My local hospital has it and I know that on the days after a snow storm I've gotten dripped on but haven't had any snow fall on me.

If course they've thought about these issues.

My point was that it isn't just a matter of putting up the solar panels over a parking lot and there is a ton of savings because they no longer have to plow and salt.

It has been done in plenty of lots so there is no reason to think that it can't be done in others. I too would rather see it in lots than on cleared first plots .

I posted this earlier in this thread but will repost it here.

Just because they put solar panels up on parking lots doesn't mean there would be no winter maintenance on the lots. The snow doesn't disappear. It will slide off of the panels and need to be cleaned up or it will melt and re-freeze as ice on the asphalt. There would need to me more salting or sanding because they owners do not want someone slipping on an icy lot and getting injured.

And imagine the nightmare is the snow slides off the panels and lands on someone.

I'm just saying it isn't as simple as it seems.

Just because they put solar panels up doesn't mean there would be no winter maintenance on the lots. The snow doesn't disappear. It will slide off of the panels and need to be cleaned up or it will melt and re-freeze as ice on the asphalt. There would need to me more salting or sanding because they owners do not want someone slipping on an icy lot and getting injured.

And imagine the nightmare is the snow slides off the panels and lands on someone.

I'm just saying it isn't as simple as it seems.

Maybe they'd strike oil while they are digging and that would finance the whole project.

> fee will rise from $18.65 to $26.

$26 is $27 though. Your thread title is misleading. LOL

Your best bet would be to spread the leaves out a little with a rake first to let them dry a bit and then blow them.

Leaving a pile of leaves or even mulched leaves will kill your lawn. If you had started mulching early (which would have spread the mulch more) would probably have been ok but piles don't.

You are right. Making multiple passes during a storm will make things much more doable.

My point was that a powerful snow blower will handle a 1 ft snowfall fairly easily (unless it is slushy) whereas a 1 ft snowfall will cause problems for a lawn tractor with a plow is you try it with 1 pass.

First thing first. A lawn tractor with a plow will be a huge disappointment. Small storms wouldn't be a problem but anything over a 6 inch accumulation (which can be quite common) will be a struggle. If there is slushy snow it will struggle.

A good sized tractor with a snow thrower attachment will be ok but will be very pricey.

Spend the money on a good sized (larger than you think you'll need) snow blower. Someone mentioned Ariens and I've had a good experience with mine. It'll deal with a foot of snow and blow it quite a distance.

I can see both side of the leaf mulching/collecting/blowing issue. I am lucky enough to live in a rural area and can just blow my leaves into the woods on the edges of my lawn. The trick is to make multiple passes over days/weeks. Don't wait until all of the trees are bare and think you'll get by with just one day of leaf clean up.

EDITED TO ADD:

A few months ago I posted THIS to a thread asking about snow clearing strategies.

$34 for us. Yippee!

We received ours about a week ago and were very underwhelmed.

We went through the online estimator and I guess they got it right. I just thought it would be more.

> teeth

teeff

> The hidden message in the song is that he tells the story and says he's REALLY here to talk about the draft

Well it's not really hidden given that Arlo says that exact thing in the song.

now put a webcam on it so they can stream the views

Well the law went into effect at about the same time as the covid shortages started. Everything went up in price.

Why did the price go up just as much over the border in NH at the same time?

> Didn’t we pass laws giving chicken more space and a law went into effect this year impacting importing eggs?

I shop in Mass which did pass the "cage free egg" law and in NH which did not pass the "cage free law" and I don't notice much of a difference in prices.

> Massachusetts passed a law a few years ago, that recently came into effect, that all eggs (and egg whites) have to be from cage-free producers. > > > > The vast majority of other states do not have these requirements, and thus producers do not shift their production methods to sell eggs in MA. We are just way way too small of a market to do so. > > > > This, combined with avian flu, drastically reduced the available egg supply under MA law and prices have gone up as a result.

I live near the NH border and do my grocery shopping on both sides or the boarder. I am seeing no difference in the Mass price and the NH price.

I just think that there is no need to even mention her sexual preference. It doesn't matter. I don't need to know how she drinks her coffee, I don't need to know what kind of car she drives, I don't need to know a lot of things that have nothing to do with the job.

Lot's of people put a lot of effort to get people to stop labeling others.

You are absolutely right, equity and equality are worth striving for, and we aren't there yet, but continuing to label people just pushes equality further away.

I don't know why you are being downvoted. There has been battles for quite a while so that people aren't labeled and here they are defining someone with a label.

She is a politician. She won the election. I hope she does a good job for the state.

don't you get it? All gays like the color purple and lavender is a lighter shade of purple. /s

Exactly. Why even bring this up when talking about her?

I've always been in favor of equality and see no reason to even mention this.

Hardwick and Petersham are close to the Quabbin Reservoir so I would guess there may be restrictions on the amount of salt that they can put down.

Which candidate is going to benefit from this?

My Honda dealer had a backlog of replacements too and they gave me a nice replacement vehicle while I was waiting for the part to come in.

Well you claim that you have to eat lunch to be able to continue working well so you should be paid for it. I would argue that you also need to sleep to be able to work well so you should get paid for it.

I know it's a stupid statement but that's the point. So is yours.