By early Friday afternoon the snow was well over a foot deep on the drive, deeper on the ramps sloping to the road and deeper again where the city plow had been. Not the deepest, of course, but given I'd already cleared what had fallen overnight, more than 30 cm is a bit much in four hours when 21 cm was predicted for a 24 hour spell.
It would have been difficult but manageable in two or three shifts, depending how much more fell.
We just made a start on the really deep part when the guy next door carried on pushing his snowblower beyond his path to clear the deeper stuff and our task was done in one go.
Even if I could afford a snowblower, I wouldn't feel comfortable operating it. Too many knobs and levers for my liking.
Unfortunately, that wasn't it. The snow continued into the evening and the bastard plow passed again, depositing its ridge. The blowing snow began to fill the drive and blew up against the ridge instead of out into the streeet and away.
So we were back outside again clearing deep drifts and breaking down the ridge.
Bastard plow went by yet again later. There really is no need for overplowing like this. The road was more than clear enough for the traffic the street sees.
I just cleared the ridge this morning. Not a big one - which shows how little the need actually was to plow again - but it was becoming compacted.
Oh...it was minus 26 when I was out there.
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