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How to handle moving and utility setups during a snowstorm

Freezing ground and severe snowstorms prevent essential utility installations like Wi-Fi and delay heavy furniture deliveries. These winter hazards force people to manage slippery conditions while moving boxes, pay extra for constant property plowing, and deal with uninstalled appliances that make the new home immediately unlivable.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Using mobile hotspots for internet
  2. 2
    Hiring neighborhood kids or services to plow snow
  3. 3
    Moving in stages over several months
  4. 4
    Separating urgent tasks from non-urgent ones to reduce stress

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

“I'm losing my mind, I can't get wifi installed since the ground is frozen. All my furniture deliveries are delayed due to constant snowstorms. I'm constantly having to shovel and pay for plowing for two properties. Slippery conditions making moving heavy objects and boxes an absolute nightmare. I've had like 5 different mental breakdowns, it's horrible.”source ↗

Aware-Garlic-704 · r/moving · 34 upvotes

“I'm getting my house ready to sell and it is a nightmare to do it in the first snowy winter we have had in years. Can't get the trees trimmed, can't move things into storage, and just looking out the window in despair.”source ↗

InsertCleverName652 · r/moving · 2 upvotes

“We moved in and our washer isn't working because the damn builder didn't hook it up properly. We still don't have wifi so I've been having to use a hotspot which is not great. Ughhhh the problems just feel like they're never ending!”source ↗

Aware-Garlic-704 · r/moving · 1 upvotes

Where this came up

r/movinghomeownershipmovingstress

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