Holly –
Winter Awareness
Wow, we
were certainly hit hard on Sunday through to Monday with all that snow! I don’t know about you but it is all a bit
depressing in February. I know it is
still winter but I always expect and hope for Spring to arrive sooner than
later. Wiarton Willie after all did not
see his shadow on February 2nd, so I am depending on that albino
ground hog to be right!
In the
meantime, let’s not forget to be triple careful when we drive our streets. Some of our snow banks are reaching heights
upwards to 6 feet which means we can’t see cars when we are walking or people
when we are driving. We start to get used to driving in these
conditions and become complacent of our surroundings. Particularly around our schools…kids aren’t
always looking so let’s try our best to look out for them. The temptation to play in the snow banks by
the road is very high and I am the ‘Debbie Downer’ Mom that doesn’t allow
this. It just takes one slip to fall
down a bank and into the road. The
schools in our area have students that are primarily walking to school and the
peak times to see kids either going to school are between 8-9am &
2:30-3:30pm.
Kudos to
the city for the great maintenance of your streets and sidewalks this
year. Despite the pile of snow often
found at the base of our driveway in the early morn (I know you all can relate)
it is really great that our city makes sure our streets are made as safe as
possible. It just seems to me that
things are done before we even have time to really think about it. I have not had to trudge through snow to
collect my mail from the community mail box and I am grateful for that. I also know that our fire hydrants will have
snow cleared from them in the near future which is another attention to detail
to help keep our community safe. Not to
mention, it is nice see where our tax dollars are going!
Hope
everyone is having a wonderful February so far…roll on Spring!!
Yours
truly,
Natalie
