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Re: Hello Decomp
ribit:
Re: “...happy blizzard old man”Thank you sir, and Many Happy Lightning Strikes to you!
What we had wasn't exactly a blizzard. Over the course of 18 hours, we had 5 inches fall. The places I hadn't shoveled already had 7 inches, so what's there is maybe a foot deep. But I've never really dealt with heavy, sticky snow before and that's what this is. Lemme tell ya, it's the worst. (Just kidding. Ice is the worst. This is the second worst, just ahead of raining frogs. Oh, sorry.) You get a shovel full of this crap, give it a throw, and only half the snow leaves the shovel. You turn the shovel upside down and stand there looking at it stupidly because hardly any of the snow falls out. So you bang it on the ground a few times and only half of THAT falls out. After a while you give up on it and just deal with a shovel that's only got half the capacity and about five times the weight it oughta have. I'm not complainin', but it kinda tires you out after a while, and that's just talking about the back deck.
It reminds me a lot of wet corn starch, this stuff. If you don't know what wet corn starch is like, go get yourself some and stick the Queen's foot in it. Live a little.
I've read that sticky snow is really warm and has a very high water content. If the temperature goes up, it will melt fairly quickly - but there's a downside in that at night, what's melted will turn to ice, and you don't want that. So I have to deal with the driveway soon. There's only 5 inches, but I'm going to use the snow blower this time instead of hand shoveling. 5 inches is about where I draw the line on hand shoveling anyway....
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