Recently, I saw something pretty cool related to snow removal in Ames. We live on a cul-de-sac with a curbed area in the middle. I was working at home and had a view out to the street. When the snow plow comes through, it pushes snow up the street and into the middle of the cul-de-sac. However, before pushing a new batch of snow onto the pile, he got out and looked at the existing pile. Local kids had been digging tunnels and having fun with the pile for a few days prior. Apparently, he made sure that there were no kids still there before he pushed another big bunch of snow onto the pile. We have a bunch of homeschool kids on the street so it is conceivable that they would be playing in their snow fort even during normal school hours. Kudos to the Ames snow plow driver who made the extra effort to be protect our kids.