Spring Cleaning Time
By webeishere
@webeishere (36313)
United States
May 1, 2009 9:55am CST
Well here in Minnesota they use a salt and sand combination on the roads in the winter to melt the snow/ice etc. Early April they go by sweepiong the streets clean using various vehicles to do so. First a tractor with a steel brush sweeps it clean. That's this photo. Then a regular street sweeper then a final sweeper to get the last remains. A dirty and dusty time. I was lucky as the wind was blwoing away fropm my house sending the cloud of dust across the street. Does the city etc clean your streets in a like manner in spring?
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
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@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
1 May 09
Yes our city does clean the streets maybe just twice a year, and they dont do a good job at all. They only go down the street one time.
Yes it is very dusty when they do it too. I was driving one time and they were doing the streets and my windows were open , I had to shut them fast so all the dust wouldnt get in my car.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
1 May 09
Our city does a great job.
Spring and then early winter to clear the leaves from the streets.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
@tyc415 (5706)
• United States
1 May 09
Our city used to go around and clean the streets with the sweeper truck. I used to love to watch it when I was little and my kids got to see it and liked when it come around. Now our streets are never cleaned with a street sweeper. Our city just thinks of money and that's it. They are even wanting to change and pick up garbage just once a week instead of twice.
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@webeishere (36313)
• United States
1 May 09
Or garbage is picked up just once a week.
Recycling is picked up every two weeks as well.
I compost a lot so we never have a lot of garbage anyhow.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
@Darkwing (21583)
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8 May 09
We have our street cleaned periodically, as well as the drains, but the sand/salt combination they also use here to melt the snow and ice is left to get washed away by the rain, which we get plenty of! lol.
Brightest Blessings, my friend.
@walijo2008 (4644)
• United States
3 May 09
Your lucky where you live, I don't think they do that where I live, our roads and streets are bad here, they need to take better care of them.
@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
2 May 09
I am not sure whether there has been anyone worried about cleaning up the streets like this around where I live. Since most of the streets in a lot of areas have construction work on them going on, it means they are removing this stuff that way for sure. I just really wonder which is the Best way to do things like this to save $$ on people and roads for sure.
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
2 May 09
I really don't know which is worse, the town cleaning the streets or the landscaping companies cleaning the parking lots of business and apartment complexes! The dust is unbearable. There is nothing better than leaving the comfort of your car to enter a sandstorm! The grit gets into your hair, clothes and mouth! Great stuff to breathe in also.
@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
2 May 09
well, since we didn't even get an ICE storm this year, we didn't have anything to clean up - but the sweeper came by a couple of weeks ago, for all the good that did
no, when I lived in east Austin the sweeper TWICE dumped a load in front of the house I rented - the first time I didn't do anything, but the second time I called the city. A supervisor came out, saw what I said was true, and had them shovel it up.
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
2 May 09
Hey Grandpa Bob! Hell No! They don't clean anything here
where I live! They just cry how they have no money in this
very corrupt city that I live in Yonkers, NY! Remember that
name! We have tree branches that are hanging so low that if
there is a really bad storm again they will hit the apartments
or the cars or someone! And the City doesn't care! We have
been after them for years to cut them off! But, no! They just
let them get worse! One good wind storm and that's trouble!
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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1 May 09
Hi GRANDPA BOB,
We got one of those street sweepers as well, but they come early in the morning but I never see them as I am in bed, hehehe.
Tamara
