Went out to move the car

and there was a small problem.

For those of you who aren't local - Minneapolis has this set of parking restrictions calls "Snow Emergency". They declare it, from 9pm that night to 8am the next day is no parking on snow emergency routes. On day 2, from 8am-8pm, or the street is plowed to curb, whichever comes earlier, you cannot park on parkways or the even sides of residential streets. On day 3, from 8am-8pm, or the street is plowed to curb, whichever comes earlier, you cannot park on odd sides of residential streets. Odd and even is indicated by house number.

So, I went out about 9pm to move my car. And discovered that the plow had been down the center of 11th, but was nowhere near the curb. Right now, there's the odd side, where you can't park starting in just over another eight hours, a plowed lane down the center, and a snowbank left by the plow about five feet across where I should park. It is impossible to park without obstructing traffic.

I got the car out of where it was snowed in relatively easily - a neighbor had parked right behind me, and I only had to clear a little snow to be able to back into there and pull out. So I decided to drive around and see where everyone was parking - there were only two other cars on my block, the rest had to be somewhere! I found them all on 39th - it had two plowed lanes, so I could park and not block traffic.

I need to run to the post office tomorrow - I was planning on being there shortly after they opened. It will be interesting to see where I get to park when I come back.

... (about two hours later)

Oh, I see didn't post this. The plows just went by - looks like I'll get to park in front of my house in the morning.

Nope, I can't park in front of the house

Well, I could. But it would be a mistake. There's currently about a lane and a half cleared. Parking in front of the house would be exposing the car to entirely too much risk of getting side-swiped or hit. I'll wait until they plow the odd side.