Unsung Heroes...

 I've blogged about them before...drivers and other public servants who go to work when many of us want to not go anywhere. They climb in their trucks and push snow from the streets so that the society can continue moving.

Unsung heroes.

As far as the latest storms are concerns, we did not get hit as bad as many of our in-state neighbors. No, we did not have to shovel our driveways every day for the past week. We only had measurable snow twice, with one storm dumping more snow than the other. Still, without those snowplows running, it would have made life much more miserable...

And unsafe.

It's funny--there are so many people out there that we never think about until we need them, yet, they're behind their desks and their steering wheels day after day, year after year doing their jobs. We don't see them or think about them because we think we don't need them. Then, we get some debilitating snow and then we think about them...think about them a lot.

Up here, many people have trucks, big trucks with big tires that could probably drive over several feet of fallen snow. Many people who live here are extremely "prepared" for events like snow. But, a good government is to help everyone, to help those of us who have all-wheel drive vehicles in the shop or waiting to have their transmissions fixed. No, us non-all-wheel-drive minivan drivers need those plows clearing the way.

Thank you snowplow drivers and dispatchers! I'll sing a blogging song so you won't be so unsung. ;)