After being trapped in the house for a week, I think many of us are just chock-full of suggestions for how to better prepare for the next snow/ice storm.  Bob writes in with a request…

I would like a dedicated thread for suggestions to the City of Decatur…on what they might do to prepare for the next snow storm. I think more could be done without costing an arm and a leg.

I’m always up for a constructive exercise that aims at bettering ourselves and the community.  (Lord, that sounded a bit sappy.  Even for me.)  But I’d like to expand it beyond just suggestions for the city, and also open up the virtual floor to suggestions for neighborhood groups and each other.  For example, how can we encourage more residents to shovel sidewalks after a storm?  Perhaps we could create shovel-exchange centers in neighborhoods and folks could leave their ID and take a shovel for an hour or two?

I dunno.  Just thinking out-loud.