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Continue ReadingAlong with snowy winters in Minneapolis, along comes parking restrictions and hazardous road conditions. To help you stay ahead of city plow trucks and congested traffic throughout the Twin Cities we would like to share with you some apps you can download to your phone.
The Minneapolis Snow Emergency App can help you avoid the costs and hassles of a ticket and tow during a snow emergency. This app has recently been updated and will tell you when a snow emergency has been declared and when and where you can and cannot park your car.
You can download the app for android here, and for apple here.
If you don’t already have the Google Maps App downloaded on your phone, you may want to consider downloading it. The Google Maps App will let you know about congested traffic and potential crashes on the roadways. Open the app before heading out for work, if you see red lines on roadways that means traffic is backed up and you may want to consider taking a different route to work.
You can download the app for android here, and for apple here.
Whether you love the snow or hate it, the SnowCast App will tell you exactly how much snow to expect over the next 48 hours. The cool thing about his app is that you will be able to determine how much snow is going to fall on the south side of the cities or the north side. This will allow you to determine where the best snow is for sledding or whether you should just stay inside by the fire.
Right now this app is only available for Apple products and can be downloaded here.
We hope these apps will help you save time and money as well as help you find or avoid the snow when possible. Do you know of any other great apps we should have during the winter? If so, please tell us about them in the comments section below.
Fall is almost here and that means cool temperatures, sweaters, leaves changing colors and Thanksgiving. All in all, fall is the best time of they year, except when it comes to yard work!
For those of you with mature trees in your lawn, you know those leaves are about to fall and that means countless hours of yardwork picking up leaves.
So, what are some of the best ways to efficiently pick up the leaves in your lawn? Lucky for you, we have years of experience. Here are some of the tricks we have learned over the years.
For most of us in Minnesota, we stop mowing our lawns mid to late October. However, there are still leaves on the trees that haven’t fallen yet.
In order to avoid an over abundant pile of leaves in your lawn, consider raising the height on your lawn mower to either bag or mulch leaves. Doing this every other week will help reduce the overall workload of picking up all the leaves at once.
If you like doing things the old fashioned way, with a hand rake, rake the leaves onto a tarp. This makes it easy to drag the leaves around to make a big pile that can later be dumped into a container. Or better yet, drag the leaves to the curb and hire a company to come suck them up.
At Peter Doran Lawn & Landscaping we use our commercial lawn mowers and equip them with a Protero leaf vacuum. This allows us to make quick work of any yard, no matter how many leaves are on the ground!
Our lawn mowers mulches the leaves and dispenses them into a collection container. From there, we empty the containers near the curb where our big leaf suction truck comes by and sucks them up.
We can handle any size yard and typically work until the snow falls. If you are in need of a reliable company to come take care of the leaves in your lawn this fall, contact us and we will get you on the schedule.