If you have a kerbside drain outside your house...

[GrouachMacbeth]

If you have a kerbside drain outside your house, and it gets blocked, or leaves accumulate around d it, do you clear it as much as you can or do you leave it - it's the councils job and I'm too pretty to clean drains.

Obviously I'm not talking about ridding and plunging a blockade deep in a drain, but maybe poking with a broom handle.

YABU - it's to councils job, I'm too pretty clean a drain.
YANBU - of course I'll try to clear the drain as much as I can, I understand councils are cash strapped.

When we have really heavy rain like we’ve had over the last few days the whole street are out checking all the drains, these houses badly flooded about 20 years ago (before we bought ours) and most people had to move out for months - now every time it rains heavily anyone who’s at home goes out and checks all the drains, pokes long things down there to encourage the water to flow away and anyone with small kids stays in and phones the council for sandbags!