Here are some in-progress pictures:
It's pretty hard to tell, but it was several feet deep in places - and no longer the fluffy snow that fell, but well-compressed and incredibly heavy. How do I know? Well, once it came down, the front of the house looked like this:
After an hour and a half of breaking-up, shoveling and snow-throwing, I had restored garage access:
and it was time to tackle the front steps:
In turn they too were tamed:
and I went around the back to take over from Exile #3 who, with (largely moral) support from E5N1, was fighting her way towards the basement bulkhead door - which was similarly buried.
I'm even more pleased having realised just how much weight of snow was on the roof to have it cleared, but - wow - that was a lot of work and we still haven't done anything about the deck or the shed roof.
Holy moly, you guys got a lot of snow! We...haven't.
ReplyDeleteYou'd probably be enjoying it more than we are - although in your current condition, perhaps the dry roads are better. That was a big day of clearing snow for me - even though it was a day when none had fallen (from the sky at least).
DeleteSeveral times this weekend I've mentioned seeing the cherry-picker in this posting with the obligatory "we've been lucky, they have not" perspective. A friend of ours lives in Stow MA, which got 36" the first time and more since, and we both independently decided it should be renamed Snow.
ReplyDeleteThe roof is covered again now, but it's good to know that it doesn't have all that weight on it again. I'm glad we didn't get more from this latest storm and certainly have a lot of sympathy for those further south who have been slammed again.
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