We drove into the next town today to pick up a few things. It snowed a few more inches last night, so the roads were pretty snowy again. One funny thing I noticed was how many poor mailboxes have been run over or covered by the snow plow.
As much abuse as my poor mail box has taken over the years, somehow the plow has missed it.
Of course, I probably just jinxed it.
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Did you turn around CCW 3 times, stamp your feet and bang your head on wood to stop the jinx?????? ;)
Hopefully we won't see pics of your former mailbox!
Okay, stupid question here.
Are those mailboxes still on poles? Is the snow THAT high???
*giggles* @ stacy....
wow that's deep alright
lol yes Stacy.. they're on poles. I'd guess there's about 3-4 feet of snow under them.
My box fell victim last year, I put it back together with some serious lag screws...shouldn't go anywhere this winter.
51 and sunny here today! And it's only a little past noon!
blogger hijacked my comment :(
Coming to a theater near you!
"Murdered Mailboxes in Montana"
Lol...I am sooooo envious!
After enlarging the photo, my question is, how can there be such varying numbers on mailboxes that are grouped together? Or did you stumble upon a mailbox graveyard, the home of all the mailboxes ever mowed down by snow plows?
Yes, some mailboxes do get completely mowed down by the plow.
And yes, those are real mailboxes. Sometimes because of so many houses being WAY off the main road, they combine several in one area.
Plus, we were recently rezoned (not sure that's the right word) for 911, so we got new addresses. Made for a lot of confusing mailboxes :)
Leesa
Growing up in New England, where we had snow, not as much as that, but still, snow that required snow plowing. Now we had the luxury of having our own post box, and that makes a difference. The mailbox is on a board, attached to a 90 degree 2 inch galvanized elbow, the end is attached to a 2 inch diameter galvanized pipe that extends about 6 feet back where its attached to a 2 inch galvanized elbow that is then attached to a post that is in concrete in the ground. So the actual post is 6 feet more or less from the street, and the whole thing can swivel. So as the snow plow is sending a wall of heavy slushy snow backwards, when it hits the actual mailbox, it swivels harmlessly out of the way. Then you go out, straiten it out and no missing mailbox.
I worked during college winter break driving snowplows for the rural town I lived in. When the snow ended, the highway department people, especially the part timers like myself, would have to go out and fix/replace mailboxes that we hit. Cars that we hit didn’t get ANY special treatment, but mailboxes, well we had to fix them up.
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