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Hello Rob!

** On Friday 23.01.26 - 08:11, you wrote:

 RM> I don't think my plow guy has been in for close to a week though. I went
 RM> out to dig my car out yesterday, major pain getting to it, and if he'd
 RM> been in in the past 4 days then it had grown a lot of new 3 foot drifts
 RM> since then.

Yep..  same here.. too much snow one day after the next.  I am so sick and  
tired of it.


 RM> Last night we got another 8 inches or so, probably closing in on about 5
 RM> feet of snow in the past week, and I destroyed a pair of admittedly very
 RM> old snowshoes trying to walk on top of 3" feet of snow to get water
 RM> rather than shovel a path down to a solid base.

How do snowshoes get destroyed?  Were they wood types? The modern ones seem  
so small and made out of plastic.


 AA>> Why not look to get a decent snow blower?  Surely that would take would
 AA>> be a good investment, and basically a necessity for country living.

 RM> A lot of the worst parts I clear snow from is up and down rough
 RM> bedrock hills which wouldn't work with a snow blower. The actual
 RM> driveway bits usually don't get that much snow since they are
 RM> flat enough it blows on past. On the hills today there was 2 to 3
 RM> feet of snow but on the driveway less than 1 foot..

But if you can't drive up to the cottage and leave the car out by the end of  
your lane, then you *do* have a lot of snow on the driveway!  :D   If not a  
snow blower, then how about an ATV that can be fitted with a push-blade?


 RM> I also don't want to get into anything too costly since I don't know how
 RM> many more years I'll spend the winter here. I've been having some
 RM> serious second thoughts this past week.

This kind of weather is UNLIKELY to occur multiple years in a row.  So..  
maybe you will be better off next year.


 RM> This is quite possibly the worst week for snow I've ever seen
 RM> here including the 13 years in the past when I was wintering
 RM> here all the time. It was on average colder back then and you'd
 RM> have the odd day or two of bad snow, but not 5 or 6 in a row..

I agree.. the total accumulation seems untypically high this season. However,  
the pile on the roof has not been as high as it has been just a couple years  
ago - I suppose the few milder days in January melted most of it.


 RM> Latest info now says it will hit -41c (-42f) Friday night.
 RM> That's actual, not wind chill temperature..

Yep.. we're in for a deep freeze over the weekend. I added some gasline anti- 
freeze to my truck.  I might consider wrapping the battery with a warmer  
while parked at the house during the day.

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  ../|ug

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