Why I don't live in the mountains of colorado.

[sttimothy]

Here's a chat snippet from the guy I was staying with. He's gotten 7-ish feet of snow last week.

[tim's friend]: I have estimated that we have shoveled approximately 45.5 tons of snow!!
[tim's friend]: that is going on the average of 1 cubic foot weighing about 15 pounds... and that doesnt include the roof.
StTimothee: how much is a shovel of snow?
[tim's friend]: dont know... about 7 pounds or so... depends, they vary.
[tim's friend]: the deck is about 1000 sq/f ... at 6 feet of snow ... is 90000 cubic feet... and i have shoveled a 60 foot path about three feet wide through 5 feet of snow in the driveway... uhg.
StTimothee: so somewhere between 2 and 3 shovel scoops = 1 cubic foot...
[tim's friend]: er... 6000 cubic feet at 15lb/cft is 90000 lbs... not feet
[tim's friend]: yeah... that is about average
[tim's friend]: i think i was more at 2 shovels per foot... sometime 1 shovel if the snow was fluffy at the top
[tim's friend]: so ... 6180 cubic feet at probably 3 scoop avg = 18,540 shovel scoops
[tim's friend]: that would be ... 18,540 scoops over 4 days = 4,635 scoops/day at about 6 hours a day = 772.5 scoops/hour = 12 7/8 scoops / minute = 1/5 scoop per second