Re: I am a flesh\'n\'blood snowblower.
I grew up in northern Wisconsin and shovelled out of any number of two and three footers growing up
last winter, the forecasters were calling for big snow for the Front Range and I stupidly told the wife not to worry about leaving our '83 Suby at the bottom of the drive since it has compound low and since the forecasters had been crying wolf about snow for the whole winter
well, we got 87.5" of snow out of that storm over two days
the first morning I woke up at 6 and there was already about 20 inches on the ground--it was coming down at maybe 3" an hour!
I started shovelling--worked for about 7 hours and carved a 6 foot-wide swath up our little over 300 foot driveway (dirt road) by the time I got done, there was almost four feet on the ground--got the Suby to the top next to the road
didn't make much diff as it turns out since it took the county almost a week to get the road done (with front loaders)
people spent more time fixing their snowblowers than blowing ...
by the next day you could barely tell I shovelled ...
here's a pic of our local watering hole
I shovelled paths for essential services and a dog run and then started reducing the snowload on my in-laws nearly flat roof (tons of snow) a number of local structures collapsed under the weight ... towards the end I ran out of places to put the snow
I was sore for two weeks, but it actually was great because we really needed the moisture
hideo