane deliveries well before you need it and for a day where weather isn't bad.

At the end of the day you are responsible for making sure your house is accessible. Yes you hired a plow guy but as you can see, things happen when you rely upon others. If you live in a place where you could possibly get in this situation i think it behooves you to have a level of personal preparedness.

Can you not shovel it? It wouldn't take that much to clear enough for a car to get through it. And with the coming warm period, if you get down to gravel or asphalt it'll melt quickly.

Yeah I hate to be like that but....i also have an 8mo old and the guy who plows my private ROAD (not even my driveway) didn't show yesterday. I was out there with my ATV plow until that broke, then I finished it off with my snowblower. Took forever and I'm sore as fuck but now my neighbors and I can get out.

But my wife and I made the decision to live out here. We have cars that can handle all but the craziest snow, we put good tires on the cars, we schedule propane delivery well before we need it and for a time where weather is not a factor, we have our own snow clearing machines and redundancies (ATV with plow, snowblower, and a good ol shovel). We also have a good rapport with neighbors who will help in an instant, including a farmer with every type of tractor and plowing implement you can imagine.

Knock on some doors, make some calls, and otherwise get to work.

Stop whining and start shoveling

What an asshole taking a fucking vacation. That pos should be hung

genuinely curious, are you from out of state?

You live in a relatively rural part of vermont. Sometimes we gotta do things the hard way. Grab a couple shovels and get to work

Snowblower. You can’t be dependent on others and live here.

have you tried front porch forum?

Shovel?

Likely blend door issues, although there is a valve under the hood that stops flow through the heater core. There isnt any adjustment that i know of, just a few cables that are fixed so i have no idea what your mechanic did.

Look on your firewall, under the hood. Locate your heater hoses, i believe the valve is on the drivers side (it is on my 00 4 runner). Confirm that when you select warm/cool air inside the cab, that cable is infact opening and closing the valve. If it is, you've confirmed a blend door issue. If not, disconnect the cable and zip tie the valve open.

If its a blend door issue, look under the radio (from the side, put your head where your feet would be, pass side i believe but check both), you'll see your heater box and you should be able to see a cable connected to it. either push or pull that cable in the direction it needs to move for heat (trial and error, 50% chance).

A 12v plug-in heater is your friend in the meantime until it can be fixed properly
OEM 4runner parts are getting quite hard to come by

4x4 in winooski prolly knows

get a shovel

>I hope you saw a Dr soon after.

Im american, of course I didnt

She puts the ho in ho hum... I hope you saw a Dr soon after.

Money makes everything messy.

There are jobs everywhere right now. Especially in rural America

There are many other gay-friendly states and all of them have higher vacancy rates. Would you be working in Vermont? If so, you could consider moving here, but the housing issue is such that it will be difficult or impossible to find a job in the state that comes close to paying for housing. if you're moving here to work from home, be aware you are gentrifying locals out of the state. If that doesn't bother you, fine. If locals hate you here it will be if you are a work from home yuppie, not because of who you sleep with.

I think is pretty accurate, especially getting hosed on a house. When the collapse comes here, and it will come, a lot of people are going to be paying for some very overvalued houses.

We don't hate you, Rama. We think you were well meaning but have a very poor grasp of etiquette. However, your failure to learn says it's more than just an innocent mistake.

Try front porch forum, and make sure to phrase it so that guys with decked out trucks feel like you are suggesting that they wouldn't be able to plow it. Trust me, you'll get responses real fast.

I joked with a buddy of mine that his truck probably couldn't tow my tiny house, and you better believe I ended up hiring him to tow it lol

Beautiful, also what a kind and encouraging thread. You people are all right!

Try posting on your town’s Front Porch Forum.