Resident shovels their car out of the snow after a big storm, neighbor yells at them to stop tossing snow into her ‘yard’: ‘“Come on lady be realistic”’

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Feb 10, 2026 10:00 AM EST

When snowstorms hit a town hard, the only way out is, quite literally, through.

"Through" by way of shoveling, of course. A massive snowstorm-cold front hybrid weather system hit a good portion of the United States a couple of weeks ago, leaving several feet of snow and many angry car owners in its wake. What was left behind were several foot-tall snow drifts, ice-covered windshields, and neighbors turning on one another. This next story showcases what happens when a condo resident tries to dig their car out of the snow before a cold front hits in D.C., but their neighbor thinks she owns the land where they're tossing the snow. Nope, ma'am, that's not your property. And, contrary to what the neighbor might think, snow melts.

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  • Man uses a tool to remove snow from his vehicle.
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    A man uses a tool to remove snow from his vehicle.

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  • "AITA - Removing snow from around my car after big storm"

    This past week we got a big snowstorm on the east coast, which halfway through switched to sleet and finished off with rain.
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  • It created a thick ice sheet on top of about 6-8 inches of snow. I live in DC, the city has been a mess since Sunday.
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  • The resident goes on to explain that D.C.'s response effort is slowed because of just how much snow actually piled onto the city in such a short period of time, paired with below-freezing temperatures that quickly turned that snow into ice. Residential streets, unfortunately, are not the most integral streets for city employees to plow, so residents must take their vehicles' futures into their own hands. That's exactly what the resident decides to do, but their neighbor thinks that they get a say in where the leftover snow goes.

  • Snow everywhere and plowing on my street is not the top priority. By Tuesday the got to my street, parking is all on the street, so every car in buried by this snow with a thick ice sheet on top.
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  • Which I can stand on without breaking through. Wednesday, it gets sunny, the temp is about 25 by noon.
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  • So I take my opportunity to begin shoveling out my car. The ice is requiring us to chop the top layer of ice with a metal garden shovel to break it up.
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  • Now, the entire space between the curb and the sidewalk is covered in a 2 foot pile of hard snow.
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  • The grassy area beside the apartment building is melting pretty well and only has small chunks from when a crew removed the ice from the sidewalk.
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  • Not wanting to spill the snow and ice onto the sidewalk or build up a greater snow pile next to cars parked on the street, begin removing the snow from around my car and placing it in the grassy area next to the building.
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  • 3 hours in I am almost done removing the snow from around my car and the portion of the road the city isn't plowing.
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  • Covered in sweat, I feel pretty proud of chopping through all that ice and shovel to clear roadway.
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  • Mind you this is the rule in DC, clear your sidewalks and around your cars after a snowstorm.
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  • They explicitly state in the space between the sidewalk and curb or yard space. While removing the last of the snow from behind my car, a woman that lives in an apartment with a balcony above about 6 feet above the buildings grassy area comes out and begins screaming at me.
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  • "Excuse me, did you do this? What do you think you are doing? This is my yard!" I say where else can I put it the curb area is already too high.
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  • She responds "that pile of snow is going to take days, weeks, months, years to melt!!!" Yes she said years.
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  • Unfortunately, the snow pile being too high is not the resident's problem. The neighbor is under the false impression that she owns the grassy area when the condo actually owns it. Aside from that fact, the neighbor explicitly mentions how that area gets the most amount of sun, therefore, giving the snow its best chance at a quick melt. Some people simply don't want to accept when they've blown something out of proportion.

  • I say "come on lady be realistic" She demands I remove the snow, still screaming at the top of her lungs and creating a scene.
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  • Going on about her yard and how would I like it if I dumped snow in your yard.
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  • I'm tired from shoveling this heavy snow for three hours, and I say "I get your point, I'll move it." She was being so ridiculous, I knew she wouldn't listen to anything I said.
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  • So I just tired de- escalate to get back in her apartment and stop screaming. I was following city rules for snow removal.
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  • The grassy area next to the apartment building gets direct sunlight nearly all day. It's an apartment building, not a condo association, she doesn't own the grassy area.
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  • A storm like this hasn't come through DC in 20+ years, everyone is struggling to dig out with this much ice.
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  • But this lady screams at me, when I'm just trying to dig out my car and make my street more passable.
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  • The plows won't get any closer to the cars parks on the street. Am I the Ah_le?
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