Weather Thread - 1/16 to 1/18

FDWxMan

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If I do it now and and the freezing drizzle builds up on the driveway, won’t that just make it a sheet of ice? My Snow blower can bust through some hard snow pretty easily, don’t like doing it but won’t have an icy driveway if I wait?
Yeah probably, but mine was already pretty icy, and I don't want to have to work in the wind tomorrow. So it's probably going to be a pain either way.
 
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Rods79

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If I do it now and and the freezing drizzle builds up on the driveway, won’t that just make it a sheet of ice? My Snow blower can bust through some hard snow pretty easily, don’t like doing it but won’t have an icy driveway if I wait?

I was going to wait for morning, but we had the better part of 6” out there, 1’+ already at the end of the drive from plows, and I didn’t want to snowblow those icebergs. Am I going to wipe out on the drive tomorrow? Probably, if I go outside, but now I don’t have to.
 

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I did my driveway this afternoon. Really nice old guy down the street has a lawn tractor with a snow blade on the front. He is so nice he did the sidewalks for half the block today. Of course he decided to stop at my driveway and left a 3 foot snowdrift in my driveway and on my sidewalk. Un-f@cking believable.
 

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Yeah probably, but mine was already pretty icy, and I don't want to have to work in the wind tomorrow. So it's probably going to be a pain either way.
this is why I didn't become a weatherman.
 

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I did my driveway this afternoon. Really nice old guy down the street has a lawn tractor with a snow blade on the front. He is so nice he did the sidewalks for half the block today. Of course he decided to stop at my driveway and left a 3 foot snowdrift in my driveway and on my sidewalk. Un-f@cking believable.
You should egg his house
 
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Didn't seem to amount to much here, maybe 4" so far. Suppose I could go out and shovel some, Maybe sidewalk tonight and driveway tomorrow. Sloth day, still in pajamas so not sure how my neighbors feel about me in pajamas and Sorel boots. Hell, after dark, **** it.
 

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I did my driveway this afternoon. Really nice old guy down the street has a lawn tractor with a snow blade on the front. He is so nice he did the sidewalks for half the block today. Of course he decided to stop at my driveway and left a 3 foot snowdrift in my driveway and on my sidewalk. Un-f@cking believable.
Probably a Hok fan...
 
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