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My Portland neighbors are organizing their snow.

There is a surprising enthusiasm with the first snowfall. Neighbors with gas-powered snowblowers helping neighbors avoiding heart attacks. Mainers happily sprinkling sand, salt, and often a bright blue salty substance across their newly shoveled walks. Drivers scraping off snow and ice from their cold cars that need moving because of Portland's citywide parking ban - a chaotic decree banning all public streets of parked cars. The hungry mass of gruff snow plowers stand by with warmed trucks and a big thermos of Dunkin Donuts® coffee.

Fluffy frozen water - a few degrees warmer and it would find its own way of disposing itself.