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Re: Generator Time!!! said by alkizmo:I used to be all excited about using my snow blower until we got our Nor'easter in December.
You mean the whole 18 inches?? That's nothing. You Montrealers don't know real snow.  |
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 alkizmo
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kudos:1 | said by Bob:You mean the whole 18 inches?? That's nothing. You Montrealers don't know real snow.
Snow drifts making banks over 2-3 feet.
City plow locking me in twice in a row.
Point is: It's no fun.
And I'm sorry Bob, but I don't see how New Jersey gets much more snow on average. |
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 SwedishRiderRider on the StormPremium
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Connecticut
kudos:1 | said by alkizmo:Snow drifts making banks over 2-3 feet.
I would have gladly taken 2-3 foot drifts over the 5 footers I just had to deal with. |
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I had to clear the junk left by the second pass of the snowplow and I got quite a workout, even with the snowblower. I don't know how people in poor health can get by if they cannot afford a snowblower. My former neighbor in Iowa is in poor health and he finds himself shoveling out. If I still lived there, I would use my snowblower on his driveway and mow his lawn in the summer and I would not charge him. He has severe asthma and he can barely breathe (a phone call lasts five minutes before he ends up using the albuterol). I, myself am not in the greatest health either as I have a mild case of cerebral palsy and I'm overweight and I could not do it with the shovel. I don't want my mother shoveling as she is at risk of a heart attack (female over 50).
I had to clear out the mailbox cluster AGAIN!!! If you don't clear it out, return to sender, undeliverable as addressed. I don't get much mail at the house as I have a PO Box but the occasional important piece of mail comes to the house. There is four mailboxes on the cluster, two for our duplex and two for the neighboring duplex (which is owned by a different landlord).
That snowblower was the best $500 I've ever spent. I bought it on layaway in the summer of 2009 when Sears was getting rid of the previous winter's inventory. I brought it home in a compact car and damaged it on the way. I had to replace a part on it that set me back $12 (a plastic clip that holds the cables). If I could do it over again, I would have gotten a larger one but this one will do.
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New Jersey | reply to alkizmo
My point is that your all-time record-setting Nor'easter in December was no big deal. |
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said by alkizmo:said by Bob:You mean the whole 18 inches?? That's nothing. You Montrealers don't know real snow.
Snow drifts making banks over 2-3 feet. City plow locking me in twice in a row. Point is: It's no fun. And I'm sorry Bob, but I don't see how New Jersey gets much more snow on average. Depends where you were. Montreal got over 50-cm (~20 inches) while area's like where I am got over 30 inches from the same storm (spread over 4 days).
The banks all around me around are about 7.5 feet high. I wish I had 2-3' snow banks. But at least it wasn't -40C when I had to shovel. Was only -27C, *phew*. That -40 stings.
BTW, schools didn't close here. Ontario closes their schools for 10cm.  |
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