No that isn’t a football score, it’s a wintertime annual event when it snows – and the score for this 3 mile stretch of road. Here in Lisbon Falls, Maine several of the snow storms this winter have been the type mixed with rain, resulting in some slush galore. Gadzooks when that freezes, which it has. And watch out for sure when the snow plow goes by on a fast clearing run. A clearing run will throw the snow from the street into the shoulders and way beyond. The velocity of the flying snow will knock out just about anything, especially these country mailboxes – metal, plastic, it doesn’t matter. So this here mailbox took a flight into the shrubs leaving just the post – the board the box itself was mounted to was split in two. As any Mainer would do, I screwed the two pieces back to the post with 4 inch decking screws. But in true Maine fashion I duct taped the darn box a few times around back to the boards. If I could have somehow put a tarp into this fix, I’d be a real redneck for sure. At least the red tape looks kind of like reflectors. The bottom hinged door almost didn’t make the repair, but some red duct tape put there makes it somewhat usable. There are in reality a few resilient mailboxes back up the ridge, and I can only imagine what the plow drivers have in their thoughts with an approaching snowstorm just a few days away. Note the metal post about 30 feet further down the road: It used to have a 3 x 5 aluminum MDOT reflector – it’s gone.
