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The city issued the following press release today:

Mayor John S. Brenner reminds residents to clear their sidewalks of snow and ice.

Residents are also reminded that according to Section 302.3.1 of the City of York Property Maintenance Code, the owner, occupant and/or tenant of every property in the City shall remove all snow and ice from all sidewalks on the property within eight hours after snow has ceased to fall. The cleared area shall be at least 36 inches wide along the entire length of the sidewalk.

Snow that has stopped falling after 10 p.m. must be removed before 10 a.m. the next morning.

To view the full section of the ordinance visit www.yorkcity.org or for more information call the Bureau of Permits, Planning and Zoning at (717) 849-2256.

Today is the kind of day I wish I still drove my grandfather's old Jeep. It would plow through everything, no problem.

Anyway, it was pretty nasty on my drive from the city to West Manchester Township this morning. There wasn't a clear road in sight. Everything was pretty much covered.

My car was parked pointing south on South Queen Street, and typically I would have snuck down Mason Avenue to Duke Street and made my way to Philadelphia Street. But I figured that the alley wouldn't be clear, so I took Princess Street to George Street. I still slid around on several streets.

So be careful out there. If you can, stay home!

Well.

I take back all of yesterday's joy over the snow. Today's glop isn't fun snow. The "wintery mix" that fell last night and this morning left an undelightful covering of ice on top of the nice, sweet fluffy snow that had been previously falling.

It took something like 20 minutes to get it off the car. And it broke my ice scrapper. Yes, the ice on my car somehow was stronger than the plastic blade of the scrapper. Go figure.