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With the winter weather just starting for the season. And today's snow storm hitting from the plains to the Northeast....Please remember to take your time when shoveling. Some of us here are at or near retirement age (or want to be ) and it takes a few storms to get the old muscles back into shoveling shape. Don't over exert yourself.


Also, I am hearing about 6'-8' drifts of snow and power outages. One thing that caught some of by surprise last year in New England was a few cases of CO poisoning of people in their homes. Some of these new high efficiency gas fireplaces and heaters have a near the ground low temp exhaust. In some cases a snow drift can block them up. We had a couple of bad incidences up here last year. Make sure your home's heat producing systems can breath.

OK, Fire Marshall Bill hat off.

Enjoy the snow,
---Nailer---

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Nailer - you sure you don't do my job for a living?

Excellent words of advice.

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Just read a report of some places getting 15' drifts.

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y'all be careful out there... or come down and visit us in AZ!

Lawrence

15'drifts?

We had 60' waves here 60 feet!

on the big Island (HAWAII) waves actually slopped over a seventy foot cliff

I bet those stoves are all going to be getting retrofits real soon. That is noting to wait on.

I am not near retirement and shoveling would kill me

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Mango
The land some where in the middle
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No snow near Tampa Bay, either...

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Not to hijack the thread, but please be careful if you have to drive anywhere in this stuff. This time of year you really need to follow the old Boy Scout motto and "BE PREPARED" for anything.

As most of you know, I do a LOT of driving between Denver and Wyoming. Several mountain passes and lots of lonely stretches of highway where theres no cell phone signal. I always carry lots of survival gear in the truck, and I make sure the wife has much of the same gear in her car. Fleece and wool blankets, flashlight, 1rst aid kit, a couple of MRE's, knife, shovel, oil antifreeze and windshield fluid for the car. In my truck I also carry a sleeping bag and pad, tools, axe, 3 flashlights, small tire pump, extra parka skarf and gloves, fuel, tow strap, jumper cables, fire starter kit, flares & flare gun, and a few other neccesities. We also carry water but I don't normally keep it in the truck.

I've been real lucky so far. In all the thousands of miles I've racked up, I've only tapped the 1rst aid kit twice for minor cuts when boating, and the tools and flashlights came in handy on a cold night up in Casper. The tow strap, shovel and flares helped me to pull a couple of stranded girls in their sports car out of a ditch one cold snowy day. Other than that, most of the gear remains unused, but just having it lends a level of confidence in my travels.

One other thing I make sure to do, is to keep an eye on the weather, both TV forecast and phone calls to the state's DOT. Did you know that in every state, a simple call to 511 will get you straight to that state's DOT for road closure and conditions. I can call while I'm on the road to find out if the next stretch of hyw is closed, slick or if chain laws are in effect.

My best to all! Stay safe and warm. I'll be hitting the road again tonight.

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I used to think shoveling show was an olympic event, ow I do the bare minimum! Mother nature brought it.........she can take it away!

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Number of years ago the partner and I responded to a call of an injured back. With nearly 18" of fresh, we figured it might be a shoveling - induced injury. What we did not anticipate is that the patient was a 92-year old male who had wrestled his snowblower around a hundred feet of walks.

His son, some 30 years younger, lived maybe two hundred feet up the alley, and I knew some of his grandkids from school. They lived within a mile.

Something dreadfully wrong in that situation.

Shovel, chicken grit, enclosed votive candles and a couple of blankets mandatory. Trail mix bars if you have water available and a flashlight, of course.

One item which will help with rescue if you get lost is a deck of cards. Deal a hand of solitaire and start playing. Did it ever take more than a few minutes before someone appeared and told you to play the red seven on the black eight?

Jeff, my yard fertilizer guy/snow removal guy will make it go away Very resonable, too.

Verna

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If you have a heart condition, let someone else do the shoveling. My paternal grandpa, died of a heart attack, while shoveling snow.

Jiggy

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I'm with you on this!! 4WD JD with a bucket is the only way to go, as far as I'm concerned.

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John

The difference between bucket and blade, if you have a clear area to push into, is night and day. I'm in the cold less than 1/3 the time I was when I worked with the bucket.

NOT a backblade, I might add.

Due to the layout of my driveway/parking area, nowhere to push. So, the bucket is the only way for me.

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