The Twin Cities are digging out today.

[MineralMan]

6. Yes. That certainly can happen.

Part of the problem is the traffic that occurs prior to plowing. It packs the fresh snow down and makes it difficult to plow the streets completely. In addition, the city is skimpy on salt use on secondary residential streets. Then, there are streets where cars are left and plows have to go around them.

Some winters are especially bad, too. This year, we've had little snow, so the streets haven't been terrible so far. We'll see how the city does after this storm. I'm waiting to hear the plow go by so I can remove the berm at the end of my driveway. I keep it minimal by snowblowing up the street for about 75 feet, removing all the snow in an 8' wide path from the curb all the way. That generally keeps the driveway berm small. I started doing that after one horrible storm when the plow left a berm almost 4' high at the end of my driveway.