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It snowed about twelve inches in the Boston-area. Since we don’t have a garage, or indeed off street parking, I had to shovel out the car. Especially the snow that gathers under the car since it turns to ice and that can be very unpleasant to get caught sitting on when you are in a hurry to get out.
All this shoveling gave me that idea that if I put a fence, preferably one without any holes, around the car before it snows, then I wouldn’t need to shovel under the car or move the car to get at the snow.
Additionally, since we have no off street parking, we tend to pile up the snow at every possible location. As the piles grow bigger, snow rolls down covering over the area you just cleared. Another useful product would be a flexible barrier, such as with some compost fences, that you could put up at the border of one of these piles and would keep the snow in. It would need to dissolve within a day in snow, after the snow froze in place.
