Shoveling can raise your heart rate, I'm curious to see if there are more heart attack after digging out now that so many are vaxxed and boosted. If you got the shot, pay a neighborhood kid to shovel for you.
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Yup, piles of fluffy dust. If temps go into high 20s though it becomes "Oh... Fuck!"
I honestly don't get it. I come from Indiana, near Lake Michigan (where a lot of snow did NOT fall). Now I live in NH, where snow fall happens every year, multiple times a year (again, not what I grew up knowing). I made room to fit my cars in my barn (after bolstering the supports to bear the additional load). My snowblower sits right at the entry way to my barn. Whenever it snows, I have the cars waiting in the barn, I snowblow my driveway, I usually help snowblow in front of my neighbors houses where the plow walls them in. I expend very little energy of my own. I drive a Mid-engine Rear wheel drive sports car with studded snow tires on and have never gotten stuck. What I don't get, is that people who grew up around snow, have no idea how to deal with it (on their driveways), and they have no idea how to drive (during the first snowfall). The New Englanders are a cold hard people. They go to work sick unless they are unable to move, then Covid hits, and they all mask up and get vaccinated immediately (well, certain places in New England). I realized after covid started, that as a conservative here, I have my work cut out for me.
The older ones still are. However, get within higher urban densities you're mostly dealing with their kids, grandkids, or out of state transplants. They aren't tough nor were they raised tough. And with that most of the common sense stuff you do when a storm approaches was minimized, forgotten, or not taught at all.