Once the snow starts melting, if you know where the storm drains are in the roadway along your street, it will help to clear them so the resultant water runoff does not turn your street into a enormous slurpee. Ask me how I know...
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock