Dig it?
Just had a dandy storm here in Wisconsin as many of you already know.
I'm amused by the phenomenon of digging out. It forces everyone into a surge of manual labor up and down the street as far as the eye can see. All of us fat beer-and-cheese-stuffed Midwesterners leave our cushy modern life for a couple hours to shovel snow. Even the folks with snow blowers don't have a picnic. The first shovel full when completely buried seems pointless, but you eventually make it to the end of the driveway. Then the plows come and barricade the end of your clean driveway with the heavy road snow, and you get to go right back out and chip away at the wall of plow leavin's. If rush hour beats the plows, you get to watch folks stuck up and down the street digging themselves out. This always seems hopeless when it's you who's stuck, but one way or another, everyone gets out (sometimes days later).
Then maybe it snows the next day and the day after. A good string of storms will turn a driveway into a tunnel with snow mountains as tall as you on either side.
Of course it eventually melts, and all the hard work disappears down the storm sewer.
I'm amused by the phenomenon of digging out. It forces everyone into a surge of manual labor up and down the street as far as the eye can see. All of us fat beer-and-cheese-stuffed Midwesterners leave our cushy modern life for a couple hours to shovel snow. Even the folks with snow blowers don't have a picnic. The first shovel full when completely buried seems pointless, but you eventually make it to the end of the driveway. Then the plows come and barricade the end of your clean driveway with the heavy road snow, and you get to go right back out and chip away at the wall of plow leavin's. If rush hour beats the plows, you get to watch folks stuck up and down the street digging themselves out. This always seems hopeless when it's you who's stuck, but one way or another, everyone gets out (sometimes days later).
Then maybe it snows the next day and the day after. A good string of storms will turn a driveway into a tunnel with snow mountains as tall as you on either side.
Of course it eventually melts, and all the hard work disappears down the storm sewer.