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Fri, Jan 26, 2007

Snowblower

Posted at 10:01 pm MST to Technology

It's the weekend in the Denver Metro area, so snow is predicted. Today was sunny. Tomorrow is not supposed to be. Last weekend they predicted an inch or two, and I got at least 6 at my house. This week they are predicting an inch or two...

At least, unless we get another actual blizzard, I will be feeling a bit less trapped. I came home to a nice surprise. My business partner Shawn and Robert from the office, bless them, spent the morning with shovels and a new snowblower widening the path from my house to the place in the road where I've been parking the truck.

Actually clearing my driveway would have required heavy equipment, or possibly high explosives: after days of thawing and re-freezing the drifts in my driveway are making a good attempt at replacing the glaciers that are being lost to global warming. If there were still mammoths around, they would be right at home.

The drifts are still more than a foot deep on each side of the path for most of its length, but having a path that is a few feet wide, instead of one snow-shovel-width, for a hundred fifty feet or so is much less claustrophobic. The wider path made it much easier to carry my luggage in from the truck. Also some groceries and more than a week of mail.

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