On 1/28/2015 5:00 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:32:27 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

It also gets to a point where there's no place
for the snow to go with your plow angled. You are trying to push it into
a 4' pile of previously plowed snow. Finally had to resort to the John
Deere tractor. I have piles of snow that are 8-9 feet high on the sides
of the driveway where we park.

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I grew up in a lake effect snow belt region of upstate NY and that
sort of thing was common place. My old home town averages over 300
inches of snow per year. By mid winter the city would be using pay
loaders to put the snow in dump trucks so they could haul it away. The
snow banks along the streets were so high that people would put red
flags on their car antennas so that people could see them coming at
intersections.

We had one storm when I was a kid that left a snow drift in the back
yard as high as the garage roof. My brother and I spent the better
part of an afternoon digging a snow cave in the drift since the
schools were closed and there wasn't much else to do. Towards the end
we had a good sized cave and then we ran into something hard in the
snow at the bottom. When we dug further it turned out to be the top
of the picket fence.



I once spent a week on a day trip to Rochester, NY. Crazy place for snow.

I guess you know you are getting old when your daughter sends her two,
strapping teenaged boys over to the house to shovel walkways and steps.
They also shoveled paths for the dogs in the back yard. Look like
WWII bunkers. Sam Adams and Fudge are big dogs but look funny as hell
following the paths and all you can see are their tails. Big adventure
for them.