sore
Last Wednesday while I was in XXXXXXX XXXX, XX, there was a pretty good snowfall here, I instructed my wife to leave the car at the bottom of the driveway and only shovel the necessary part. This she did, leaving five sixths of the driveway left for me to shovel when I got back Friday evening.
So that took me about eighty minutes late Friday night. Early Saturday morning I completed the job as I had run out of steam before I could finish. Then it started to snow at around 11:00AM on Saturday. It was also very windy with wind at 30kph and gusts up to 50kph so this meant for lots of drifting. So Saturday evening I shovelled again, about one hundred minutes of shovelling while it continued to snow. Then on Sunday morning I shovelled again, another eighty minutes or so, to remove all of the snow that had fallen though the night. Finally, after supper yesterday I had to dig out our second car, the one I use to get to work, it had been buried by all of the snow that had fallen since I first left on February 23rd.
I am sore. For those of you who have never had to deal with snow like this the best equivalent I can give you is to ask you to imagine taking a shovel of sand from one pile and throw it so you make another pile. Repeat this about every three to six seconds for eighty, ninety or one hundred minutes, three times in two days.
5 comments:
Can say i have had to deal with that amount of snow, and possibly never will.
Hope you got a good massage!
screw that noise. i like that it only snows here like once every four years.
yes and when you liveo n a dirt road and they plow the end of your driveway with snow AND a half inch of the road..it IS sand I am shoveling!
Me too. I'm all shovelled out. It would be more fun if jello fell from the sky during winter. At least then when you shovel, it wiggles, and the kids would love it!
My gosh, I am lucky to live in a part of North America which very seldomly is afflicted with lage snow falls. I have had to plow 2-5inches of snow for the City I live in as a city employee, and lay down many truck loads of road sand (not really sand - more like small pebbles). Never see that much snow except in the mountains.
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