After the Thursday snow debacle, we spent a lot of Friday cleaning out. The "new" asphalt driveway is great, because you can get right down to pavement. Shoveling at this house involves not only the driveway, but also the front sidewalk (some confusion about whether that's REQUIRED by local ordinance) and front steps. At a full story's worth of steps, that's not a trivial matter. Then there's the ancient drain at the curb, and the catchbasin at the other end of our frontage, so that if there is rain after the snow neither our basement nor the entire street will be flooded out. (Ah, civic responsibility!)
Saturday was a great day and then Saturday night into Sunday it snowed all over again: light fluffy stuff, then sleet, then rain. We shoveled it out about three times, trying to keep up and prevent the freeze-up.
I still ache from that as well as the bruises I got from trying to unstick my wipers in the Thursday storm. According to our public works director, we've had more snow already this season than all of last season. Welcome home, indeed!
Posted by otto0114 at December 19, 2007 09:00 PM