re: How much of a pain is shoveling snow?

It sucks. Trying to figure out where to throw it that's somewhat out of the way. If its gotten icy by the ground/ driveway makes it worse. We don't have it everyday by a long shot by 4 or 5x a year maybe.

I got sentenced to Buffalo NY from about Mid February to the 1st of May. It snowed hard and damn near every day. No one cared. They didn't loose a beat. I was terrified.

Give me the heat and humidity..

I have a battery operated snow blower, works fine unless it's the heavy wet snow. Then I have to shovel. We have blue stone sidewalks so it tends to melt quickly on that

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I grew up in the snow. Shoveling snow before school so your parents can get their cars out is not pleasant.

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Same here….My parents were originally from Baton Rouge and after several years of bad winters, we move back to BR. As hot as it is, I would rather shovel.

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To be fair, if you live somewhere that gets a large amount of snow today you’re likely going to own a legit snowblower. They’re also more likely as a community to be able to handle it.

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Also, with too much snow more than likely most roads may be closed and some businesses may do work from home instead of having you ice skate to the office in your car or break out the snow tires or chains.

At this point in the summer, I would much rather shovel snow than shovel 110-120 degree heat indexes even though the most snow I have ever seen was a light dusting that lasted for just a few hours and most of it melted because the ground was too warm.

Now I do recall in 1989 the record cold and snow that year. But if memory serves me well we got down to the single digits and some waterways did freeze, but a few days later we were back to shorts weather.

I have shoveled snow once. It snowed 19 inches in SW Virginia and I had to shovel a path of about 30 yards to get my truck out. I had one person helping.

I do not wish to ever do that again. It gets old, fast.

It does if the roof collapses due to the heavy snot on top of it. Remember Met stadium when part of the roof collapsed?

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The southern version of this is dad buying a riding mower once you move out. Having to push a mower to cut grass for 9 months, 6 of those when it’s 95, is horrible. Dad said I ain’t gonna do that shite and got a rider.

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I was the youngest kid. My dad’s favorite response was that if it wasn’t for lawn mowing and snow shoveling, he wouldn’t have had so many kids.

It's not bad. I mean when it's real cold out (i.e. below zero) no need to shovel snow because there is no snow (coming down, if it does it's light and flakey)

Usually when it's really snowy it's warm outside (20+degrees)....it's not bad if it's a manageable snow load.

However, if it dumps thick, wet snow...and it's more than let's say 6" or so. You have to either shovel throughout the day if you can...or have a four wheeler with a plow attachment or a snow blower. If you have either of the mechanical options it's a cinch.

I'd much rather do what I did in Alaska with snow than dealing the 100+ heat index and mowing grass (even on my riding lawn mower)...but then again, I don't have to deal with breakup season or ice like I did in Alaska.