I pay a plow guy to clear the driveway & then i shovel the sections he can’t get to, which is more than i should have to since he does a terrible job! Gee, I wonder why i hate winter.
@zinimusprime I wish it were that simple, but it’s been a challenge to find dependable contractors here in the boonies, especially at a rate that’s reasonable. I get a relatively decent group rate with a few of my neighbors, so i kinda have to suck it up. But it doesn’t make me hate winter any less!
Until Snowpocalypse, we never really had anything worth clearing. Then, it just kept coming down most days. We’ve had the occasional ice storm that lasted a couple of days (which is a bit harder to get off the ground) but otherwise that’s been the only time we’d really have wanted to break out clearing equipment since a few storms in the 80s. We mostly just wait out the bigger storms.
I did need to drive in deep snow once. I was up elk hunting and woke one morning to about 6” of snow. But as I drove to higher elevations it got much deeper and my tires were just pushing it ahead. I turned around and came downhill a bit, parked and went on foot. It was good to learn the limits of my truck without having an emergency and while having friends nearby that could rescue me.
Living in North Dakota, it’s more like all of the above…
We get everything from dusting (1/2" to 1") of snow,
to bigger snows which can be a foot or more. You must be prepared if you live up in this country! Almost everyone has at least a small snowblower & depending on how large your area that needs to get cleaned up is, bigger snowblowers, tractors, push-plows on pickups, payloaders w/ buckets, then big maintainers, and plow trucks are in play, which typically are city/county/state owned. Believe you me, if it wasn’t for a combination of all of the above, life would be pretty tough in flyover country!!
My strategy was to move somewhere that gets less snow. The rare times we get snow, either it melts on contact, or it’s enough that everything’s shut down so I can’t go anywhere anyway.
@delecti Flakes descending from the sky at 11AM means that rush hour starts at Noon; if the snow is serious, having a third-floor view of a freeway is priceless.
Place straw close to mirror and inhale.
No snow here where I live in Florida.
What is this snow of which you speak???
I wait.
Wait for the sun to melt it the next day.
Back blade on the big ol’ tractor. I guess that’s probably considered a plow. But mostly wait for it to melt.
Being retired, I look out the window and then go back to bed until the snow melts.
I’ve never needed to.
I live where I don’t need to clear snow, if there is any. In Houston, a snowy morning is a rare and very quiet morning.
I wish this existed!
I pay a plow guy to clear the driveway & then i shovel the sections he can’t get to, which is more than i should have to since he does a terrible job! Gee, I wonder why i hate winter.
@ircon96 maybe get a new plow guy?
@zinimusprime I wish it were that simple, but it’s been a challenge to find dependable contractors here in the boonies, especially at a rate that’s reasonable. I get a relatively decent group rate with a few of my neighbors, so i kinda have to suck it up. But it doesn’t make me hate winter any less!
@ircon96 Time to get lots of those boundary reflectors / markers!
@zinimusprime If only they knew what those were for! <sigh>
If “wait until Spring” isn’t an option, then call up …
/giphy Mr Plow
(of course, I’m way to cheap to hire anyone to do it)
It took me three years to insist my husband get a snow blower. Now he hopes for snow. Loves using it.
Until Snowpocalypse, we never really had anything worth clearing. Then, it just kept coming down most days. We’ve had the occasional ice storm that lasted a couple of days (which is a bit harder to get off the ground) but otherwise that’s been the only time we’d really have wanted to break out clearing equipment since a few storms in the 80s. We mostly just wait out the bigger storms.
I did need to drive in deep snow once. I was up elk hunting and woke one morning to about 6” of snow. But as I drove to higher elevations it got much deeper and my tires were just pushing it ahead. I turned around and came downhill a bit, parked and went on foot. It was good to learn the limits of my truck without having an emergency and while having friends nearby that could rescue me.
Move to AZ MoFos!!!
@smkarizona Flagstaff. Prescott.
@smkarizona You were saying?
@smkarizona @werehatrack Right?
I moved to a region that only gets snow when Hell literally freezes over. (I live in a suburb of the Hell metroplex)
@sjk3 Miami-Hollywood-FtLauderdale? Or the Texas Metroplex? (You have my sympathies either way.)
@sjk3 @werehatrack Or Michigan? Which is ironic because I would think that it freezes pretty often.
We have a snow thrower, but it’s only effective when there’s enough snow but not too much snow. So mostly we shovel.
Living in North Dakota, it’s more like all of the above…
We get everything from dusting (1/2" to 1") of snow,
to bigger snows which can be a foot or more. You must be prepared if you live up in this country! Almost everyone has at least a small snowblower & depending on how large your area that needs to get cleaned up is, bigger snowblowers, tractors, push-plows on pickups, payloaders w/ buckets, then big maintainers, and plow trucks are in play, which typically are city/county/state owned. Believe you me, if it wasn’t for a combination of all of the above, life would be pretty tough in flyover country!!
My strategy was to move somewhere that gets less snow. The rare times we get snow, either it melts on contact, or it’s enough that everything’s shut down so I can’t go anywhere anyway.
@delecti Flakes descending from the sky at 11AM means that rush hour starts at Noon; if the snow is serious, having a third-floor view of a freeway is priceless.
I pee on it
Snow?
LOL!!!
Wait it out (if it even sticks)
I’d like to try the giant blow torch approach instead of the shovel.