Quote Originally Posted by 7rider View Post
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.