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Winter Storm Warning in Effect, Monday 5pm Until Wednesday 8pm

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Stay updated by visiting http://www.weather.gov/cle/ or looking out your window.

* Accumulations…6 to 10 inches of snow from Monday evening
through Tuesday afternoon, with additional lake effect snow
continuing at times through Wednesday.

* Timing…Snow will begin Monday afternoon and increase
in intensity Monday night into Tuesday morning. Occasional snow
showers will continue Tuesday night and Wednesday.

* Impacts…Difficult driving conditions with reduced
visibility and snow covered roads.

* Winds…Northeast winds 10 to 20 mph Monday night becoming north
15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 35 mph on Tuesday.

* Temperatures…In the 20s.

Michigan neighborhood bands together to buy tractor, clear sidewalks: Could you?

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snowbuddy(Cleveland.com) (Ed: Next move for our neighborhoods for public safety?)

The residents of an Ann Arbor, Michigan, neighborhood pooled together to buy a $43,000 tractor to plow their sidewalks.

More than a dozen signed up to drive their sidewalk snowplow, SnowBuddy, around the 1,000 homes of Water Hill after snowstorms. Another 25 residents serve as shovelers, clearing the piles of snow left behind.

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It takes a village to keep sidewalks clear

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JasonStein(Jason Stein)

This has been an unusually cold winter. We have learned what a polar vortex is, and had more school snow days than my 30-something memory can recall. The winters of recent past had cold and snowy days, but there was always a break when temperatures would rise and the snow would melt. These thaws helped make the winter months feel shorter and cleared much of the snow from our sidewalks. This winter’s constant cold has highlighted an ongoing challenge: to keep our city walkable, even in the winter months.

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