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WHY? Part 1

Sometimes I wonder why people are, or are not concerned with certain things. Today, I will show you a certain driveway a block or so away from my house. In the dead of a Minnesota winter, this driveway is always completely clean! But why???


This is what the street looks like near my house.

This is what a typical driveway looks like. There are no piles of snow, but it has a layer of slush and ice. This is how things look when the temperature stays below freezing most of the time.


This is the "why" driveway. First of all, how do you get it absolutely free of all snow, ice and even dirt??? Secondly, why would you do that??? As you can see by the yellow thingamajig, no one is apparently allowed to drive on the DRIVEway!

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