Anyone else spend the day shoveling?

[hrmjustin]

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. What is that?

I kid, I kid

[hrmjustin]

3. Hey Nadin! What is the temp in SD?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. 73 when I went to the store to pay for blinds

On the down side, the drought is deepening, and we have a thick fog warning

[hrmjustin]

6. 11F here in Brooklyn.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. I know, some people will die

From this.

But hey, look on the bright side, no global warming, just go over to fox. The good news is all over

[hrmjustin]

16. I think 10-20 have died due to the storm.

Fox stinks.

[EvilAL]

45. We get 2 feet of snow and they don't even close the stores..

[hrmjustin]

47. Some places are used to it.

[petronius]

2. Not the whole day, but I did a bit - sort of a novel experience

for this Californian! Do you East Coast folks do this all the time, seriously?

[hrmjustin]

5. The people who get lake effect snows have it worse.

[MuseRider]

7. Yes :-) but not snow!

Cleaned the barn out really well. It counts I suppose

[hrmjustin]

8. Yes it does count.

[MuseRider]

11. Tomorrow it will be snow.

We have some now but are getting more tomorrow, not a lot but enough to need to shovel.

[onehandle]

9. 15 minutes at most. 7 or 8 inches, but it was nearly pure powder.

So it was easy.

[hrmjustin]

10. Yeah the powder snow helped but there is a lot of ice here now.

[kwassa]

12. More de-icing than shoveling, in terms of time.

Here in Maryland, the beginning snow fell on above-freezing roads and cars, which later froze as temps dropped, leaving a layer of ice on everything. Had to heat up the cars just to get the thick layer of ice off.

It also made clean shoveling impossible. We got about 4 inches of powdery snow on top of the ice. Not much compared to many, but many things refroze tonight. Supposed to go down to 11 tonight.

[hrmjustin]

13. I hate when it turns to ice.

Spent hours today chopping ice.

[Locut0s]

15. You can't shovel rain ;) nt.

[hrmjustin]

17. Wish we had rain.

[Locut0s]

18. 6+ months of it while rarely seeing the sun?...

Wish we had snow.

[hrmjustin]

19. Wow, where in Canada?

[Locut0s]

20. Vancouver. Our summers are wonderful...

But our winters are 6 to 8 months of straight overcast with lots and lots of rain. Depressing.

[hrmjustin]

21. Sounds horrible.

[Locut0s]

31. Yeah it sort of it lol...

This city is a jewel though! At least in the summer.

[MerryBlooms]

22. Not today, but on the 1st

my husband shoveled 4 times to keep up. I made sure there was hot coffee, hot chocolate and then a big hot pot of black eyed peas/onion/peppers/andouille sausage and cornbread out of the oven. We have over 15 inches of snow on the ground and now more sub zero temps on the way with possible -50 wind chill for Monday.

[hrmjustin]

23. Lake effects?

[MerryBlooms]

24. Yes, we had lake effect snow after the

initial storm.
We're in NE Illinois, close to the WI/IL border.

Of course there are warming centers open in the city, but I was talking to a friend tonight in MI and they are expecting pretty much the same temps. She said there are only two warming centers open in Detroit and one is for women/children only. If that's correct, we can expect the death toll to rise. I think that's criminal.

[In_The_Wind]

25. Mr Hooters Racing did all of our shoveling.

[hrmjustin]

26. How much snow did you get?

[In_The_Wind]

42. My guess is about 8 inches.

I just got back from a drive to the bank.

The NYS Thruway is clear and dry. Side roads are in good shape also.

[hrmjustin]

43. Things are clear here in the city.

[In_The_Wind]

44. Excellent!

[handmade34]

27. ...

my 200 ft driveway with help from this:

[hrmjustin]

28. That must make it easier.

[femmocrat]

29. No... I just let the dogs plow through and I walk in their path.

Corgis are great little snow plows. LOL

[hrmjustin]

32. I bet they love the snow.

[uppityperson]

30. Got an article for you, disposing of "four billion tons of white bullshit" by puff the magic dragon

http://fmobserver.com/fargo-man-arrested-for-clearing-snow-with-flamethrower/#

Local resident Todd Fox has been detained for “reckless endangerment” and “illegal use of high-powered fire-breathing weaponry” for attacking snow with his flamethrower. Fox reportedly became so fed up with the week-long blowing snow epidemic in his area that he decided to KILL IT WITH FIRE.

The neighborhood was treated with quite a show last night as Fox unleashed an inferno upon the mountainous snow palace that was his front yard. Neighbors to his immediate right and left noticed a bright orange cloud and could hear what they thought was “puff the magic dragon spewing mayhem all over hell,” which prompted one of them to notify police.

Fox stated that he was simply “fed up with battling the elements” and that he did not possess the willpower necessary to move “four billion tons of white bull shit.”

Police say that Fox surrendered his efforts immediately upon their arrival and that his front yard “looked like a hydrogen bomb had gone off.” They think he was just happy to be done with snow removal, even if it did mean a trip to jail.

[hrmjustin]

33. omg!

[irisblue]

34. I understand....

[DebJ]

37. Maybe he shouldn't be living in Fargo. n/t

[Skittles]

35. you want I should kick your shoveling ass, hrmjustin?

I WILL MAKE YOU CHANGE MY KITTY LITTER; yes INDEED

[hrmjustin]

39. Lmfao!

[RebelOne]

36. Nope. It's in the 20s here in North Georgia.

We never get enough snow to shovel. There is never much accumulation. Only those who live in the mountain counties have to shovel snow.

[hrmjustin]

40. It is up to 20F in nyc.

It is a heat wave.

[RebelOne]

49. Well, the 20-degree heat wave will be breaking on Tuesday.

It will be 9 degrees in my area and minus-6 in the mountain counties.

[hrmjustin]

50. it is supposed to be 3F on Tuesday night.

[B Calm]

38. I dug out on Thursday. Looks like I'll be doing it again

tomorrow. Indiana can get an additional 8 to 12 inches starting late tonight.

[hrmjustin]

41. We are going to get rain.

[bluedigger]

46. Haven't had much snow since the beginning of December.

There are still patches of it on the other (shady) side of the street, but my yard is bare. Lots of winter yet - we'll get our share when all is said and done.

[hrmjustin]

48. We got like 15 to 20 inches for the season.

[ConcernedCanuk]

51. Not too much

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Just enough to get to my "helper".



Then worked him for 3 hours today - I got a long laneway, 3 buildings to clear around,

and I'm fussy - keep moving the banks back so if I get some BIG storms back to back,

my laneway and driveways don't dwindle to almost impassable with banks so high ya can't see over.

Pic below shows less than a 10th of what I plow.

Shoveling is pretty much a no can do in the boonies where I live.



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