I recall the year of the insane snows. About halfway thru, the piles of snow at the sides of the driveway were 5 or 6 feet tall. And the bases had spread to the point where they were encroaching on the driveway.
So we had to go and *move* the heaps farther away. So we wound up shoveling some snow 3 times by the time stuff started to melt.
That was also the year of icicles that not only reached to the ground, but were wrist thick or thicker by the time they got there. Dangerous game was running in, hitting them hard enough to break them and running out before the falling pieces could nail you.
I was not allowed to make money by shoveling roofs (the build-ups were bad enough to make that *necessary* on many houses. But a number of my friends were doing it.
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Date: 2022-12-07 05:34 pm (UTC)So we had to go and *move* the heaps farther away. So we wound up shoveling some snow 3 times by the time stuff started to melt.
That was also the year of icicles that not only reached to the ground, but were wrist thick or thicker by the time they got there. Dangerous game was running in, hitting them hard enough to break them and running out before the falling pieces could nail you.
I was not allowed to make money by shoveling roofs (the build-ups were bad enough to make that *necessary* on many houses. But a number of my friends were doing it.