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Last Updated: Dec 14, 2005 08:45 PM
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Wed - December 14, 2005 at 08:45 PM inOur house is under water!
Thanks to the storm this week, our entire house is under water, about six inches of it. Worse, it might not go away until March or April. And our insurance isn't likely to do anything about it!
Fortunately, it isn't liquid, but the frozen fluffy stuff. So as long as the furnace works, we're perfectly content to live a few months "under water." This was the first significant snowstorm of the season, and even though it was only about six inches, it was really heavy stuff. A heart-attack snow, so-named because of all the heart attacks it creates when Grandpa decides to shovel the driveway by hand instead of hiring the neighbor kid to do it with a snowblower. I think I'm one of the last two or three people in the entire state who clears his driveway by hand (that is, with a shovel). We had a service for a number of years, when I was traveling all the time, and later I tried using a snowblower for one season. The snowblower just wasn't worth it. It was loud, stinky (two-cycle engine), hard to get started, and not even all that much faster than the shovel. Our driveway isn't that large. So every time it snows, I have the chance to get a nice workout--I worked up a good sweat tonight--and listen to all the neighbors curse as the gloppy wet snow clogs their discharge chutes. Posted at 08:45 PM | Permalink | | | |
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