My driveway didn't get done and probably wont for a while. My truck made it out and now I have tire tracks to follow. I had to shovel outside my business and my god was it cold.
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Huge props to your wife for getting in to work to take care of others!!
I clear the drive before leaving since the tire tracks will pack in the snow and will be difficult to remove later. These will get slick.
You might as well wait until the wind slows down on Sunday morning... it won't do any good.
10 minutes with a shovel takes care of the tracks.
Idk. I just know **** cleaning snow at like 6 in the morning. I ain’t doing that ****
Not necessarily stupid to clear the drive if not leaving. With the blizzard conditions, blowing snow can make the top drift layers hard and thus more difficult to remove. The other thing is that if you’re expecting any deliveries and you want a clear drive/path for them.
I'm not planning to fire up the snow blower until Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. Snow may be done but the wind still will blow it around and I'm not going to be going anywhere until Saturday anyways so no thanks to going out in -35 wind chill right now just to watch my work go to waste when the wind blows the snow back in later.
It's not nice..............but it's far from this^^^^.
If you are going somewhere dress like you are walking and you will be fine.
It's not always as easy as 10 minutes with a shovel, at least for me. Usually it's packed so hard/becomes ice so my snow shovel won't even get under it/break it up. I prefer clearing a lane so I don't have to deal with that later.
Went to bed with about 3" of snow on the ground. Woke up to a pretty much clear driveway aside from a small drift against the garage door and a pile from the plow. Wind cleared the rest of the concrete.
Poor guy that has his house facing west at the end of the street is going to have a bad day. Wind is taking all the snow from our street and just piling it on their front yard and driveway.
Poor guy that has his house facing west at the end of the street is going to have a bad day. Wind is taking all the snow from our street and just piling it on their front yard and driveway.
We only got like an inch of snow so we’ll see how bad it gets in Waukee.
Furnace has been running constantly but blower doesn’t seem to be kicking in. Temp trying to maintain but starting to drop slowly in house. On the list for Wyckoff but they’re swamped and apparently have several techs out with the flu. It’s been nice knowing y’all.
Furnace has been running constantly but blower doesn’t seem to be kicking in. Temp trying to maintain but starting to drop slowly in house. On the list for Wyckoff but they’re swamped and apparently have several techs out with the flu. It’s been nice knowing y’all.
Went out about half hour ago and did our 3 car drive and sidewalk in about 15 min. If you don’t have a good pusher you’re doing it wrong.
Well, if you live in an area where I do, the wind bends and will make a drift waist high or better if you wait, then add in the dirt that gets picked up from the field, because I live on the edge of town and you will have a rock hard waist high drift if you wait too long.
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Haven't touched mine yet. My wife is driving home from Champaign, Il now. I told her to give me an hour notice and I'll get out there.
With as much traffic as my driveway gets. I try to keep it clean but its basically impossible. Always have a snow pack until it warms up and I can try to bust the ice up the best I can.
Need mittens in this weather. Optimal is a pair of thinner gloves with mittens over top to keep from losing heat if you need to remove the mittens to do something that requires dexterity. But no pair of gloves will ever match a good pair of mittens.
Hate those packed down tire tracks. Absolutely loathe them.
Put on a pair of rubber gloves before your regular gloves. Will really keep the hands warmer.
