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salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I work in municipal government, and I have very strong feeling about leaf blowers.

  All these assholes blowing all the great fertilizing trulimmings and dirt off their lawn and into the street to clog up the storm drains.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My father, and mother after he died, spent 40 fucking years raking the leaves from under the shrubs and throwing them away. Our house was surrounded by lush bushes, entire house, entire back yard. Took little me and dad 4 hard hours to trim all that.

    Got back from taking botany related classes in college. Tried to explain that bagging the lawn clippings and raking the leaves would kill everything. She wouldn’t hear it.

    Anyway, dad’s dead, mom’s dead, entire fucking yard is dead. Lost it all but some barely hagin’ in there grass. It’s a fucking desert.

    Old lady on the corner religiously rakes and burns her leaves, goes after it like it’s her fucking job. We got a max of 2" of topsoil in NW Florida, max. Her entire lot is nearly all sand.

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  • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bro if ur using a leaf blower to remove leaves from your lawn and not from your driveway you gotta be extra special

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    • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A lot of people love their lawn toys (and hate municipal workers and well draining streets I guess).

      I lived in Massachusetts for a while and the city I lived in directed people to blow/rake their leaves into the road so a giant vacuum truck could collect them.

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      • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah that’s true. There are a ton of arbitrary defined and applied lawn laws in the states. The “no weeds” ones are always funny too, bc more often then not the grass you imported from Asia is more a weed than the native flowers

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They don’t want the leaves covering up the unnaturally green grass, and if they clog up the storm system that’s someone downhill’s problem.

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