Dear HRM

Dear whichever one of you asshats is in charge of scheduling dumptracks and ice plows,

Just a quick note to let you know that midnight is NOT the ideal time to send heavy duty equipment to forcefully scrape months-old ice stores from the edges of our street. Are city employees and planners all nocturnal vampires? If so, that's really neat, but I'd just like to remind you that most of the general public is not. Many of us prefer to sleep during the night hours.

I am sure there is a completely logical reason for needing to remove the ice. In fact, I do applaud the actual idea, just not the execution. I mean, sure...a wider street and clear drainage is certainly appealing...however, I'm pretty sure this could have been done during normal working hours when most people are generally awake anyway. There was no time-sensitive safety issue that I'm aware of so keeping our entire neighborhood awake for hours and hours seems just plain ridiculous to me. If your team is running behind schedule, don't try to make it up by keeping an entire subdivision awake.

If I were to go outside at midnight and start jackhammering my driveway, you can bet your buttons that my neighbors would complain and I'd receive some sort of fine from the city for breaking a noise by-law or some such thing. So why is it OK for a city team to come and make 10 times that amount of noise? It isn't. But you did it anyway.

It's not like Beechville is a community of all-night business or industrial traffic or any other type of situation that might work with this late night work....we are a community of 400 private residences and that is all.

Open your eyes and have a look around the next time you plan one of these midnight events. May your brain prevail and remind you that people need sleep. Show some respect.

Regards,


Sleepless in Beechville