Tags for Forum Posts: get involved, grit, ice, passage, snow, winter
Cat said:
I was suggesting that we might be able to help more people in our community by applying that same effort to the pavements, given that footfall (stress on ‘fall’) is heavier on the pavements. People have a choice about using the passage but they can’t choose whether or not to use the pavements.
Cat: You're amost certainly right - clearing the pavements probably would have been better in the sense of being where more people walk. And perhaps if I'd suggested a "clear your street" session we'd have got people out to do it.
But more likely not. The promise of clearing the passage is that everyone's efforts help everyone - whereas clearing my street doesn't help a volunteer on another street. So each volunteer would be working alone, and faced with a huge task. Wonderful though they all are, I fear they'd have been demoralised and given up. I know I would have done, faced with the prospect of clearing the whole of Hewitt Road with just a couple of people.
So I suspect, but cannot prove, that if we'd chosen to do that we'd have ended up with nothing done.
The good news is that as a direct result of today, at least 3 streets had the pavements cleared from the passage down to Green Lanes, as did stretches of other streets.
Now as for the future - now we've seen how to do it, I'm sure we can form a new Snow Patrol and get the streets back into shape much more quickly next time. No need for a list of volunteers - HoL gives latent groups the ability to form at any time.
Finally, I'd love to see some people knocking on doors of anyone with snow/ice outside their house and asking why they haven't cleared their stretch :)
Thanks for helping out, not.
Milo said:do you know how much salt costs ? ! I tried with a spade outside the front of my house earlier and its a no go, like trying to crack a brazil nut with a feather. Considering "Global Warming" is likely to result in many more of these colder winters (sarcasm) I suggest everyone invests in some decent grippy shoes :)
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