Been out in Reston Virginia the past couple of days on business.
Although the weather has been relatively nice, there are signs of snow
plows doing their winter duties with a vengeance. In Overland Park
Kansas where I work, and Lee's Summit Missouri where I live (about 25
miles distance) I see little difference in the ferocity of snow plowing
as what must happen here in Virginia. While there are some rocks and
pebbles thrown from snow plows onto sidewalks in Kansas and Missouri,
they litter the sidewalks here in Virginia. One would actually be
better off, in some places, to run in the street for comfort sake
(unless of course one disdains the discomfort of being hit by a car.)

Ah, for Springtime to throw back the covering of Winter's blast! Once
areas such as Reston (and the Kansas City area for that matter) get
some good frog-strangling rains that will wash everything down, it is
still like playing "dodge ball" (dodging the ball of the foot, of
course) from rocks and debris. What helps even more, is when the mowers
start mowing, cause when they go over the sidewalks they throw all that
loose debris elsewhere.

BR