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In The Middle of a Snowstorm, The Mailman Still Delivered Our Mail

How this epiphany is making me a better neighbor

Ryan Fan
Corporate Underbelly
7 min readJan 11, 2025

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This last week, we have had several inches of snow. Most government buildings and all schools in my state of Maryland and in nearby Washington D.C. were closed Monday and Tuesday.

In the mid-Atlantic, we just got hit by a huge winter storm. This winter storm on the East Coast is nothing compared to the wildfires in Los Angeles that have killed 11 people as of the writing of this article, but this snowstorm across the Midwest and mid-Atlantic has killed four people and injured dozens more as well.

As a special education teacher, in the midst of this snowstorm, I didn’t have to work for two days, and most operations in my local suburb and in Baltimore, the city I live right next to, were postponed.

My home has a parking pad in the back and an alley that is disconnected from the front of the house. The front of the house connects to the main road through a walkway and steps.

During the storm, I shoveled part of the alley behind our house. I didn’t do the most thorough job, but there is an incline when leaving the alley that makes it very slippery for cars that don’t have all-wheel drive. Last year, in a snowstorm of half the magnitude, several cars of my…

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Ryan Fan
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Written by Ryan Fan

Believer, Baltimore City IEP Chair, and 2:35 marathon runner. Diehard fan of “The Wire.”

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