Snow blows

[captpackrat]

The worst thing about snow isn't getting stuck at home, unable to drive anywhere. It isn't having to carry water and food all the way out to the barn instead of the animals coming to us. It isn't the dogs going outside and coming back soaking wet. No, the worst part about snow is having to shovel the steps and the deck.

There was much too much snow to have bothered with salt (and I couldn't find the stuff, anyway), so the bottom layer of the snow ended up melting and refreezing. Shoveling snow isn't that bad, breaking up sheets of ice is the real pain.

I managed to find the salt bucket; someone had moved it to the garage and didn't tell me. They also didn't seal it properly, so the whole top layer was one solid mass. It took a lot of pounding with a screwdriver to break it into semi-usable chunks.

One of the neighbors plowed our driveway this morning. Unfortunately, the front gate was closed, so he stopped there and turned around. Now there's a big mound of snow in front of the gate and the remaining 200 or so feet of driveway inside the gate still has 1-2 feet of snow. At least now the UPS truck can pull up to the gate.

No chance in hell of getting my car out of the garage for at least a week. With super-wide, nearly worn-out ultra-high-performance tires and no Positraction, I'd get stuck within a few feet if I tried to pull out.

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[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

...the remaining 200 or so feet of driveway inside the gate still has 1-2 feet of snow.

I don't think any car would do well in that. My Voyager was pretty good in the snow. It was my first front-wheel drive vehicle. My old Mark VII, on the other paw, would get stuck on the lawn if the grass was wet.

So, how're y'all getting around in this?

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

My roommate has a 4x4 pickup. He parked it down at the end of the driveway near the road just in case the storm was as bad as predicted.