<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">That said, it happened to us too, and it's extremely disheartening. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">We are on a corner lot, and our experience with the sidewalks in front of our house was entirely different from the experience to the side of our house. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">The sidewalk in front of our house has a strip (for planting trees) between the sidewalk and the street. The snow from the plows covered some of this, but it paled in comparison to the completely covered sidewalk (which has no such strip; that sidewalk is adjacent to the street) to the side of our house. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">We tried to stay on top of shoveling during the storm, but it was completely covered by the time we emerged Sunday morning. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">We did have to "get over it", but it literally took us hours to do it because of the ice, etc. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I am so grateful to our amazing public works department and I know they have done an amazing job getting our community back on our feet. I just wish I knew what to do about this, because like Bob, we were completely discouraged to see that our hard work was for nothing. AND we could get a citation even though we had done our due diligence to try to keep the sidewalk clear. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">-Sarah</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="410" style="font-size:13.6px;width:5.7in;border-collapse:collapse;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><tbody><tr style="height:26.5pt"><td width="96" style="width:95.55pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><p><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B_WsXUJf7Td7clpWbmhXemRkRVk&revid=0B_WsXUJf7Td7bU5DYW9aaDBWaTJWdGI0bUx6SnFYeFFxRG1RPQ"><br></p></td><td width="315" style="width:314.85pt;padding:0in 5.4pt;height:26.5pt"><p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(69,129,142)">Sarah Wayland, Ph.D. | <a href="http://www.guidingexceptionalparents.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.GuidingExceptionalParents.com</span></a><br>Supporting students with learning differences & their families</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-size:13.6px;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(69,129,142)">UPCOMING WORKSHOPS</span></b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(69,129,142)"> </span></i><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:13.6px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(49,132,155)"><a href="http://raisingyourchallengingchild.com/2016Spring-DC-OxygenMask.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(49,132,155)">First Put On Your Own Oxygen Mask</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(103,78,167)"> – T</span></i><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(83,82,226)">uesday evenings starting April 26th in Washington DC</span></i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(83,82,226)"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p style="font-size:13.6px;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(49,132,155)"><a href="http://guidingexceptionalparents.com/Presentations.html#SocialSkills" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(49,132,155)">Workshops for Parents of Kids Who Struggle Socially</span></a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(103,78,167)"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