marciemi
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Um, yeah Mac - that's what happened. Actually the extension cords. I was doing the small walk from the drive to the porch and didn't realize one of the extension cords had gotten onto the sidewalk. Kind of hard to see since there were 6 inches of snow on top of it!
Anyways, it took about 2 seconds for the two cords (one extension and one going to the lights) to completely wrap themselves around the bottom of the snowblower (luckily the old, smaller one!). Had to unplug all the lights and turn off the snowblower and turn it upside down and manually unwrap it all. It had gone around about 15 times total in that 2 seconds. And sliced one of the cords in half. I did get it all out and - well, we won't be using that extension cord again!
The other cord looked okay (scuffed), but I'm not going to plug it in in the snow! I tried to just pull that batch of lights down, but it's all frozen in.
The snowblower wouldn't work then (of course), but I waited an hour and tried again and it was okay. I'm guessing we got about 6 inches of snow, but it's blowing like crazy. I've shoveled the same 1/3 of the driveway about 5 times and it's still probably another foot deep in places again. And when you shovel, you have to go ALL the way across to the other side (and ours is a 3 car garage/driveway) because if I shovel that way, A - it will all just blow right back in my face, and B - even if I get it on the snowbanks, it'll just eventually come back down with the wind.
The snow is this stupid light, powdery stuff we've been getting all month. That you can't keep on the banks or the shovel. I swear, I'm about to reconnect my water, take a hose out there, and hose down the snowbanks so the snow stays put! Of course then they'd be ice banks and the first time I hit them with my car it wouldn't be pretty!
Hope you're enjoying your foot plus of snow Mac! I've shoveled too many times today. I hereby delegate the rest to my sons and DH who haven't been much help at all! DH claimed it was snowing "too hard" for him to shovel before leaving for work
and of course the bus was on time today so the younger two had to catch it before having time to help! Matt's gone out twice with me so we'll cut him some slack too!
Well on the plus side
I guess we're pretty much guaranteed a white Christmas, eh?
Anyways, it took about 2 seconds for the two cords (one extension and one going to the lights) to completely wrap themselves around the bottom of the snowblower (luckily the old, smaller one!). Had to unplug all the lights and turn off the snowblower and turn it upside down and manually unwrap it all. It had gone around about 15 times total in that 2 seconds. And sliced one of the cords in half. I did get it all out and - well, we won't be using that extension cord again!
The other cord looked okay (scuffed), but I'm not going to plug it in in the snow! I tried to just pull that batch of lights down, but it's all frozen in.The snowblower wouldn't work then (of course), but I waited an hour and tried again and it was okay. I'm guessing we got about 6 inches of snow, but it's blowing like crazy. I've shoveled the same 1/3 of the driveway about 5 times and it's still probably another foot deep in places again. And when you shovel, you have to go ALL the way across to the other side (and ours is a 3 car garage/driveway) because if I shovel that way, A - it will all just blow right back in my face, and B - even if I get it on the snowbanks, it'll just eventually come back down with the wind.
The snow is this stupid light, powdery stuff we've been getting all month. That you can't keep on the banks or the shovel. I swear, I'm about to reconnect my water, take a hose out there, and hose down the snowbanks so the snow stays put! Of course then they'd be ice banks and the first time I hit them with my car it wouldn't be pretty!
Hope you're enjoying your foot plus of snow Mac! I've shoveled too many times today. I hereby delegate the rest to my sons and DH who haven't been much help at all! DH claimed it was snowing "too hard" for him to shovel before leaving for work
and of course the bus was on time today so the younger two had to catch it before having time to help! Matt's gone out twice with me so we'll cut him some slack too! Well on the plus side
I guess we're pretty much guaranteed a white Christmas, eh?
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