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Things I saw out my living room window today:

- Normal snowplows.

- Miniature tanks (srsly: four axles and treads) to plow snow off sidewalks.

- At least a dozen trucks filled with snow.

- A bizarre snow-removal convoy: (a) one truck to hold the snow, (b) a vacuum truck that sucks the snow in front of it and sprays it up into the (a) truck alongside it, (c) two vaguely insectoid devices with brushes or something in their bellies. (a) drives slightly faster than (b), filling itself with snow from front to back. The (c)s follow.

- Some idiot who mistook a just-cleared-by-tank sidewalk for the street. They got about 20 feet down before they realized their mistake, and spun their wheels frantically trying to back up, which they eventually managed and then had to get the doorman to clear a hole in the wall of snow. Right after he started, a normal snowplow appeared and dealt with the situation, with the idiot making repeated false starts in between snowplow attack runs.

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