Do you clear your path?

[ComedyPilot]

Do you clear your path /drive of snow?

Do you trudge over it, compacting it down, then complain when it becomes icy?

What snow...?

I am a smug git that lives in Australia, and don't have to clear snow.........now where's my fire extinguisher...?

 

[Radchenister]

Where's the 'I can't, I've got a gravel drive' option?

 

[palinurus]

I compact it down, but I don't complain when it becomes icy since I fully expect it to become so.

I think of it as a bit of practice before I get to the pavement.

 

[Arch]

Or the "I don't have a path at all?" option?

 

[Jimmy Doug]

I have to clear the pavement outside my house - it's the law in France. Is this the case in the UK too? Actually, this really annoys me. The elderly, the handicapped or those who are away on holiday/work or whatever are responsible if someone slips on the pavement outside their house.

 

[Archie_tect]

When we first moved into our house I offered to clear the drives of the elderly couples' 2 bungalows across the road and next door house...
Now every time we get any snow I get anxious little faces peering out at me... but it only takes an hour or so, and it's good fun when all the neighbours are out being daft.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I've noticed that nature clears my path every time. It always melts eventually

 

[ianrauk]

I clear my path and that of 2 elderly neighbours.

 

[postman]

I don't but the wife does..Then she puts down rock salt/sand.
Then i get p off because it all gets into the kitchen and i have to keep cleaning the floor.

 

[uphillstruggler]

We have elderly neighbours so i usually clear about 5 houses each way, spread some grit too.

doesnt take long, you cant complain about something if your not prepared to do it yourself.

 

[Jimmy Doug]

I clear the path for my next-door-neighbour. Trouble is, not all neighbours are 'neighbourly' around here.

 

[biggs682]

sometimes i do but try not to as it normally breaks all the surface tarmac up !!!!!!!!

i do try and do the pavement going past the house

 

[fossyant]

Generally clear it.

We made a couple of home made snow shovels a few years back, just a piece of 10mm MDF and a broom handle. We ended up using them to clear the hill to the house as they shifted that much snow in one go, and the school playground.

 

[fossyant]

That said, the kids like doing it, and are out there now getting rid of what we have.

 

[Night Train]

There is no option for 'No, my 80 year old mother gets out there early in the morning to clear it all, and grit it, before any early visitors arrive.'.

I think I beat her out there once, but that was before 6am. She likes to keep on top of the job so there isn't the depth, nor packed ice, to deal with each morning.

My mum's amazing, 80 years old this March and doesn't look, or act, much over 50!