In my part of Minnesota us farmers mow the road ditches for hay to bale. Very few are ever left to grow. About every 15-20 years so,done comes along and tries to steal my hay. Always a big argument. Silly.
Anyhow, the govenor wants to help his rich hunting buddies, and the Twin Cities representatives don't have a clue, so they are working to keep the road ditched uncut, because it's such prime nesting habitat. (Really? Just really? What morons....) so anyhow sometime soon I'm sure they will require the road sides grow up ugly and tangled and trees will take over. Then those City folk will require we raise our taxes to spray out the weeds and trees. When for now it's all done free by the folks making hay off the ditches. It's actually written into a lot of deeds, the road right of way easement given in exchange for making hay along the road.....
As OldTanker says, snow removal in rural Minnesota has become a joke, they wait until 4 inches of snow and then start in, with the drifting out here on the prairies they can't catch up with 100 miles of road anymore if they start that late, and so then just close the roads until the winds stop and take another 4 hours to clear the roads from the big drifts, spend more time and bigger equipment to get the job done. City folk set the rules, don't make any sense out in the country. My county still does a good job with snow plowing, the state highways are awful. Leaving the grass and brush grow in the road ditches makes the snow drifts worse on the roads.
Was in the Twin Cities paper once, they have lots of research on high tech, and man hours, to keep the Twin Cities roads cleared at all times, haven't had a snow closure there in over a decade, early plowing, in road salt spraying on bridges, yadda yadda, they have nearly as many plows in the metro area as they have in the whole rest of the state.
No one cares just dumb rural folk. They put up solar powered signs on all the rural roads, if it snows just put the flashing lights on and close the roads and might get around to plowing the deep drifts out by the next noon.
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