Ditto on your comments about slush and drains (and parking). Being at the low spot on our street we know full well what being a keeper of the drains means.

So You guys have problems with your drains too. Until our street was redone 12 years ago we had a constant nightmare with the drain in front of our house, we’re at the lowest spot on the road and it was always plugging with snow, slush, and leaves and most of the other drains on the street were in the wrong places or plugged so all the water ended up at the drain by us. We became the keeper of the drains for 20 years, a role we didn’t relish, but was for our own self preservation.