Well, that's not exactly true.
I had gone out to meet my training group on Wednesday evening. One beer only, because it was my first drink in a month and the weather was turning crappy. It was a slow slog home, taking double the time it normally might.
While it looked like I was Han Solo jumping into hyperspace on my drive, there was only about one-quarter of an inch actually on the ground. So I didn't worry about it too too much.
Yesterday morning however was a different story. About another 7 and 3/4 inches of snow had fallen and was still steadily coming down. No one was going anywhere. All schools had closed before 06:00. 710 had tried to let Shep out who went off the porch into a drift that completely covered him. This was not going to be fun.
I finally got motivated to start clearing the drive and walks. But to get to the snowblower, I'd have to shovel enough to be able to pull out my car to get to said blower. That would take me 40 minutes of heart attack inducing work.
Even WITH the snowblower, it would take me another two hours to clear our driveway. Places were so deep that this behemoth of a machine wasn't able to keep up or make it's way through on a first go-round. And we were running out of physical places to put the discarded snow.
Oh, it was also 17° but felt like 6° . F. Not C.
Oh, and from the time 710 let Shep out, there was now 2-3 additional inches of snow. Bother!
My first duty (hehehehe.....I said "duty") was to clear a path for Shep. But being the good Dad #2 that I am, I built him a motorway. And that was by hand, because you can't really do a snowblower on a lawn.
The rationale was even if we could get him out to walk, there were no clear streets or sidewalks that didn't have snow higher than himself. And he LOVED it. He has gotten zoomies a few times there.
Since the blower was fully gassed up, I took it down our side of the street and did everyone's walk. I'd like to say it was altruistic but in reality, I needed to be able to get Shep to walk. Someone else did the entire length of the other side of the street.
I did end up clearing another 2" shortly before sunset. But it had seemingly stopped snowing, so......yay.
....and just an FYI - no one has plowed the street(s). The next 10 days are going to be cold to super cold. So......yay.
Song by: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
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