This seems a little odd to me because it was the city's plows that first buried the car and then it was the city's police that came and said that it had to be moved.
I've dealt with this before. Living next to the park which is full of dandelions every spring, I've asked the park board if they would please spray the park to free it of the yellow flowers. But to no avail, because the park board doesn't want to spray anything that could hurt the kids in the park. How benovelent.
So, all the homeowners have to hire professional lawn sprayers to kill our dandelions, because if we don't the city comes along and writes us a ticket for not taking care of our lawns.
I once called the mayor and asked him if he could talk to the park board about spraying their dandelions, but he told me the park board is sovreign, which I guess means they have the same power as God.
Anyway, it's a beautiful winter day in North Dakota, and while we have 30 inches of snow, there's a place in Alaska called Whittier that averages 400 inches of snow every year. The people who live in Whittier on Prince William Sound are called "Whitt-idiots."
So it could be worse. How's your winter going?
The picture was taken on Friday, January 2nd, before the policeman came and tagged it. The car was moved on Saturday after a lot of chunks of snow and ice were shoveled by hand.
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Compared to yours, a cakewalk now. We had a few days of warmth that's all but melted the snow and left everything with an odd rippled ice coating that has a surprising amount of grip for walking.
Sovreign huh.The other day I was talking to some people about how the BLM had changed rules on camping in the last 2 years.It must be some of that Sovreign stuff.There sure wasn't anyone at BLM with the answer.If a person called 3 BLM employees you could hear 3 different opinions on the same subject.One year ago there was no set distance a camper had to move after 14 days in a BLM campground.I know because I called the BLM.This year,it's 25 miles.When I worked as camp host for the forest service,a camper could stay in a Forest Service,or government, campground all summer as long as they paid the fee.I know that because I was the fee collector.The folks I was talking to told me,because they worked at Big Sky,Mt.,they were allowed to stay only three days.That's the same camp ground I took care of.What's with all the new rules?These places I'm talking about never get so full that people have to be turned away from,for over-crowding.Should where you work determine how long you can stay on Government land?Things have changed and I can't see where anyone is looking out for the people that the land was set aside for.I'm not much liking sovreign.It's starting to feel like private to me.Aren't these things up for debate?Do you suppose the car would have been told to move in the summer?To me sovreign means;There's Us and There's everyone else.Any Ideas?
I, too, have been enjoying the amazing snowfall that has settled in Mandan, ND. After so many years of mediocre snowfall totals, I think the city and it's occupants are trying to get back into the swing of snow removal. I had to call the police department in the city in which I work to have a pick-up towed that had been parked in front of our business since early December. The person I spoke with wanted the license plate number, but the plate, like the car in your picture, was buried. They sent over some police to dig through the tunnel to get the license number so it could be towed. Why not wait for the tow truck to pull the pick-up out before getting the license number? I guess that's why they are the authorities and I am not.
There is something to be said for untouched whipped cream like snow that sparkles in the sunshine,(forget all of the dirty stuff the plow dug up) but..........It is also hard to beat, clear blue skies, a hawk spreading his wings across the mountain looking for prey, as I sip a beer on my patio in 73 degree sunshine.
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