What it's like: the snowy driveway edition

[mrissa]

Dear Newspaper Deliverers,

Thank you. Thank the hell out of you. By driving up and down our driveway -- by making multiple tries at it when you failed -- you have created a compacted layer of snow just at the steepest, most difficult part. Chipping away at this for the last hour has availed me very little.

Nolove,
mrissaI want to amend what I said

Comments

[songwind]

*hugs* I hate it when other people do thoughtless crap that makes life hard.

Because I'm a man with an engineering background, I am incapable of not offering suggestions. :) We have a tool that looks like a hoe, but with the head on straight instead of bent. It also has a nice rake-or-spade-length handle for good leverage. It makes ice/packed snow removal much simpler. If you don't have something like that, I heatily endorse it. Maybe if you could confound the forces of snowiness faster you would have less opportunities to fall.

I like my mrissa time, but prefer to not get it in hospitals.

[jhetley]

I have an old ice chisel from the times before augers created ice-fishing holes. It's a heavy chisel welded to the end of a steel pipe, and it works wonders on even 2" of ice-storm residue.

[ksumnersmith]

I'd be frightened of Mrissa using such a thing for her ice, though. Falling on a heavy chisel welded to the end of a steel pipe seems like it would be ... unpleasant. (But I wouldn't mind having such a thing to help me chip away the ice pile from behind my car this evening ...)

[jhetley]

Well, that iron pipe puts the sharp edge about seven feet away from you. Generally deployed in a sliding motion, wedging in under the ice and lifting, although you can lift and drop it straight down on particularly recalcitrant areas. Considerable momentum.

[mrissa]

Yah, except it's still a big heavy iron pipe and can fall, if not controlled, on my arm, or twisting under my arm as I fall on my arm, or etc. I don't think I'll be seeking one out. markgritter might.

[mrissa]

On the nosey.

[songwind]

Not only is it a hoe-like tool that we have chosen to use on ice, it's an ice hoe!

[mrissa]

I like my mrissa time, but prefer to not get it in hospitals.

This is extremely generous of you considering how much closer your house is to the hospital than to my house.

[songwind]

That's me, always the nice one.