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  • Snowplow vs. Plastic Fence

    We spotted this on our regular walk around the block:

    Plastic fence vs snow
    Plastic fence vs snow

    The horizontal rails have a latching ramp that’s good enough in most circumstances:

    Plastic fence - rail latch detail
    Plastic fence – rail latch detail

    Perhaps those latches released as designed under an overload. The snowplow would have been traveling toward us on that side of the road and pushed the snow against the fence panels hard enough to dislodge the rail latches from their sockets.

    I suppose they can zip the fence panels back in place, one by one, without rebuilding the whole affair.