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Originally Posted by Intrigued
Hey, Seattle made the national news yesterday with the snow. The town only has like 27 snowplows, they said, and were just overwhelmed. Was that where the spot came from about the snowplow turning over on it's side???
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Most of NY *that I'm familiar with* hires freelance plowers all winter long on "sit contracts"
They pay them a retainer fee to be ready on call, and when it's necessary, they go forth in droves and plow everything in sight!
Many of those same guys have contracts with the local businesses to plow their lots for anything up to $200/hour, depending on the amount of snow and the limits to removal.
One of my neighbors, all year long, would take equipment to a store front, move the snow, pick up the snow, and dumptruck it back to his yard, where he'd dump it in piles... his kids would then have a field day playing in the mountain of snow.
And he got paid $100 a truck load to haul it away.