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Tidying Up After the Omaha Blizzard

Our neighborhood Omaha street has received it's second pass of the city snowplow, an event that I both look forward to and dread.

You see, by the time the second trip of the snowplow comes around, driveways have mostly all been shoveled nicely enough so that vehicles can enter the street from these driveways, after perhaps hours of shoveling to get them just right.

Then come the snowplows, with their drivers either in a pleasant mood, or perhaps not so pleasant of a mood. We always hope they are in a pleasant mood, but dread their coming, if by chance, they are this time determined to plow as much snow as possible on to the recently cleaned driveways.

A Snowplow from Omaha

...I took a late night glance out the window last night to see if it was snowing, then, seeing there was no snow coming down, decided to head outdoors to try some night time pictures of the Omaha Nebraska snow.

Check this out, an Omaha snow plow made it's second trip down our street, and the street itself looks almost fair, but acceptable, considering what we've had dumped on us.

Yet there is even more to this story...

Omaha Snow Plow Gift

Though it was two days past Christmas, the snow plow driver left each and every house on our block a gift, and here is Omaha's Christmas present to us, which was placed on our driveway and carefully positioned so that we would be sure to see it.

Not planning any early morning departures, I decided to leave this pile of snow till morning...

In the morning, Vicky looked out the window and said, "I think that big pile of snow on our driveway is gone."

Somewhat skeptical, I went into the front porch for a better look at our driveway, and yes, that bank of snow was gone! A trip outside for a closer look at this revealed no sign of a snow plow coming back by to tidy things up, however, the were signs that somebody had come by with a snow shovel and cleaned things up for us!

Thank you!