Winter Damage / myLot

United States

February 4, 2010 12:24pm CST

This photo is of the house across the street from me. They recently erected a nice fence across their large property line. Well, with the snow and ice we've had lately the plows have to clear the streets. As you can tell in this photo there are/were large chunks of frozen snow clumps plowed onto this guys property destroying a few areas of his fencing. I doubt they've called to complain about this damage from the city's work as they are new to the country and speak very little English. I'd have been on the phone the day it happened raising kane to get it repaired. What would you do in the same situation if the city was at fault for destruction of your property? HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

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17 responses

ANTIQUELADY

@ANTIQUELADY (36440)

• United States

4 Feb 10

I would be raising hell w/them.Sounds like your city workers are about like the ones we have here.

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city workers

webeishere

@webeishere (36313)

• United States

4 Feb 10

All they had to do when plowing this type of snow'ice etc is to angle their plows a bit more so it would not throw the chunks so far. Thankfully it wasn't my fence as I'd be at the city copuncil meetings rasing hell.

HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

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ANTIQUELADY

@ANTIQUELADY (36440)

• United States

4 Feb 10

Too bad it was anybody's.

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dragon54u

@dragon54u (31634)

• United States

4 Feb 10

Wow, that's horrible! Are you going to offer to help him out or let him know he has a right to complain? I know they need to clear the snow but there must be some way to avoid this kind of damage.

I love the new feature where you can view the discussion instead of going right to the reply box.

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webeishere

@webeishere (36313)

• United States

4 Feb 10

The review has always been there just at the very bottom of the emails. I learned that years ago. Hee hee. I won't offer help as I have called 911 on them for their burning of GARBAGE in their firepit which smoked up and stunk up the whole neighborhood. It cost them a hefty fine for the FD to extinguish the fires in the past. But like I said, they speak little to no English so it would be hard to get my point across etc. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

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EvrWonder

@EvrWonder (3571)

• Canada

4 Feb 10

If it were my fence I would be complaining for sure. If it were a neighbors, especially someone new and who speaks very little English, I would likely go to see them and give them some tips on how to go about getting their fence repaired, explaining that it was the City's fault so that they should be made to cover the repair costs. Would I call on their behalf? Probably not, but I would offer to help in assisting them to do so for themselves.

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@cher913 (25782)

• Canada

4 Feb 10

we live in a condo and we had solar light outside (the kind that are fairly flush with the ground) and we get our driveways plowed and well they went over a little too far and ahnailated our lights!

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webeishere

@webeishere (36313)

• United States

4 Feb 10

I had just bought a set of 8 solar lights like that as well awhile back. The day I put them in the ground my niece visited. Guess what? She ran one over with her car. Yes she drove onto the edge of the lawn breaking it. Hahahaha! HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

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TheRealDawn

@dawnald (85146)

• Shingle Springs, California

4 Feb 10

Whoopsie, your photo went awol... If we HAD snow and we HAD snowplows, I'd have been on the phone complaining too!

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webeishere

@webeishere (36313)

• United States

4 Feb 10

Fence damage - From chunks of ice/snow plowed onto the curbside.

Well it showed as being posted after I added tags. I'll try again then. Grrrr! HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

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TheRealDawn

@dawnald (85146)

• Shingle Springs, California

4 Feb 10

Much better!

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (47646)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

4 Feb 10

Oh my! That's a lot of damage.

sleepylittlerose

@sleepylittlerose (1648)

• United States

4 Feb 10

I would call an complain also; but it would more than likely fall on deaf ears where I am. They would come up with some excuse about it being a state of emergency or that my fence was too close to the road. The counties around here do not usually pay for damages unless their trucks did something really wrong and you can prove it.

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webeishere

@webeishere (36313)

• United States

4 Feb 10

There are regulations as far as location of fences etc in relation to the city property etc. They had to remove a lot and reset it to those specifications. So they are in the right in this instance. Our city would pay I am sure if they are/were contacted. The damage was a week or so ago so now it may be too late anyhow for a complaint to be handled correctly by the city as they may state anything may have caused the ice chunks to damage the fence. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~

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Thoroughrob

@Thoroughrob (11742)

• United States

5 Feb 10

If it was my fence, I would be turning it in. I know our city had to buy mailboxes because they took them down with the plow.

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minnie_98214

@minnie_98214 (10557)

• United States

8 Feb 10

That sucks...I would so be raising heck. But I bet it dont matter so much the city will probably just ignore it.

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babystar1

@babystar1 (4233)

• United States

6 Feb 10

If that was my fence I would be calling them up, and telling them to come over and fix it. But since they are new to the country maybe you can call for them.

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Grandmaof2

@Grandmaof2 (7579)

• Canada

5 Feb 10

Well now that is one good question because if this happened to me I don't have a clue what I would do because I am physically unable to go do the repair. My calculation in my mind tells me this is a substantial amount of damage. I guess I'd have to ask Grandpa Bob if he could come and give me a hand. hehehehehe Good to see you, it has been awhile and I did notice.

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substantial damage

tamarafireheart

@tamarafireheart (15384)

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5 Feb 10

Hi GRANDPA BOB, My hubby complains about the roads not being grited and if that had happened to our property, he'd would have been on the phone to them ans will keep pestering them till they do something about it, pay for the damage or compesate us. Tamara

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winter damage

thedailyclick

@thedailyclick (3017)

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5 Feb 10

I would be straight on the phone complaining and would continue to do so until they came and fixed it to the correct standard or compensated me adequately for both the damage and inconvenience. Here in the UK we occassionaly get issues where the town council cause accidental damage to private properties and usually they do fix their mistakes, although they are never in a hurry to do so or even admit to it until you become a pain in their neck.

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MagicalBubbles

@MagicalBubbles (5103)

• Canada

4 Feb 10

Hello webeishere, Wow, this is really bad. Not sure how come they didnt stop and try to fix it right then and there or call to have someone over to fix it. I had the snowplow damage part of my lawn before, a few pieced of grass missing and they sent me a letter come spring (when I could then see the damage) to let me know they'd come over soon to fix the damage. So I didnt even have to call. But if they were to do huge damage like this, yes, I would call and ask when they'll send someone to fix it.

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_Phun1

@_Phun1 (2)

• United States

5 Feb 10

Thank God I live where snow is considered a once in a blue moon event and it's currtly in the 60's outside.

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