Enough with the snow already

**Selkie** · 02-10-2010, 03:24 AM

Originally Posted by Catriona

That's why I said older, not OLD.

But I could be really bad at judging the age of chubby bald old men. They could be older. I just haven't asked

And if someone decides to shovel your walk because they think you might be older - I think you should sit back & let them

.

Your day will come (age is the great leveler).

DH and I---both of us closer to 50 than 30---helped a younger neighbor shovel out her minivan yesterday afternoon. She was desperate to get out of the house and escape her two sons!!

DH and I are native Pennsylvanians and are strong, efficient shovelers. We enjoy the physical labor. DH has an ice chipper that works like a champ---now all our neighbors want one!

**tulip** · 02-10-2010, 04:12 AM

They say we're only supposed to get 1-2 inches today in Richmond, but in the past hour my car has gone from grey to all white with about 2 inches already. And it's snowing so hard that I can barely see the house across the street!

**7rider** · 02-10-2010, 05:17 AM

Originally Posted by mickchick

DH and I are native Pennsylvanians and are strong, efficient shovelers. We enjoy the physical labor. DH has an ice chipper that works like a champ---now all our neighbors want one!

Sounds like us (DH is pushing the big five oh this year..shhhh...don't know if you noticed that AARP mailing in the picture of our mortar and pestle to grind coffee a few posts back).

DH is a native New Yorker, I'm from Connecticut. We both seem to have acquired a rep in our neighborhood as the crazy shovelers...Out there several times during a storm, not content until the driveway is bare pavement. Our neighbors (Texans, Columbia, India, and who knows where else) are content to brush off snow and drive over the piles, leaving the driveway(s) uncleared and ultimately, icy and treacherous. We have new neighbors from New Jersey who seem to be kindred spirits....at least in snow removal. Our friend John (a native of HI) has a son in college in Colorado. The son has learned the hard way the necessity of adequate shoveling after a storm this year!

**owlice** · 02-10-2010, 05:37 AM

Maybe next time he needs to pee, he'll use the litter box....

**HillSlugger** · 02-10-2010, 05:57 AM

The last time I looked we were up to 6.5" of new snow.

7, where in NY is Tom from?

**Biciclista** · 02-10-2010, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by owlice

Maybe next time he needs to pee, he'll use the litter box....

oh POOR KITTY!

and YES! SEND SNOW to SEATTLE ! PLEASE!

**pfunk12** · 02-10-2010, 06:47 AM

You haven't heard from me at all since the weekend storm and I have a reason for that. I had a special friend visiting from Texas this past weekend -a guy I met on my recent trip to Mali. Yes, I met a guy in Mali. How cool is that.

So I was "stuck inside" all weekend with a wonderful guy. How could I complain about the first blizzard?

And...he helped me shovel my snow. But he left on Monday afternoon.

So now I will say - this snow, these blizzards, the cold weather...

**tulip** · 02-10-2010, 06:53 AM

I guess you didn't notice the snow and cold, huh?

**pfunk12** · 02-10-2010, 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by tulip

I guess you didn't notice the snow and cold, huh?

Didn't even realize it was snowing outside.

It was a blast for him. He hadn't seen snow like this in 25 years - since he lived in Iowa.

**ny biker** · 02-10-2010, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by 7rider

Sounds like us (DH is pushing the big five oh this year..shhhh...don't know if you noticed that AARP mailing in the picture of our mortar and pestle to grind coffee a few posts back).

DH is a native New Yorker, I'm from Connecticut. We both seem to have acquired a rep in our neighborhood as the crazy shovelers...Out there several times during a storm, not content until the driveway is bare pavement. Our neighbors (Texans, Columbia, India, and who knows where else) are content to brush off snow and drive over the piles, leaving the driveway(s) uncleared and ultimately, icy and treacherous. We have new neighbors from New Jersey who seem to be kindred spirits....at least in snow removal. Our friend John (a native of HI) has a son in college in Colorado. The son has learned the hard way the necessity of adequate shoveling after a storm this year!

Is that why I'm one of the few people in my courtyard who clears snow down to the pavement? I thought it was just a snow-specific form of OCD (snOCD).

BTW it only took me about 5 minutes to clear the snow away from the fire hydrant yesterday, but 5 minutes could be life-or-death in an emergency. So don't forget your local fire hydrants when you head back out with your shovels.

**Cataboo** · 02-10-2010, 07:10 AM

My driveway seems to be filling itself back in with snow. The deck is now chest high with snow.

**ny biker** · 02-10-2010, 07:19 AM

Snow plows have been told to pull off the roads in Montgomery, Prince Georges and Frederick Counties due to white-out conditions.

Everybody stay home! It's too dangerous to be out in the roads, whether in vehicles or on foot.

**Zen** · 02-10-2010, 07:26 AM

I told you there was gonna be a second storm

I'm afraid to go outside for fear Jack Nicholson will be out there chasing me around the yard with an axe.

Owlice, what's going on in that photo? Did the cat freeze to something (like Ralphie's friend)?

**aicabsolut** · 02-10-2010, 07:32 AM

It is really blowing out there! I hope I can make it to NC on Friday. At least one of the exits from my garage was mostly cleared after the first snow. I am missing my 4x4. It got me through one snow storm about this bad and one bad ice storm. AWD is nice, but the low gear 4WD was better.

**Cataboo** · 02-10-2010, 07:42 AM

I got my sidewalk down to bare concrete - my driveway, I know my car has all wheel drive, so I wasn't ocd about getting it down to the bare pavement. Especially when I knew the snow plow was going to be coming through and burying everything I dug out repeatedly. There was a couple icy patches, but not really.

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